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Freshfields launches in Silicon Valley
Magic circle player moves into thriving San Fran tech hub

‘Can I do a UK training contract if I’m based overseas?’
We put one reader's question to the regulator

DLA Piper and Baker McKenzie latest to cut NQ pay
Both firms anticipate salary reviews in due course

Aspiring barrister raises £65,000 to realise Cambridge Uni law course dream
‘I'm absolutely over the moon!’ Dylan Kawende tells Legal Cheek

ULaw and BPP confirm campuses will reopen this autumn
Temperature tests and other safety measures to combat virus spread will be put in place

Use government cash to fund training contracts, says Law Society
Chancery Lane lays out coronavirus recovery plan

Why judges are not ‘Enemies of the People’
Legal Cheek reviews the latest book offering by legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg

COVID-19: BSB pushes ahead with online exams — but offers students test centre option
Regulator publishes fresh guidance

Barrister embroiled in trans rights row raises £60,000 to sue Stonewall despite CrowdJustice briefly taking her page down
Allison Bailey to include her own chambers in the discrimination action

Aspiring barrister targeted in ‘cash for pupillage’ scam
'Don’t fall into a similar TRAP', ULaw undergrad warns in LinkedIn post

Law Society renames ‘Old Bookshop’ in honour of first female solicitor
Prominent room will bear Carrie Morrison's name

BCLP cuts NQ solicitor pay to £78,000
Belt-tightening measures across the City continue
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

‘I had no assurances that being gay in law was okay’: LGBTQ+ students on life after coming out
Co-founders of 'Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow' Olivia Reily and Owen Hussey on the challenges they faced and why they set-up their new diversity platform

Travers Smith posts 89% trainee retention score
17 out of 19

Oxford Uni grad launches ‘TikTok Law School’
Toby Willcocks' video series designed to help aspiring lawyers

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

Former BPP employment law lecturer successfully sues for unfair dismissal
Elizabeth Aylott wins on two counts; BPP launches appeal

‘We just love being lawyers’, sings CMS choir
The show must go on -- even under lockdown

Boost pupillage numbers by building a WeWork-style co-working space on one of the Inn’s ‘grand gardens’, says aspiring barrister
She accepts it may be difficult to execute