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Aberdeen University law student found dead in her halls

The police are not treating her death as suspicious

Mar 22 2016 9:22am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 March

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Mar 22 2016 7:59am

15 tweets Lord Denning would have made had he been on Twitter

We bet the king of dissents would've been big on hashtags

Mar 21 2016 4:55pm

Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers

Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process

Mar 21 2016 2:44pm

Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester

Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action

Mar 21 2016 1:36pm

Supreme Court shatters law geeks’ wedding dreams

Highest court in the land opens its doors to private hire events -- but has no licence for couples to tie the knot

Mar 21 2016 1:01pm

Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine

Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars

Mar 21 2016 10:04am

Coders create new portal for law centre in pro bono hackathon

System could boost efficiency in delivery of free advice

Mar 21 2016 9:32am

Judges’ Crown Court sentencing remarks to be filmed for first time

Pilot could see parts of high profile trials shown live on TV

Mar 21 2016 7:59am

Morning round-up: Monday 21 March

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Mar 21 2016 7:48am

Top lawyers draw upon ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to give students careers advice

It seems the inspirational drag queen has some tips for budding solicitors and barristers

Mar 18 2016 12:56pm

‘Law student’ who claimed to be at BPP pleads guilty to Christmas Eve murder

Carl Langdell said he was doing GDL at BPP, but law school denies all knowledge of him

Mar 18 2016 11:09am

Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic circle

Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100%

Mar 18 2016 10:51am

First ever City law firm business school trains up 250 junior lawyers to advise start-ups

Programme is part of wider corporate law drive to up-skill trainees

Mar 18 2016 10:00am

What’s next for the UK’s most followed law student?

Energy law dreams vie for attention with Instagram career

Mar 18 2016 9:22am

Morning round-up: Friday 18 March

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Mar 18 2016 8:26am

How do you play a networking event?

The debatable usefulness of small talk over a glass of wine

Mar 17 2016 2:25pm

Exclusive legal profession poll: 75% want to stay in EU

Survey of 1,000 lawyers and law students shows massive opposition to Brexit

Mar 17 2016 12:14pm

Apprentices set to go head-to-head with first year law students for top solicitor jobs

LLBers, beware of hotshot school-leavers with much more experience than you

Mar 17 2016 9:26am

Morning round-up: Thursday 17 March

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Mar 17 2016 8:03am

Lawyers’ professional privilege under threat from Snoopers’ Charter

And Theresa May fails to reassure the legal profession

Mar 16 2016 3:19pm