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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Spotify Wrapped — law student edition
Which tracks make your playlist? 🎧
De Montfort law lecturer helps Team GB bag gold at World Dodgeball Championships
Competes in Canada 🤾
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Law student unwittingly asks Supreme Court justice for directions
Aspiring lawyer 'awestruck by Lord Briggs kindness'
TC applications, exams and volume of work among top sources of stress for law students
Exclusive research: Profession's wellbeing efforts branded 'performative' in Legal Cheek mental health survey
SQE: Students perform best in ethics and contract, but struggle with business and property
SRA report reveals average score ranges
National law firm signs SQE training deal with College of Legal Practice
First Browne Jacobson cohort starts next Autumn
Cleary Gottlieb boosts NQ rates by 14% to £160k
Early Xmas present 🎁
Tribunal clears former Law Society President of misconduct
Edwin Coe senior partner David Greene 'pleased to draw a line under the whole 10-year episode'
More firms commit to offering part-time training for disabled aspiring lawyers
Bates Wells, Browne Jacobson and Freeths latest to offer flexible opportunities
Weil bumps NQ solicitor rates to £165k in London
Effective 1 January 2023
England got its first woman solicitor 100 years ago this week
Carrie Morrison admitted on 18 December 1922
Multi-million pound funding boost for former Magic Circle lawyer’s deal visualising tool
Tim Follett hopes software will make lawyers look back in 'disbelief' at using PowerPoint
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
The Legal Cheek December Virtual Pupillage Fair is nearly here
Takes place on Tuesday, 13 December, 2-5pm
Big UK firms ramp up billable targets as ‘profit leakage’ increases
Nearly half by over 10% ⏰
Exclusive: AI chatbot successfully answers Watson Glaser test
Could ChatGPT spell the end of law firm fav?