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City law firms to offer training contract interviews to super-exam pilot candidates
Other perks up for grabs include open day invites, one-to-one coaching sessions and £500 in cash
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The chambers with the best facilities in England — 2019 edition
The new Legal Cheek Junior Barrister Survey results — analysed
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Eviction row: Brighton University property law lecturer threatened to torch landlords’ home, court hears
While his lawyer wife allegedly armed herself with a foot-long metal pole during eviction row
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Careers
The Liverpool legal scene is going from strength to strength
Reflections from Legal Cheek’s north-western careers discussion featuring a panel of top lawyers from the area
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DWF to push ahead with flotation in UK’s largest law firm listing
An important step for future growth, says global outfit’s chief
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Allen & Overy keeps 39 out of 47 qualifying trainees
Spring score of 83%
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Husband and wife team sit on Supreme Court bench
Hale hails ‘historic’ occasion for Lady Arden and Lord Mance
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House of Commons barista paid more than average legal aid barrister
Civil service role comes with a salary of £23,290 plus benefits
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Super-exam architect Julie Brannan on LLB-SQEs, new law schools and students teaching themselves
Scrapping the GDL and LPC is really gonna shake things up
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Careers
Adapt to lawtech or be left behind
Ahead of Legal Cheek‘s lawtech-themed Secrets to Success event at ULaw Moorgate next Tuesday, trainee solicitor Daniel Down explains how Gowling WLG is embracing change
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Salad loving lawyers crowned UK’s ‘healthiest profession’
Legal professionals most ‘selective eaters’, Deliveroo data reveals
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Law Society warns justice system at ‘breaking point’ as it releases animated film following defendant’s ‘nightmare journey’ through courts
‘Poor Peter’ is accused of a crime he didn’t commit
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Ex-SRA policy chief launches business to help law firms decipher super-exam shake-up
Crispin Passmore quit regulator last month
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Junior lawyer MP jailed for lying to avoid speeding fine
Property law specialist Fiona Onasanya handed three-month custodial sentence
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Journal
A lawyer’s guide to advising clients in the event of a no deal Brexit
The sudden legal severance of UK law from EU law presents unique issues of interpretation for lawyers, whose task it will be to interpret and apply these rules in their new legal context, says Hogan Lovells’ Andrew Eaton
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How not to get a training contract at Alan & Ovary, Freshfields Brickhouse Deringer and Shirley & Herman
Grad recruiters reveal favourite firm name blunders
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Strike off for ‘pressured and bullied’ trainee solicitor who blew whistle on firm’s fraud
‘Horrendous environment’ did not excuse dishonesty, tribunal found
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Lord Chancellor condemns Nazi death threat against solicitor defending ‘speedboat killer’
Tuckers partner Richard Egan sent threatening letter for representing Jack Shepherd
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Junior solicitor struck off for fare dodging just two years after qualifying
Adam Kemeny avoided paying £650 worth of train fares from Shoreditch to Surrey
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Careers
Brexit could generate plenty of opportunities for future lawyers
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘How will Brexit disarray affect future lawyers?’ event at ULaw Moorgate on Thursday, ULaw associate professor Trevor Tayleur casts an expert eye over the impending upheaval
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Rapper Azealia Banks hits back at junior barrister’s claim she could be prosecuted for Irish remarks
‘Who is Tomas McGarvey?’
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Junior lawyers from Freshfields and the JLD to join LawCare CEO and top academic to discuss mental health
Latest batch of speakers announced for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
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Stephenson Harwood posts 100% spring trainee retention score
All eight March qualifiers to stay put
