Another Doughty Street barrister gets the tabloid treatment
Jennifer Robinson caught in crossfire as newspapers target key Labour figure
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BSB balls-up: 26 bar students see marks changed following ethics exam ‘clerical errors’ chaos
Regulator has now told providers to release results
Ashurst autumn retention rate: 95% of NQs staying on
Their salaries will leap from £46,000 to £72,000 overnight
Norton Rose Fulbright raises NQ pay to £75k
Trainee money is increased too
Lawyers rush to defend Leigh Day paralegals suspended for allegedly ‘touting’ for Grenfell Tower fire business
A lot of love shared in the Legal Cheek comments
Akin Gump trainees will now earn £100,000 across their two-year training contract
Increases of 12% in first year and 8% in second year
Love happens here: The very best lawyer photos from London Pride
Includes a dog in a barrister’s wig wearing a Hawaiian lei
Shearman & Sterling keeps 13 out of 15 trainees
Their pay will now more than DOUBLE from £50k to £105k
Leigh Day suspends two paralegals accused of ‘touting’ for business among Grenfell Tower fire victims
Not ideal when you’re angling for a training contract
BSB delays release of BPTC ethics exam results after spotting ‘clerical errors’
Exclusive: All providers impacted as regulator conducts ‘further check on every paper’
ULaw to move Chester campus closer to city centre
Guessing game begins on new location in Hollyoaks-land
Travers Smith boosts pay for trainees and NQs
It has been a very good week for firms’ salary increases
Allen & Overy tops magic circle financial results growth league, with Clifford Chance coming in second
Linklaters is third and Freshfields fourth, while Slaughter and May declines to take part in summer bling fest
There’s now a David Lidington parody account, and it’s just as good as the Liz Truss one
Is any Lord Chancellor safe?
Macfarlanes sharply raises NQ pay to over £80,000
Exclusive: £10k increase for firm’s newly qualified lawyers
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
What the Dickens? New courts abandon ‘arcane’ titles
Chancery and Mercantile courts make way for more ‘user-friendly’ monikers
Jones Day joins ‘100 Club’ with 18% pay boost for junior lawyers
Exclusive: The only way is up for trainee pay too
Inner Temple to build ‘education and training centre’ for wannabe barristers
Radical redevelopment includes 120-seat lecture theatre and break out spaces
Child abuse inquiry acted ‘appropriately and proportionately’ when its lead lawyer was accused of sexual assault
Ben Emmerson QC denies the allegations
Regional rises: CMS ups Bristol trainee pay by 16%
Exclusive: Newly-merged mega firm also throws extra cash at NQs north and south of the border
Wavelength Law wins Online Court hackathon
Civil claims tool wows judges
Five City firms named in LGBT ‘top global employers’ index
Stonewall list celebrates efforts to promote inclusivity at work
Catfishing solicitor who posed as Bollywood superstar on Tinder to seduce women will NOT face disciplinary hearing
SRA said lawyer’s actions relate to his private life
France to set up English-style financial disputes court and ‘hire people with experience in common law’
Paris eyes London’s legal crown
‘Brexit – the Musical’: Show written by Berwin Leighton Paisner EU law partner to debut at Edinburgh Fringe
Its characters include Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
Solicitor super-exam is golden opportunity for law schools to make their students more techy, legal education expert says
Future lawyers ‘must be able to effectively use technology’
Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze £160,000 from his OWN partners
Michael Potere threatened to leak confidential info, according to court papers
New law graduates earn less money than social studies, education and business studies graduates
£20,000 a year average makes it one of lowest salaries
Mayer Brown reveals 73% autumn retention score
Global outfit keeps eight of its 11 NQs
Bouncebackability: Ashurst’s revenue climbs by 7% after turbulent 12 months
Meanwhile Linklaters and Taylor Wessing unveil mixed financial fortunes
‘This should alarm everyone’: Social media rages as ex-Court of Appeal judge appointed to lead Grenfell Tower inquiry
But legal Twitterati describes the hate as ‘absolutely senseless’
Revealed: The staggering differences behind universities’ LLB places
Exclusive: There are more law students at Liverpool than Oxford and Cambridge combined
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Lancaster law graduate goes viral after posting touching tribute for mum who died during final year exams 
Senior partner at ‘family law specialists’ is a convicted paedophile on the sex offender register 
Cambridge law students prepare to launch cryptocurrency 
Debt dilemma: Bangor grad unable to collect first class law degree launches public appeal 
A magic circle trainee’s ultra-sassy tweets have been exposed for all the legal world to see
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