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Law second most pressure-filled profession
Ahead of healthcare, education and finance, research suggests
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Allen & Overy appoints innovation hub chief to partner
Fuse’s Shruti Ajitsaria among 14 City lawyers to get nod
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Jones Day faces £150 million sex discrimination claim over ‘fraternity culture’
Six female former associates launch group action
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One in 15 junior solicitors is suicidal, research finds
Sharp rise in rookies experiencing mental ill-health
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BPP students to be taught digital skills through new lawtech partnership
Training on HighQ platform to be part of syllabus
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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
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DWF’s Milton Keynes office to close next month
Exclusive: News of the closure comes just weeks after firm’s flotation on London Stock Exchange
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EY’s foray into law continues with legal outsourcing acquisition
Big four titan snaps up Thomson Reuters’ Pangea3
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Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
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Lawyer who spat at flight attendant during drunken racist rant jailed for six months
Human rights specialist pleaded guilty last month to assault and being drunk on an aircraft
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Careers
Win a return flight to New York: ‘My US Legal Icon’ Vlogging Prize
From the Obamas to The Notorious R.B.G — tell us about your American hero to win a return transatlantic flight to New York City
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Video: How innovative are law firms behind the scenes?
Legal Cheek probes beyond the marketing puffery
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Sexism from judges exaggerated, says Lord Chief Justice
Small number of examples give ‘false impression’
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Allen & Overy lawyer to face tribunal over Weinstein NDA fiasco
Regulator confident lawyers’ attitudes to non-disclosure agreements have changed
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Careers
Be prepared to forge your own path to legal practice
A panel of lawyers reveal their unconventional routes into law
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Six bar big hitters to speak at Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Dedicated barrister session to feature practitioners from Hardwicke and Cornerstone, alongside BPTC heads, academics and Inns’ director
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Government sets up contempt of court hotline to social media companies
As report reveals that Google search tool is naming sex crime victims
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It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident
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Irish law school apologises for ‘ill-judged’ Twitter response to mental health concerns
Maynooth Uni law student questioned decision to schedule land and equity exams the day after each other
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Macfarlanes boosts LPC grant to £10,000 as it confirms 100% spring retention score
All six associates kept on
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Email fraudsters impersonate Clifford Chance UK managing partner
Spell name wrong in dodgy emails
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King’s College history student beats Oxbridge wannabe lawyers to ‘Advocate of the Year’ prize
Bar hopeful Tristan Greene victorious in BPP-backed comp
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Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students’ best route to solicitor qualification
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Ministry of Justice signs historic online betting deal (April Fool!)
Package includes court naming rights and judges’ robe sponsorship
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Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
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Careers
Without role models, LGBT+ junior lawyers risk ‘going back into the closet’
Lawyers from Hogan Lovells and Goldman Sachs on the vital role support networks play in the fight against discrimination
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Journal
A brief history of equitable compensation
Linguistic developments have muddied the waters, says Oxford University law student Jordan Briggs
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Lawyers among worst for phone etiquette
Irritating habits include eating and drinking or interrupting those speaking, research finds
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Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
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Top UK legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg confronts heckler during debate
‘You be quiet sir’
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2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them
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Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal
Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute
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Head of Nottingham Law School teaching law firm to join other top non-Russell Group academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
New session on clinical legal education to also feature universities Swansea and Northumbria, and leading apprenticeships provider
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Linklaters and Clifford Chance latest firms to pay for gender reassignment surgery
Transitioning support also available for lawyers and support staff
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It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers
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Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners
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Pinch on the bum not indecent assault in age of ‘twerking’ and internet porn, judge finds
Australian appeal court upholds acquittal of cop for touching woman at basketball tournament
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Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’
Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister
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Estonia to build ‘robot judge’ to clear case backlog
Baltic nation’s justice officials call on services of 28-year-old AI whizz
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London lawyer jailed for misleading FBI during Trump-Russia probe to face disciplinary tribunal
‘Allegations are as yet unproven’, says SRA
