‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students
Two of the applications received legal support from students at Northumbria University and BPP Law School
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Research: Law degrees are more reliant on EU funding than languages degrees
University law faculties receive millions of pounds a year from Europe — will Brexit change this?
Nottingham Trent’s student-staffed ‘teaching law firm’ launches commercial advice arm
Legal centre was handed an ABS licence by the SRA in 2015
Pro bono appeal: Manchester Law Society calls on lawyers to help victims of arena terrorist attack
Twenty-two people killed after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande concert
BPP criminal law exam delayed by over an hour due to shortage of question papers
Exclusive: GDL-ers were told to remain in their seats while the problem was resolved
LSE law second year wins the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize
Izaan Khan edges BPP Law School graduate to win return transatlantic flight
London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km charity event
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‘Don’t make snap decisions too soon’, SRA tells aspiring solicitors contemplating whether to take the LPC or the super-exam
Exclusive video interview: Legal Cheek speaks to the regulator’s director of education and training
ULaw strikes LPC and GDL deal with the University of Reading
Postgrad courses on offer at Berkshire-based campus from this September
Why junior lawyers shouldn’t be afraid of AI, by a law student
We shouldn’t waste the abundance of opportunities out there
Baker McKenzie lawyer reunited with have-a-go hero law student who helped him during train station attack
John Rowley urges the final year to follow in his footsteps and become a prosecutor
Distance learning: desirable or a disadvantage?
I live in Hong Kong, but my law school is in London
University of Leeds produces ultimate law school ‘league table of league tables’
The power list combines rankings from ‘The Complete University Guide’, ‘The Times University League Table’ and ‘The Guardian University Rankings’
It’s easier to get a place on a law degree than a European languages, history or philosophy degree
Exclusive: Law is the eighth most competitive university course
Donald Trump gave a speech that sounded a lot like the one given by Elle Woods in Legally Blonde
No bend and snap though 😢
Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms — but not always in Britain
Warwick and Edinburgh leapfrogged by London South Bank in shock new Guardian law degree rankings
Dark days for regional Russell Group-ers
Baker McKenzie partner attacked at train station, law student jumps in to help
Now John Rowley wants to find the have-a-go hero so he can say thank you
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I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my training contract in London later this year
Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work
National holiday hysteria: What is it about celebratory days that make law students commit crimes?
Christmas time seems to be the worst
Simpson Millar paralegal with endometriosis asks public to help fund her Oxford BCL course so she can become a barrister
‘There are not many people who make it to the bar as a disabled person’
The number of applications made to study law this year has increased more than any other course
Exclusive: Most university subjects reporting a drop
Legal aid in, tuition fees out: Labour’s leaked manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn promises the world
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Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong Kong and Australia offices
Watch Laura Kendrick’s video — and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists — below
White & Case boosts London NQ pay packets by 17% to £105,000
Trainees will trouser an extra £2,000
15 things that will absolutely, definitely happen in your law school exams this summer
Will you be the one to get your statute book confiscated?
Law lecturers accuse SRA of ‘disingenuous reporting’ over super-exam consultation responses
But regulator says it’s published everything it can
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Event: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate
Sixty free places up for grabs as Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences
History made: The number of law school applications from women is now over DOUBLE the number of applications from men
Exclusive: Female first years likely to outnumber men two to one
Meet the London Met law student who took the Government Legal Service to court over her training contract rejection, and won
She’ll be applying again this summer
LSE tort exam includes question about ‘Nigel’ and ‘Donald’ drinking beer and crashing a plane into the River Thames
Exclusive: ‘Boris’ also gets knocked off his bike
CMS implements new ‘dress code guidance’ to help its suit-favouring lawyers blend in with more casual Olswang colleagues
The two firms merged with Nabarro last week
Law students are more likely to be psychopaths than their psychology-studying peers — but economics and business students are the ‘darkest’
The study looked Machiavellianism and narcissism too
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‘It’s not appropriate’: Top judge expresses concern over McKenzie friends after hearing criminal appeals prepared by law students 
The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’ 
Hogan Lovells bumps junior lawyer pay packets by 5% to £75,000
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