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Morning round-up: Monday 11 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Half of Allen & Overy’s new London partners are women
Internationally the figure is 29%, as firm homes in on rather low gender diversity target
Scammers clone Burges Salmon’s website to create fake law firm
Maybe avoid applying for a training contract with 'Owen & Harvey Solicitors'
11 ways in which the teachings of Donald Trump can guide lawyers to success
Reinterpreting the preposterous Art of the Deal
Morning round-up: Friday 8 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Man behind criminal law syllabus shake up to face retrial for murder
An appeal by Ameen Jogee saw the law on joint enterprise drastically changed, but his fate still hangs in the balance
Ashurst keeps 15 out of 19 qualifying trainees
79% of rookies stay with firm
Cambridge PhD law student who spends spare time dressing up as the Insect Overlord coming to a chambers near you
When studying law all gets too much…
Morning round-up: Thursday 7 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Med neg giant combines with ULaw to launch solicitor apprenticeship with law degree
New Fletchers programme modelled on law school's scheme with Mayer Brown
Norton Rose Fulbright racks up strong newly-qualified solicitor retention rate of 96%
All bar one spring qualifier will remain at the global giant
Leaked Mossack Fonseca document leaves London law firm exposed
Eminent private client outfit remains tightlipped over dealings with Azerbaijan president's daughters
Lancaster law student believed to have died fighting for ISIS
Khalif Shariff enrolled at the law school in 2014, but abandoned his LLB to flee to Syria
York law student claims antisemitism on the increase at UK universities
“I feel quite uncomfortable on campus, it’s quite intimidating”
Morning round-up: Wednesday 6 April
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Off the Cuff: Dress Code shocker as HMP Belmarsh seeks to ban visiting lawyers from wearing cufflinks
First they came for our cufflinks… bar appalled at what might be banned next
The Law Society has just wasted £7 million on a failed business venture — here is what they could have spent it on
Independent review reveals a catalogue of errors led to conveyance software flop
Missing Queen Mary law undergrad found dead in Slovenia
He had not been seen since February