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Manchester University confirms all law lectures from next term will be delivered online
Social distancing measures may remain in place for some time meaning traditional fresher experience could look very different
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Not being allowed to work from home among top COVID-19 concerns to lawyer-wellbeing helpline
LawCare stats released to mark start of Mental Health Awareness Week
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Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online
As Eversheds explores similar option
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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
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Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life
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BPP, Hertfordshire and Plymouth law schools recognised for pro bono efforts
Trio scoop LawWorks gongs
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An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts
They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees’ futures
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Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
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Linklaters’ lawyer scoops £32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Peter Hudson foiled in bid for more dosh by question about charities
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COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline
Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic
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Kaplan given go-ahead to assess solicitor apprentices
Follows appointment to run SQE
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Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown
Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office
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Careers
The challenges ahead for online courts
Hardwicke barrister Andy Creer discusses changes to the way advocacy is delivered during the COVID-19 crisis and the new skills future barristers will require
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COVID-19: Bar exams to go online
But not before August
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Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%
International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic
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Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist
Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts
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Kent University launches coronavirus LLM
New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response
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A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme
Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online
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Careers
Why lawyers of the 2020s need to force themselves out their comfort zone
We sit down — virtually, of course — with LexisNexis’s Director Transformation, Kate Gaskell, ahead of her appearance at LegalEdCon on Thursday
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Aspiring lawyer successfully sues twin sister for £96,000 after she crashed car while sneezing
Injuries hinder future legal career, court finds
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Vlogging magic circle trainee Eve Cornwell takes on Mike Ross in Suits mock trial
She gives herself only five minutes to construct a legal argument
