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Law graduate flogs degree online in bid to clear university debts
Enterprising American attempts to cash in by flogging degree
Irwin Mitchell bucks trend by boosting trainee intake
Alternative business structure law firm ramps up recruitment by 37.5% while City players cut numbers
Kaplan Law School to close
Third largest player in England and Wales legal education market takes a nosedive after eight years in business
Professional bodies over-taxing solicitors to tune of £2.4 million, says top regulator
Practising fee remains steady despite tumbling Solicitor Regulation Authority costs, as Law Society wants a bigger slice of pie
Morning round-up: Tuesday 25 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Porn star flashes breasts at judge during video-link hearing
Criminal court judge left stunned as erotic actress-turned-escort enters her assets into evidence during court session
Law Society drops Lord Harley redaction clanger
Technology confounds solicitor profession chiefs as confidential elements of Blacker case are easily accessed
Solicitors Regulation Authority says sorry to Lord Harley for ‘causing distress’
"Harry Potter" lawyer receives written apology over lost file fiasco, but independent complaints body clears regulator of discrimination
Campaigners bid to block development plans that would ‘devastate’ Inner Temple library
Online petition launched, but so far signatures are sparse
Morning round-up: Monday 24 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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The best from below the line
BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%
Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats
Meek surrender or clever tactic? No one quite knows as lawyers suspend 52 day legal aid strike
Court boycott called off as "gesture of goodwill"
The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware
How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?
Solicitor struck off after fiddling train fares to pay LPC debts
Tribunal accepted young lawyer was under huge post-education financial pressure -- but fraud is fraud
Morning round-up: Friday 21 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
City firms fall over themselves to trumpet benefits of working one day-a-week from home
'Agile working' is the latest corporate law trend
Personal injury solicitor storms off football pitch to head-butt supporter
Regulator to investigate lawyer’s park footie behaviour after he pleaded guilty to GBH
Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’
But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game
Morning round-up: Thursday 20 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Working class hero leads strike against government legal aid cuts from the tee
Picket line or round of golf? Picket line or round of golf? That’ll be a round of golf, then …