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ULaw reveals SQE prep course fees
Prices range from £500 for a short SQE1 revision course to £16,500 for most comprehensive LLM

Solicitor who assaulted female family member rebuked
Received conditional caution

City Consortium to provide SQE ‘top-up courses’ for future trainees
Exclusive: Will cover legal tech and project management skills

Osborne Clarke ends COVID salary cuts early
Will repay staff deducted earnings this month

Junior lawyer warns law firms against ‘misusing’ apprenticeship levy
JLD committee member James Kitching's comments come at the start of National Apprenticeship Week

Macfarlanes restores NQ lawyer salaries to £85,000 following COVID cut
Pay trimmed by £5k last summer
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

Virtual student event TODAY: Secrets to Success North — with CMS, Fieldfisher, Mills & Reeve and ULaw
Tuesday 9 February, from 4pm to 6:30pm, taking place virtually

Councillor in chaotic parish meeting is a lawyer
Aled Brewerton -- one of the participants in the now viral video call -- has a legal background, report claims

Hogan Lovells gets its first female solo chair
Marie-Aimée de Dampierre is one of a number of women in leadership roles at the firm

Revealed: The chambers with the most supportive barristers 2021
From multiple virtual meet-ups to the set's most formidable silk lending a hand

The Bridgerton cast as the people you meet at law school
All is fair in law and war, but who will be the season's finest?

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Shortlists revealed for the Legal Cheek Awards 2021
Who will you be rooting for?

High Court video hearing thrown into chaos after intruders share pics of ‘well-endowed men’
Members of the public, who dialled into a case concerning Swindon Town F.C., blew raspberries, screamed and shared pornographic images

Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 28 out of 30 NQ associates
Solid spring score of 93%

Could the Gamestop craze reach law firm stocks?
As the Legal Cheek fund surges by 15%, our listed law firm columnist wonders if a Reddit-driven windfall could be around the corner

BCLP restores NQ solicitor pay to £80k as it retains 14 out of 16 spring qualifiers
City player cut salaries in response to pandemic