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Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon won’t say whether he backs unlawful action
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Manchester Law School scholarship to boost number of black males entering legal profession
Students will receive £3,000 for each year of their undergraduate degrees
Pinsent Masons opens redundancy consultation that could see up to 100 PA jobs go
Firm cites investment in legal tech as one of the reasons behind the review
Judge complains after being handed bundle containing 2,000 pages of ‘largely irrelevant material’
Size really does matter, according to Mr Justice Holgate
David Lammy is right to encourage use of modern slavery laws, says human rights lawyer
MP’s report recommends more prosecutions under modern slavery legislation
Withers teams up with BPP to launch ‘earn while you learn’ solicitor apprenticeships
International law firm embraces government-backed Trailblazer scheme
Chief Justice: Family courts in ‘crisis’
Retiring Lord Thomas says something must be done on public law cases
‘You’re fired’: Louise Mensch ditches her lawyer… on Twitter
A very public spat
Norton Rose Fulbright reveals Newcastle support hub expansion plan
But there won’t be TCs in the Toon anytime soon
Theresa May ‘profoundly misleading’ over Brexit legal changes, expert warns
Cambridge law professor Mark Elliott isn’t happy with the PM
Amal Clooney is ‘the Mensa member’s crumpet,’ proclaims top fashionista
Fashion journalist fawns over Doughty Street barrister
Michael Mansfield QC joins Nexus Chambers following mass exodus at old set
Exclusive: Top silk follows tenants out the door
Clifford Chance keeps 42 out of 52 autumn NQs
Magic circle giant bounces back from disappointing spring result
ECtHR overturns ruling that allowed boss to snoop on employee’s Yahoo account
Original decision caused right-wing press furore — and inaccurate reporting
Trio of magic circle training contract offers for LSE student who grew up on council estate
Panashe Jinga has turned down Linklaters and Allen & Overy to train at Freshfields
Bond Dickinson unveils 81% retention score as firm prepares for US mega merger
Tie-up with North Carolina’s Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice will go live next month
Tribunal tells SRA to review its guidance on solicitors having sex with clients
Plea comes as SDT fines lawyer £8,500 for failing to disclose relationship
Farewell Lord Neuberger! Supreme Court judge hangs up robes as his right-hand woman takes over
Lady Hale will be first female president
Secret trainees are revealing what City law life is really like
Elitist partners, recruitment event fibs and shafted PAs
Pinsent Masons launches ‘earn while you learn’ paralegal programme as it reveals solicitor apprenticeship hopes
Firm follows in footsteps of Freshfields and DWF
Travers Smith keeps 18 of its 20 NQs following summer salary boost
City outfit chalks up impressive 90% autumn rate
Cambridge law student who burned £20 note in front of homeless man KEEPS university place
Ronald Coyne reveals he’s been threatened with chemical attacks in apology letter to peers
Subway 11-inch sandwiches settlement only benefited lawyers, judge rules
Case reached court thanks to ‘minor social media sensation’
Anglo-Aussie break up: Stock market-listed Slater and Gordon confirms split from UK arm
Decision follows a string of disappointing financial results
Two robot lawyers have ‘hooked up’ in legal software ‘relationship’ first
Tech bubble alert as ‘LISA’ gets together with ‘Billy Bot’
The demise of family law? Courts now ‘largely inaccessible’ and ‘unintelligible’, says court president
As solicitor is lambasted for ‘extremely serious professional errors’ in complex child abuse case
Suited and booted lawyer with 150k followers sets pulses racing across the globe
‘What type of lawyer are you so I can know what type of crime to commit’
Edinburgh law student in massive row with his uni over ‘mocking ISIS’ claim
University of Edinburgh says it’s investigating ‘complaints alleging misconduct’
Trainee solicitor who charged clients for legal advice handed 18-month suspended jail term
Training contract disaster
Parking company sues top QC, loses
Doughty Street barrister achieves what fish and chip shop owner Barry Beavis couldn’t
Welsh wannabe lawyers unable to obtain vital student funding just weeks before law school starts
And their government is being blamed
Eight tech start-ups set to join Allen & Overy’s hipster-esque ‘Fuse’ innovation hub
Well-known AI system and asylum advice app among successful applicants
Anger as City law’s only Michelin-starred chef ‘forced out’ of Watson Farley & Williams
The famous Philippe Roth exits after 14 years at firm
Magic circle top payer opts against raising NQ pay above £85k, dashing ‘100 Club’ dreams
Freshfields to stick rather than twist
Regulator issues ‘what not to do’ social media guide for solicitors amid rise in complaints
Just days after a law firm partner was sanctioned following anti-Semitic Facebook rant
Fake barrister listed on genuine chambers website is jailed for defrauding terminally ill woman out of £92,000
He falsely claimed to have a law degree from the University of London
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‘It wasn’t an easy decision’: Student quit law degree to become porn star over concerns about money and graduate job prospects
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Fake Squire Patton Boggs website given court approval in bizarre decision
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Senior barrister told BPTC student ‘I don’t trust fags like you’, shocking new LGBT+ research reveals
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Lawyers round on license-stripped Uber’s ‘dishonourable history’ as stricken company calls on Hogan Lovells to fight appeal
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