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Morning round-up: Thursday 14 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Nosy bosses CANNOT read your private WhatsApp conversations due to ECHR ruling
Reporters can't resist getting a human rights story wrong
Lord Chief Justice says judges are feeling stressed out at work
Even judges aren’t immune from the stresses and strains of the working world
Top judge calls for lawyerless courts
Bad news for law students
Hilarious parody video mocks privileged white law graduate
Short comical clip mimics a recent Western Sydney University ad involving Sudanese refugee law graduate
The solicitors who quit the City to work in sexy areas of law
Get a TC, get some money and then get out to do crime and media work
Morning round-up: Wednesday 13 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
‘I’m a disillusioned science PhD: should I do the GDL?’
Career salvation as a lawyer, potentially...
Trowers & Hamlins improves on poor autumn trainee retention performance
Period of unpredictable retention rates continues for national firm as it posts an 88% spring 2016 result
Co-op training contract freeze continues despite expansion
Hype of "100 training contracts a year by 2017" a distant memory
Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k
London set bucks downward pay trend
Morning round-up: Tuesday 12 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
David Bowie used to be a paralegal based near Lincoln’s Inn
British music legend sadly passed away yesterday after 18-month battle with cancer
Daily Mail hate against lawyers reaches unprecedented levels
National newspaper enraged by solicitors “hounding” of British troops
Labour’s top lawyer quits citing ‘increasingly negative path’ under Jeremy Corbyn
Shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell has resigned -- Karl Turner replaces her
Just 23% of new QCs are women — but Boris’ wife is one of them
Ethnic minorities also under-represented as -- surprise, surprise -- white men dominate silk appointments
BPP law student charged with murder appears in court — but does not enter plea
GDL student's next hearing scheduled for March
Morning round-up: Monday 11 January
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Magic circle firm Linklaters reveals what staff parties were like over 100 years ago
Historic image shows top City lawyers of the time enjoying a lavish dinner -- and there's not a woman in sight
Number of students studying undergraduate law degrees has risen by 28% since 2007
LLBs are booming -- and increasingly dominated by women
Social mobility charity’s ‘Model Law Commission’ gets students thinking about what being a lawyer actually means
Big Voice London aims to bring people who see the world differently into the profession