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Chuka ‘no’ shocka, Sir Keir declines – only Lamb remains as lawyer party leader candidate
But is former East Anglia employment partner actually being led to electoral slaughter?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 19 May
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Top QC in househusband U-turn as she tells young women lawyers to share domestic chores
Dinah Rose backtracks on advice to young women lawyers to find "someone to have dinner on the table"
Exposed: mysterious lawyer charting conquests in sex autobiography is ex-Herbert Smith and Clyde & Co
Exclusive: Twitter slip-up sees solicitor's identity uncovered by Legal Cheek following anonymous Mail Online article
Morning round-up: Monday 18 May
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Sheffield barrister that fled justice given four years for assaulting girl
Crimewatch alert led to arrest at Birmingham Airport of former St John’s Buildings lawyer
The Judge Rules: publicly listed law firms will mean even fewer training contracts
Gateley’s move this week closer to the door of the London Stock Exchange signals the advance of yet another factor law students and young lawyers will have to confront
University of Law and students in row over legality of obscene songs
Law school claims Town Police Clauses Act 1847 still applies -- students not so sure
City firms silent on whether they will follow PwC in ignoring A-level results
Big Four accountancy firm shocks recruitment market and stuns Square Mile law firms with its bid to boost diversity
Morning round-up: Friday 15 May
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Lawyer gets lawyered
Contract drafted by lawyer's child goes viral
Lawyer rugby tackles client in court to foil escape bid
Wallabies call-up must be next for a man who practises in one of the most exotic and remote parts of the world
‘Rappers may have it over judges,’ says Lord Neuberger after listening to Jay Z
Judicial bombshell -- Supreme Court supremo Lord Neuberger has been listening to Brooklyn's star hip-hop and gangsta geezer
Campaigners at war over Human Rights Act petition
Online bid to force a referendum has picked up nearly 200,000 signatures, but the experts reckon it’s counterproductive
Morning round-up: Thursday 14 May
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
5 ways to dodge work during your training contract — and still get retained
Pacing yourself is essential for a long and fruitful career: in a guest post an anonymous solicitor -- who writes the must-read Corporate Drone blog -- sets out the tricks
Research: sleep-starved barristers are court zombies
The profession is stressed out and depressed, according to the Bar Council’s own survey, with a fifth saying they would never recommend it as a career
Students back code for TC offers timetable — law firms don’t
Signs that City graduate recruitment departments are already moving towards a training contract free for all as the regulator ditches existing guidelines
Morning round-up: Wednesday 13 May
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This is what one chambers’ haul of pupillage applications looks like
A 40-member set in the Temple is swamped with pleas from wannabe barristers -- and it won’t be the only one