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Shakespeare meets Silk — Supreme Court Justice idea’s time has come
Could this be the next smash global TV format?
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
Morning round-up: Thursday 28 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
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
Legal professor LOSES judicial review challenging cancellation of controversial Southampton Law School conference
High Court judge rules that academic freedom was not at stake
Research: UK’s WORST law schools for ’employability’
How did your law school fare?
Amal Clooney takes aim at Donald Trump in revealing BBC interview
And also gives four top tips for legal success
Law school satisfaction survey — rate your GDL/LPC/BPTC
How good is your postgraduate legal training?
Morning round-up: Wednesday 27 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
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
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
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"
Nearly half of Irwin Mitchell’s new partners are women
Includes two who did their training contracts at the national firm
One Direction? Judge halts trial because he has no idea who boyband is
“I am more of a Bach man myself”
Employment judge calls for new legislation to tackle ‘fattism’ in the workplace
But lawyers aren't convinced
Top barrister says NUS’s no-platform policies could be unlawful
Student petitions to ban university campus talks not compatible with free speech law
*Scrapping Human Rights Act facepalm*
Patrick Stewart appears in comedy pro-ECHR video, but not all lawyers are impressed
Morning round-up: Tuesday 26 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
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
A sleepless Prince
Google's algorithms throw up an interesting comment on (some) lawyers' lives
Number of training contracts registered jumps by nearly 500 in a year
Law students welcome first major increase since financial crash