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Lawyers fail to impress in ‘best lovers’ list
Research places plasterers top for bedroom prowess -- legal professionals finish bottom

14 law firms named on LGBTQ+ employer list
Stonewall rankings recognise businesses efforts to create inclusive workplaces

Will City law firms join the Metaverse?
Where clients go, their lawyers will surely follow...

Virtual student event TODAY: The non-law dilemma — with Bird & Bird, Dentons and BPP
Thursday 24 February, 4pm to 6pm, taking place virtually

Judge uses ‘International Teddy Act 1908’ to help child adopt his teddies
Young boy penned letter to the Family Court of Western Australia 🧸

Judge Rinder to release thriller based on pupil barrister
TV star tells Legal Cheek new book is 'loosely based on truth'

Commercial law firm embraces crypto payments
Gunnercooke gets onboard with Bitcoin

‘I’m a non-law student totally confused by the new SQE’
I want to be a solicitor but I'm unsure what my options are

Hogan Lovells to move City HQ across the road
New digs from 2026

Law ties with investment banking in graduate salary rankings
Some new starters can expect to earn £50k

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

Virtual student event TODAY: Sector focus: the practice areas driving growth in 2022 — with Womble Bond Dickinson
Tuesday 22 February, 4pm to 6pm, taking place virtually

Dechert and Fried Frank raise junior lawyer salaries in London
£140k and £160k

Meet the aspiring barrister hoping to dismantle barriers and bring disability to the bar
BDABar founder Konstantina Nouka chats to Legal Cheek about her aims for the future

BPP strikes SQE training deals with international and national law firms
Law school giant to prep Dentons, Cripps and Walker Morris trainees

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Law firm invites training contract seekers ten-pin bowling
Recruitment with a twist 🎳

Matrix apologises for putting embargoed judgment on press release
Master of the Rolls calls for 'stricter measures' as elite set sticks ruling across social media in error

Online law school strikes SQE deal with Oxford Brookes
College of Legal Practice to offer prep courses at discounted rate

Revealed: The chambers with the most supportive barristers 2022
Which sets are like second families?