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Revealed: The best law firms for tech 2018-19
The results from the new Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey are in

Countdown begins for UK’s only careers event for STEM students interested in becoming lawyers
Dedicated law careers event for STEM students takes place on evening of 14 November

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner gives law students a taste of trainee life with virtual reality goggles
It's not the first time a City law firm has embraced headset-style tech

Baker McKenzie’s lawyers and trainees can now wear jeans
But global giant’s recently relaxed dress code policy does not extend to leggings, flip-flops or trainers

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner posts 79% autumn retention score
Recently-merged global player retains 15 of its 19 rookies

ULaw appoints ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger as chancellor
He stepped down from the UK's top bench last year

Dentons and Addleshaw Goddard boost NQ pay to £75k and £70k
Rises for trainees too
Richer law students should subsidise poorer ones with new levy, Dundee law lecturer proposes
While Durham law student achieves crowdfunding success for his law degree in ONE MONTH

The first set of corporate law firm financial results are looking strong
Good times return to the City

Legal work experience opportunities fall by 11%
Biggest industry decrease

Podcast: ‘There were only three women in the whole firm’ — corporate law pioneer Fiona Woolf on gender diversity in the law
We’ve come a long way since the 1970s -- but not far enough

Four City lawyer tips for training contract application success
Solicitors from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, CMS, Gowling WLG, Pinsent Masons and ULaw explore the themes that lawyers of the future should be thinking about

‘I am first and foremost a lawyer — my media appearances are just an added bonus’
Employment lawyer Kevin Poulter sits down with Legal Cheek to discuss social media, Alan Titchmarsh and his latest podcast project

‘I’m a former magic circle lawyer with 20 years’ experience in legal education — this is how to secure a training contract’
A sneak peek at the hints and tips The University of Law's professor Alexis Mavrikakis will share at this evening's Secrets to Success event

Partners are ‘coasting to retirement’ and ‘chronically under-performing’, says new research
US law firms living in 'false sense of security' -- is the same true in the UK?

MPs take aim at magic circle over Russia dealings and Carillion collapse
Politicians' knives out for cream of corporate law crop

‘Time spent being innovative counts towards billable targets,’ Reed Smith tells lawyers
Following a successful pilot

The story of Christabel Pankhurst, the law graduate suffragette barred from joining an Inn
We pick up the trail of the female suffrage campaigner coined 'Queen of the Mob' by the press, 100 years after (some) women got the vote

Deadline for gender pay gap reporting is today — here’s how law firms have done
The outfits with the biggest (and smallest) pay gaps in the City