Author: Alex Aldridge
‘Law Undergraduate of the Year’ competition removes minimum A-level requirement after Twitter uproar
AAB requirement no longer applies, confirms City law firm sponsor
Junior barrister arrested following death of boyfriend in Temple flat
Strand Chambers' Henry Hendron has been bailed until March
Morning round-up: Monday 26 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
University offers module in marijuana law
Legalisation of marijuana in Colorado set to spawn generation of weed lawyers
Bar Standards Board makes grovelling apology after being savaged by top judge
Professional body found to have withheld key evidence by Court of Appeal
The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released
Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet
Someone has done a poo on the floor of Westminster Magistrates Court
Solicitor’s tweet about excrement on floor of Westminster Magistrates Court leads to Vice interview
King’s College ditches plan to rebrand as ‘King’s London’
Was it wannabe solicitor's class action threat wot won it?
Morning round-up: Monday 19 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
You might want to avoid White & Case’s canteen
London office of US firm given 1/5 hygiene rating by Food Standards Agency
Research: 77% of rookie tenants at top 30 chambers went to Oxbridge
Top end of the junior bar is dominated by Oxford and Cambridge -- to a far greater extent than leading law firms
Have you seen missing Durham law student Euan Coulthard?
Law second year last seen leaving Durham nightclub Loveshack
A QC has made a lawyer version of Twitter with ‘moots’ rather than tweets
A new frontier for social media?
Legal profession has best-ever showing in gay-friendly employer rankings
Three law firms make top 10 of Stonewall list, seven more in top 100 -- and one granted "star performer" status. Plus the CPS is there too
Queen Mary and Reed Smith combine to launch sandwich law degree — with guaranteed training contract interview
The law sandwich degree is here
BBC throws jobless LPC students a training contract lifeline
New in-house TCs start in September this year
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
Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to ‘northshore’ with Manchester support office
City law firms' quest for lower overheads and staff costs continues
London offices of US giants follow magic circle in bringing forward vac scheme application deadlines
Deadlines for London offices of Shearman & Sterling, Latham & Watkins and Sullivan & Cromwell are next week -- joining handful of other firms
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
Robot solicitors? Firm and uni team up to apply artificial intelligence to law
Potential bad news for training contract hunters of the future ...