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Fox baseball bat QC avoids prosecution
RSPCA says that 'findings indicate the fox was killed swiftly' by Jolyon Maugham
Doughty Street veteran donates a cool £100k to former chamber mate Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign
As Rebecca Long-Bailey defends record as a solicitor
£60 million lawtech start-up closes ‘after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm’
Legal software specialist Atrium lays off all 100 employees
Blackstone barristers team up with education charity to create ‘Women in Law’ children’s book
Illustrated by school pupils
Meet the LinkedIn influencer and future City trainee helping students achieve training contract success
He’s racked up nearly 10,000 followers on the professional networking site
Shoosmiths faces social media backlash over International Women’s Day ‘male champions’ panel
Discussion features three men and one woman as part of 'GOOD Guys' initiative
Blackstone barrister appointed Oxford Uni college’s first female president
Dinah Rose QC lands top role at Magdalen College
Coronavirus outbreak: lawyers in Vienna and New York hospitalised
Firm staff also test positive
Linklaters introduces tech modules for trainees
Magic circler drafts in law and computer science whizzes from Swansea University
CMS launches app to track lawyers’ carbon footprints
Global firm will plant a tree for every user ??
Trowers posts 80% spring trainee retention score
8 out of 10
The websites charging barrister hopefuls as much as £200 an hour for pupillage interview advice
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Writer wonders if he should have become a corporate lawyer
Sunday Times’ Josh Glancy unsettled by wealth divide opening up between him and pals from Oxford who went into law
Barrister fails to overturn £1,000 fine for ‘racially charged’ tweet
High Court rejects argument Twitter is 'famously rude and offensive'
Baker McKenzie’s London office reopens after employee tests negative for coronavirus
Sent staff home on Thursday
Law students are ‘arrogant, narcissistic and power-hungry’, claims youth news website
The Tab takes pop at legally-minded undergrads -- and not for the first time