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What Brexit? Herbert Smith Freehills boosts pay for newly qualified solicitors to £90,000
Trainee salaries also rise at London office of global giant
Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its qualifying trainees
Gold stars and pats on the back all round at big-paying US firm's London office
Fieldfisher kicks off Autumn retention season with perfect 100% result
Meanwhile City outfit CMS Cameron McKenna finally reveals disappointing spring figure of just 62%
Criminal barrister handed suspended sentence for stalking ex-lover
Conviction follows on from his lawyer wife being given a 12-month restraining order and curfew for her own campaign against husband’s ex-mistress
Crowd justice to the rescue
Top QC calls on the crowd in their wisdom to clear up constitutional chaos
Law lecturers reassure disheartened students that their EU law studies not in vain
Factortame is going nowhere
University of Law offers half price course fees for out-of-work LPC students
Wannabe lawyers will still receive a 50% rebate on LPC fees if they have failed to secure employment within nine months of graduating
Chasing Shadows
Meet the two lawyer newbies promoted to positions in the shadow cabinet that Corbyn/McDonnell are too busy to occupy
Lord Neuberger’s top tips on how to be rude to judges, and get away with it
Lessons in subtle rudeness from the Supreme Court bigshot
University of Liverpool EU law lecturer’s incredible out-of-office email response in wake of Brexit abuse
Exclusive: Professor Michael Dougan went viral earlier this month after a video backing Remain campaign amassed almost seven million views
Half of Baker & McKenzie’s new London partners are women
International heavyweight promotes 85 lawyers across its global offices
York Uni pays four-figure sum to law student who claimed anti-Semitism was rife at UK universities
Boris Johnson’s brother helped him get the money
Pride 2016: Lawyers take to London’s streets to celebrate LGBTI rights
And yes, there was a dog in wig
London law firms to cut back on EU trainees following Brexit
As many as 20% of City firms' trainees are non-British EU citizens -- something which may be about to change
Bar Council insists London will remain a global litigation centre as City law firms go into overdrive advising shaken clients
UK legal sector displays a stiff upper lip in wake of historic EU referendum result
Exclusive: Law Society to launch review of ‘official photographer’ amid retouched grad photos storm
Success Photography will digitally enhance graduands’ photos so they look slimmer, their skin clearer and their teeth whiter
Lawyers assure upset Bremainers that Vote Leave victory is NOT legally binding
That doesn’t mean they’re happy about the result
Hill Dickinson reserves training contracts for paralegals
Two out of 12 TCs will go to graduates already employed by national giant
Vote Leave paralegal targeted by Remain campaigners
Law grad on £16,500 a year who feels he’s “at the back of the queue” for jobs sparks social media storm
Karaoke Court is actually a thing
The brains behind the legally binding sing-offs found his inspiration in an undergrad jurisprudence lecture
Boutique law firm asks wannabe trainees to sell themselves NOT their grades
Video killed the 3 As star