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Legal Cheek talks… our experience at the Brexit High Court challenge
Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on the red carpet event of the legal world
Another law student has made a brilliant student card picture f*** up
But does Dáire Shaw’s alien filter ID beat Tina Byrne’s cow selfie?
Law firms hire from the most limited university pool, research finds
And they spend the most amount of money in the process
Beyond Marmite: justice committee invites views on implications of Brexit
MPs say they want to steer clear of "for and against" arguments
Morning round-up: Friday 14 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
The law firms that give trainees and junior lawyers the best quality of work
It’s not all photocopying and filing
Research: Almost 70% of lawyers believe they work in the most stressful profession
Workload, client demands and billing targets are to blame
‘There is no going back’: Lord Pannick QC kicks off Brexit legal challenge
There were protesters dressed as lawyers outside the High Court
Herbert Smith Freehills renames £9,000 diversity scholarship in memory of firm’s first black partner
Applications open 1 November
14 things every law soc president will understand
I can’t believe I agreed to a whole year of this...
Morning round-up: Thursday 13 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
‘Second rate lawyer’: Iain Duncan Smith apologises for ‘clumsy’ Keir Starmer jibe
Conservative MP left red-faced this afternoon
Warwick law student attacked by ‘killer clowns’ near university campus
A similar thing happened to a Kent criminology graduate
Barrister who tried to smuggle over a tonne of shisha tobacco into UK booted out of profession
Career in law now up in smoke
Nabarro, CMS Cameron McKenna and Latham & Watkins reveal trainee retention figures
Clyde & Co and DAC Beachcroft also throw their results into the mix
Legal Cheek’s favourite undergraduate law modules that you can actually, really study
Forget land law, strategic lawyering sounds much more fun
Morning round-up: Wednesday 12 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Iain Duncan Smith called Keir Starmer a ‘second rate lawyer’ and Twitter went mental
Incident happened during fiery parliamentary debate on Brexit
The graffiti outside the Royal Courts of Justice is getting creepier
First killer clowns, now this
DWF moves towards opening solicitor route to paralegal apprentices
Those with “exceptional potential” in line for shot at lawyer jobs
Lord Sumption tells aspiring lawyers not to do a law degree
Do a history degree instead, says the history graduate