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Why is nobody talking about this Friday’s Inns of Court scholarship deadline?
£5 million in cash and rent-free flats in central London up for grabs, but publicity is minimal
Inner Temple awards top scholarship to bencher’s daughter
Exclusive: £22,000 BPTC prize goes to student with very close family connection to Inn
Morning round-up: Friday 28 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware
How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?
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
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
Ministry of Justice slaps penniless tramps with whopping court charges to bolster coffers
The desperate monetisation of Britain’s criminal justice system
The bar’s battle against elitism
Baby boomers wake up to urgent need to help millennials
Pupillage Gateway moved to January so students know if they have chambers place before committing to BPTC
Exclusive: Finally, a move to protect wannabe barristers
How to fund your way through the BPTC
By bagging two scholarships and working part-time, University of Law bar graduate Sam Frost was able to keep costs down as he pursued his barrister ambitions
Morning round-up: Monday 22 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Morning round-up: Thursday 4 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Mayer Brown and ULaw combine to offer earn-while-you-learn law degree and LPC that bypasses training contract
City firm targets hot shot 18 year-olds
Revealed: how law school fees have spiralled far beyond rate of inflation since the millennium
Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers
The campaign for the trainee solicitor minimum salary is being resurrected
Battle to protect trainee pay not over yet
11 reasons to think twice about doing the BPTC
Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first
5 predictions for the legal profession in 2015
A splintering graduate recruitment model will create opportunities for savvy wannabe lawyers, forecasts Legal Cheek managing editor Alex Aldridge
Legal apprenticeship schemes — cheap labour for law firms?
Some apprentices are paid less than half what their trainee counterparts earn -- raising suggestions that the role could revolutionise legal profession training
‘There are not as many jobs for traditional lawyers as there used to be’
Chartered Institute of Legal Executive president Fran Edwards expects more students to follow her on-the-job route into the profession over the coming years
5 reasons why today’s vote won’t matter to the legal profession because Scottish lawyers already do things so very differently
There’s going to be some sort of democratic bonanza in a place made famous by an American-Australian actor in a Hollywood epic — but as far as the Scottish legal profession is concerned, it’s already independent
Why are Scottish lawyers paid so much less than English ones?
Huge pay differentials at top corporate firms north and south of border