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Morning round-up: Friday 24 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Aussie law school boldly heads for space – but in wake of Sunderland trailblazers
University of Adelaide today takes its specialist module to the launch pad warning of fears that it’s not that lonely in space after all
Cambridge law grads are the biggest earners in the legal profession
Light blues outstrip ancient rivals Oxford by £7,000, while LSE comes second and even the Scots get a look in
Kennedy QC v Starkey in almighty Magna Carta bust up on this morning’s BBC radio
Lawyer and historian go hammer and tongs, while Twittersphere lambasts Law Society for dropping definite article clanger regarding the 800-year-old document
5 bad things about being a City lawyer that nobody tells you about
Anonymous London solicitor Corporate Drone goes where the graduate recruitment brochures definitely do not
Morning round-up: Thursday 23 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top judicial posts
Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders
Who insists on the poshest funerals? Yep, it’s the lawyers
Latest UK death research shows the legal profession beats bankers and generals by being keenest to splurge its way into the afterlife
Which Game of Thrones character is your law firm?
Maybe don't use these in a training contract application
Morning round-up: Wednesday 22 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur
Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police
Law degree student numbers rocket by nearly 20% despite still hard job market
Latest figures show no loss of appetite for law as undergraduate subject -- and women far outnumbering men on degree courses
Never mind Amal, the real barrister fashion story is Geoffrey Robertson QC
Bar fashion wars -- Doughty Street head takes on chambers colleague Amal Clooney
Morning round-up: Tuesday 21 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Need legal advice? Would you like chips with that?
Welsh based firm opt for Fish and Chip based advert to haul in the clients
City law firms retain more qualifying solicitors than before financial crash
There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking
Morning round-up: Monday 20 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom
It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting
Chris Grayling flunks politicians’ equivalent of a training contract interview
Wannabe lawyer and local council candidate Alex Cisneros uses graduate recruitment criteria to review last night’s performance by Justice Secretary at a constituency hustings meeting
An LPC grad has made a gangster film about paralegals
Harnessing the drudgery of life at the bottom of the legal food chain to launch an alternative career