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Law firm opens virtual boozer featuring pool tables, beer garden and DJ booth
'The Keystone Arms' 💻🍺
Slaughter and May partner leaves firm following internal probe
Regulator notified
Appeal court dismisses student’s discrimination claim against ULaw
Ian Nwabueze ordered to pay £5,000 in costs
9 TikToks to celebrate Legally Blonde 3 release date
Elle Woods returns to cinema screens in May 2022
‘Oh Lords, take a leaf from the lawyers’ standards’
In the wake of that Lord Kilclooney 'Indian' tweet, mature law student Laurence Cooper casts a critical eye over parliamentary standards
EXCLUSIVE: Top judge’s daughter who’s now a judge herself fronts judicial diversity campaign
The judiciary: where judges' daughters, not just their sons, can make it to the top
Minimum pay for pupil barristers up £94 in London and £279 elsewhere
Very modest uplifts didn't go down well on Twitter
Top QC under fire for suggesting pupil barristers should have ‘well polished shoes’ and a ‘proper haircut’
Former Bar Council chief Richard Atkins apologises for posting tweet quoting recently deceased judge
KPMG teams up with BPP to offer SQE training contract
Big Four player embraces solicitor training shake-up
Simmons & Simmons ups London NQ solicitor pay to £84,000
Boosts in Bristol too
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Virtual student events this week with Simmons & Simmons and TLT on the future of law and the green economy
Two free masterclasses about the hottest commercial awareness topics -- plus virtual networking with the firms' graduate recruitment teams
Top divorce firm Vardags in war of words with legal workers’ union following dress code leak
Dress code saga rumbles on
A&O restarts lawyer salary reviews and increases pay
NQs receive pay rise which falls £5k short of pre-COVID six-figure sum
Work here if you want an Irish practising certificate, UK solicitors told
Irish Law Society throws post-Brexit curveball
‘Middle Temple must strip Boris of his honorary status’
The PM is an honorary bencher. Some 'do-gooder' needs to put a stop to that, says mature law student Laurence Cooper
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Ex-Daily Mail editor who wrote infamous ‘Enemies of the People’ article set to become Boris Johnson’s director of communications
James Slack replaces Lee Cain who resigned over night
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ lawyer husband to leave DLA Piper
Doug Emhoff will leave global outfit by inauguration day on 20 January
Hogan Lovells offers fast-track path to TC assessment days with new virtual academy
Exclusive: For sixth-form students and up