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Morning round-up: Monday 10 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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The Judge Rules: career-focused millennials spell doom for the GDL
Like James Blunt, the law conversion course is just so 2005
Uni of Law ditches Birmingham part-time BPTC just six weeks before start date
Exclusive: Students with part-time places told to head to London instead
Killjoy bar leaders aim to phase out dining requirement for qualification as a barrister
Age-old tradition of drunken bread roll fights looks set to be pensioned off as it's not sufficiently educational
Morning round-up: Friday 7 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Number of bad-boy barristers drops as disbarments tumbled last year
Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards
Fact check: Oxbridge-obsessed chambers claims to be a ‘varied and diverse place’
20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter
Blogger is first Open University student to bag Harvard Law School scholarship
From the heights of Legal Cheek to slumming it in the Ivy League
Trendy London law firm does its bit to tackle erectile dysfunction
Diversity recruitment agency announcement suggests Olswang has got into the good wood game
Morning round-up: Thursday 6 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Ministry of Justice slaps penniless tramps with whopping court charges to bolster coffers
The desperate monetisation of Britain’s criminal justice system
Shearman & Sterling’s London office switches Kaplan for Uni of Law in LPC deal
Contract kicks off this September in a post-sale boost for university
Meet the ‘Humans of Law’
Inspired by global social media sensation “Humans of New York”, two Legal Cheek work experience students have set up a legal profession version
Crime legal aid firms are forced to offer cheap ‘McJustice’ to clients, says strike leader
Head of London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association also has a pop at legal education establishment
Morning round-up: Wednesday 5 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
US judge receives sexy courtroom send-off with handcuffs and whip
Judge’s retirement party interrupted by scantily clad singing telegram dressed as a police officer
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With the courts closed and the legal profession in holiday mode, what better opportunity to do lots of pointless presentations?
University of Law launches money back guarantee for out-of-work LPC students
ULaw offering 50% rebate of fees for those unable to secure job in "legal or commerce"
Andy Burnham bids to battle Corbyn by being friend to legal aid lawyers
Leadership election manifesto of former health secretary calls for a review of recent cuts
Morning round-up: Tuesday 4 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts