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Allen & Overy lawyer to face tribunal over Weinstein NDA fiasco
Regulator confident lawyers' attitudes to non-disclosure agreements have changed

Six bar big hitters to speak at Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Dedicated barrister session to feature practitioners from Hardwicke and Cornerstone, alongside BPTC heads, academics and Inns' director

Government sets up contempt of court hotline to social media companies
As report reveals that Google search tool is naming sex crime victims

It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident

Irish law school apologises for ‘ill-judged’ Twitter response to mental health concerns
Maynooth Uni law student questioned decision to schedule land and equity exams the day after each other

Macfarlanes boosts LPC grant to £10,000 as it confirms 100% spring retention score
All six associates kept on

Email fraudsters impersonate Clifford Chance UK managing partner
Spell name wrong in dodgy emails

King’s College history student beats Oxbridge wannabe lawyers to ‘Advocate of the Year’ prize
Bar hopeful Tristan Greene victorious in BPP-backed comp

Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students' best route to solicitor qualification

Ministry of Justice signs historic online betting deal (April Fool!)
Package includes court naming rights and judges’ robe sponsorship
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Lawyers among worst for phone etiquette
Irritating habits include eating and drinking or interrupting those speaking, research finds

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

Top UK legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg confronts heckler during debate
'You be quiet sir'

2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them

Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal
Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute

Head of Nottingham Law School teaching law firm to join other top non-Russell Group academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
New session on clinical legal education to also feature universities Swansea and Northumbria, and leading apprenticeships provider