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Shakespeare meets Silk — Supreme Court Justice idea’s time has come

Could this be the next smash global TV format?

Apr 28 2016 11:43am

Social mobility work experience scheme pledges to stay closer to students as chair passes from Allen & Overy to Hogan Lovells

PRIME seeks to move to next level after giving 4,000 kids City law placements in five years

Apr 28 2016 10:31am

Morning round-up: Thursday 28 April

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Apr 28 2016 8:15am

Lord Harley’s claim for ‘interim relief’ against Law Society struck out by High Court

"Harry Potter" lawyer was seeking to restrain the release of six closed files under a freedom of information request

Apr 27 2016 5:43pm

Research: UK’s WORST law schools for ’employability’

How did your law school fare?

Apr 27 2016 1:17pm

Amal Clooney takes aim at Donald Trump in revealing BBC interview

And also gives four top tips for legal success

Apr 27 2016 11:40am

Law school satisfaction survey — rate your GDL/LPC/BPTC

How good is your postgraduate legal training?

Apr 27 2016 9:05am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 27 April

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Apr 27 2016 8:06am

Match of The Day host calls for divorce lawyers to be replaced by mathematical formula

Not so much taken out of the equation as taken out by the equation

Apr 26 2016 6:09pm

Ex-Squire Patton Boggs associate reveals ‘blatant’ gender discrimination and sexual harassment in explosive Reddit Q&A

Female lawyer at global giant’s Qatar office missed her own grandmother's funeral due to work demands

Apr 26 2016 5:07pm

Lawyer issues legal threat to restaurant after it fails to serve soup with Saturday lunch special

"The menu is an offer for a contract by you. I accepted the offer"

Apr 26 2016 2:34pm

Nearly half of Irwin Mitchell’s new partners are women

Includes two who did their training contracts at the national firm

Apr 26 2016 1:00pm

One Direction? Judge halts trial because he has no idea who boyband is

“I am more of a Bach man myself”

Apr 26 2016 11:57am

Top barrister says NUS’s no-platform policies could be unlawful

Student petitions to ban university campus talks not compatible with free speech law

Apr 26 2016 10:10am

*Scrapping Human Rights Act facepalm*

Patrick Stewart appears in comedy pro-ECHR video, but not all lawyers are impressed

Apr 26 2016 9:27am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 26 April

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Apr 26 2016 7:57am

Emotional triumph for Northern Irish state school in Bar National Mock Trial at the Old Bailey

Citizenship Foundation competition now in its 25th year, and is still fierce in its combat against the bar’s social mobility problem

Apr 25 2016 11:47pm

A sleepless Prince

Google's algorithms throw up an interesting comment on (some) lawyers' lives

Apr 25 2016 6:14pm

Number of training contracts registered jumps by nearly 500 in a year

Law students welcome first major increase since financial crash

Apr 25 2016 3:18pm