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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
Morning round-up: Tuesday 11 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
CMS Cameron McKenna, Nabarro and Olswang confirm merger WILL go ahead
And it will be called CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Court document reveals SRA was left over £17,700 out of pocket after Lord Harley redaction blunder
Exclusive: Regulator was unable to recover costs after ex-solicitor advocate's unsuccessful injunction bid
Aspiring solicitor and law student tells Vogue she thinks ‘far more’ about clothes now than she did when she was a model
Plus Monckton barrister talks underwear
£5 million up for grabs as Inns of Court open BPTC scholarship applications
Bar hopefuls have less than a month to apply
Revealed: Top law firms average arrive and leave the office times
The ones who work late often get in quite late
Morning round-up: Monday 10 October
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Legal Cheek talks… crazy billable hours targets
The tactics firms use to whip their lawyers into shape, and whether they work