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Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Jul 3 2020 8:07am

Top blogging barrister warns Birkbeck law grad that her crowdfunded Dominic Cummings prosecution is doomed

Revised legal advice to Mahsa Taliefar is expected to row back on prospects of success

Jul 2 2020 2:48pm

Womble Bond Dickinson extends training contracts by six months in response to coronavirus

Exclusive: Firm also pushes back autumn TC start dates

Jul 2 2020 11:33am

Family barristers star in Foo Fighters spoof music video

3PB's eye-catching music video includes a dog dressed as an alien

Jul 2 2020 9:24am

Freshfields launches in Silicon Valley

Magic circle player moves into thriving San Fran tech hub

Jul 1 2020 2:04pm

‘Can I do a UK training contract if I’m based overseas?’

We put one reader's question to the regulator

Jul 1 2020 11:12am

DLA Piper and Baker McKenzie latest to cut NQ pay

Both firms anticipate salary reviews in due course

Jul 1 2020 10:08am

Aspiring barrister raises £65,000 to realise Cambridge Uni law course dream

‘I'm absolutely over the moon!’ Dylan Kawende tells Legal Cheek

Jul 1 2020 9:13am

ULaw and BPP confirm campuses will reopen this autumn

Temperature tests and other safety measures to combat virus spread will be put in place

Jun 30 2020 2:07pm

Use government cash to fund training contracts, says Law Society

Chancery Lane lays out coronavirus recovery plan

Jun 30 2020 10:23am

Why judges are not ‘Enemies of the People’

Legal Cheek reviews the latest book offering by legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg

Jun 30 2020 9:27am

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

Jun 29 2020 1:05pm

Aspiring barrister targeted in ‘cash for pupillage’ scam

'Don’t fall into a similar TRAP', ULaw undergrad warns in LinkedIn post

Jun 29 2020 12:19pm

Law Society renames ‘Old Bookshop’ in honour of first female solicitor

Prominent room will bear Carrie Morrison's name

Jun 29 2020 11:44am

BCLP cuts NQ solicitor pay to £78,000

Belt-tightening measures across the City continue

Jun 29 2020 10:22am

Monday morning round-up

The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Jun 29 2020 8:37am

‘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

Jun 26 2020 12:12pm