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Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair
Leading chambers and law schools return on 8 October for UK’s biggest bar careers event
Anonymous criminal barrister posts breakdown of entire year’s earnings on Twitter — less than £20,000
£19.5k BEFORE chambers rent, insurance and practising certificate
Has a robot really just hired a lawyer?
Chatbot seeks legal rep after becoming sentient, claims AI engineer
Criminal bar strike in pics 📸
Barristers join picket lines across the country
RPC and Taylor Wessing employees win award for alien invasion music video
Meet the duo repping City law in music
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Just over ONE WEEK to go: The Legal Cheek Summer 2022 Virtual Vacation Scheme
Featuring magic circle, US and international law firms. Free to attend and open to all!
A&O and Travers Smith launch LGBTQI Legal Aid Fund
City duo to support organisations in countries where same-sex relations and trans identities are criminalised
Mock trial winner ‘lost for words’ after scooping Smart car
Another competition, another car 🚗
Partners less happy than trainees, research suggests
It would appear money doesn't buy happiness
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
High Court rejects barrister’s appeal against fine for calling opponent a ‘hysterical woman’
Judge dismisses argument that the sanction infringed on freedom of expression
Mayer Brown posts autumn retention score with one of the City’s first solicitor apprentices accepting NQ role
6 out of 9 rookies to stay put
RPC increases trainee pay in London and Bristol
City rookies to earn £48k
SQE prep provider creates ‘humanitarian scholarship’ for aspiring lawyers fleeing war
Half price SQE1 course with BARBRI
ULaw launches bar course in Newcastle
First budding barristers start this September