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BBC launches beefed-up training contract programme with more money and more places
Two schemes now on offer for LPC graduates
BPTC student who used legal skills to bring judicial review succeeds in having her dad’s benefits reinstated
Solicitors and barristers agreed to help Anita Dowman pro bono after they saw Legal Cheek’s appeal
Morning round-up: Monday 27 February
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Barrister who was jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine removed from profession
Omar Khan handed three-year prison term back in April last year
It now looks even more likely our next Lord Chief Justice will be a woman
Front-runners' chances scuppered because they're too old to apply
Macfarlanes reveals perfect 100% spring retention score
Silver circle firm keeps all six NQs due to qualify next month
Law Commission lambasted over espionage law proposals
Journalists, NGOs and lawyers not happy
LawBot 2.0: crime-identifying ‘robot’ created by Cambridge University law students can now help with divorces
Software system get family law update
#GreatLegalBake: Lawyers made a Donald Trump and a Brexit cake
Make baking great again
Morning round-up: Friday 24 February
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 27 out of 35 qualifying trainees
77% of London rookies stay on
Man convicted of spray-painting creepy graffiti on the side of the RCJ is banned from the building
Stay away! the court orders
Lord Neuberger admits being a judge is ‘lonely’ and having your judgments ‘trashed’ by academics is hard to take in confessional speech
More excitingly, he says he’s a supporter of the Oxford comma
Hogan Lovells posts 79% spring retention rate
Transatlantic giant's corporate group will take the lion's share of NQs
A barrister’s wig and gown have been stolen from the RCJ robing room
Lawyer thinks it’s ‘appalling’ there isn’t a lock on the door
Morning round-up: Thursday 23 February
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Barrister orders Piers Morgan to retract allegation that he is a ‘liar’
Karl Turner, who used to be the Shadow Attorney General, in tense stand-off with TV star, who doesn't seem minded to back down
Dream law student property with its own courtroom goes on sale for £525,000
Renovated magistrates' court comes with prison cells and a conference room too
Devereux Chambers barrister Jolyon Maugham QC takes Uber to court over £20 million unpaid VAT
Just weeks after he launched a pro bono project aimed at holding the government to account