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Cleary Gottlieb ups London junior lawyer pay by 11% to £133,000
US outfit's rookies handed extra cash too

Linklaters’ top brass see earnings jump by 17% as profit pot hits £25 million
Published accounts reveal eyewatering earnings

Top CPS lawyer scoops ULaw honorary doctorate
Eran Cutliffe appeared in BBC legal documentary The Prosecutors

This is how the trial of Guy Fawkes went down 400 years ago
'Remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot'

Awkward typo spotted in ‘Thiry-Third Edition’ of contract law bible
Yours for just £565

Olympic bomb hoax barrister banned from legal profession
Michael Shrimpton, who was disbarred in 2018, subject to further regulatory action -- this time by the SRA

Tickets go on sale for The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference London 2020
At Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, on Thursday 14 May 2020

BPP grad denied licence to practise law over LLM plagiarism
Applied for foreign lawyer status

Legal Cheek global economy of the 2020s student events in Edinburgh and London this week
We’re in the Scottish capital at Addleshaw Goddard on Wednesday evening and in the City of London with Osborne Clarke on Thursday

Super-exam pass rates could be higher than LPC, says boss of new SQE mega provider
Comments come after Linklaters training chief revealed fear that more magic circle rookies could fail SQE

Kim Kardashian recreates Elle Woods’ iconic Harvard Law School admission video essay
World’s most famous law student wins Halloween with Legally Blonde tribute

City Law School latest to offer two-part bar course following regulatory shake-up
It's much cheaper, too

Swansea Uni-backed legal lab scoops £4 million in EU funding
New hub to support research and develop advances in lawtech, Welsh government says

You’ve ‘wrecked’ my dream of becoming a lawyer: French LPC student blasts Boris’ Brexit vision in emotional open letter
PM is putting party and ego before national interests, Royal Holloway law grad claims

Lord Keen QC cleared of professional misconduct after firearms conviction
Top Scottish lawyer appeared before a disciplinary tribunal

Fifth of law firms fail on money laundering rules, says SRA
Regulator to ramp up compliance checks in wake of review