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‘Robot lawyer’ created by Cambridge students will now answer your legal problems via Facebook Messenger
LawBot X predicts claim outcomes and boasts 71% success rating
Top criminal chambers forced to rebrand as old premises become luxury apartments
9-12 Bell Yard now Foundry Chambers
Make it unlawful to stand by and record emergency scenes, argues law professor
Academic paper proposes legal liability for those who video terrorist attacks instead of helping victims
Morning round-up: Monday 19 June
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
13 things that happened during the Supreme Court’s Facebook livestream
Justices talk Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Liz Truss and much more in video interview
Boston bolt-on: Hogan Lovells to swallow up US law firm Collora
Combination to go live on 1 September
Travers Smith launches mentor scheme to empower LGBT+ students
Corporate law firm tackles the big dilemma of coming out at work
I got in trouble for arguing with a pro-life campaigner at school, now I’m a barrister in the Northern Irish abortion law case
Supreme Court ruled in Jeremy Hunt's favour this week, now all eyes are on Strasbourg
Morning round-up: Friday 16 June
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
SRA moots paying student guinea pigs to sit pilot super-exam
Want to get paid to take the SQE?
‘They tried to get lawyers’: Devastating cuts to legal aid prevented Grenfell Tower residents accessing advice over safety concerns
Legal profession offers pro bono support to blaze victims
Law lectures will not survive much longer, says Oxford academic
Make way for the internet age of legal education
Morning round-up: Thursday 15 June
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Oxford law grads pocket £20,000 a year more than Durham and Warwick peers
Earning power: Oxbridge dominant over Russell Group rivals, new stats show
Northern Irish women NOT entitled to abortions on NHS, Supreme Court rules
Landmark case decided by majority of 3:2
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Solicitor super-exam WILL change how big City law firms hire trainees, insists SRA boss
Comments come in response to suggestion by Hogan Lovells chief that scrapping LPC may not have major impact
Morning round-up: Wednesday 14 June
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Solicitor super-exam: Students able to take LPC and GDL into the 2030s
Exclusive: Regulator backs ‘lengthy transition period’, as lawyers speculate advocacy’s place on SQE
Norton Rose Fulbright’s merger with Aussie law firm Henry Davis York given go-ahead following successful partner vote
Official go-live date remains unknown
Reshuffle: Ex-City lawyer who claimed foodbank users have ‘cash flow problems’ returns to the MoJ
Dominic Raab MP made a Justice Minister, as fellow commercial solicitor made Work and Pensions Secretary