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Linklaters and Clifford Chance latest firms to pay for gender reassignment surgery
Transitioning support also available for lawyers and support staff
It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers
Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners
Pinch on the bum not indecent assault in age of ‘twerking’ and internet porn, judge finds
Australian appeal court upholds acquittal of cop for touching woman at basketball tournament
Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’
Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister
Estonia to build ‘robot judge’ to clear case backlog
Baltic nation's justice officials call on services of 28-year-old AI whizz
London lawyer jailed for misleading FBI during Trump-Russia probe to face disciplinary tribunal
'Allegations are as yet unproven', says SRA
Law student in hopeless ‘crash for cash’ claim
'Wholly incredible and inconsistent'
City law firms prepare to overhaul training structures as SQE nears
Legal Cheek-BARBRI super-exam survey results revealed
Law firm ordered to compensate transgender client after ‘using her birth name’
Incident had 'emotional impact' on complainant, Legal Ombudsman finds
And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards 2019 are…
Gongs galore for industry’s top players, including firm of the year Taylor Wessing and ‘Most Admired’ chambers Blackstone
Litigant in person throws White Book at barrister
Lawyer lent self-representing claimant practitioners' text at judge's request
Edinburgh Uni law students want to ban non-law undergrads from using their newly-refurbished library
Frustration over lack of seating
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Children of lawyers 17 TIMES more likely to become lawyers themselves
A family business
Jailed paedophile barrister removed from legal profession
John Guess was a lawyer for the Welsh government
David Beckham plea-by-post highlights concerns over open justice
New procedure is labelled ‘justice-light’
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Lady Hale says judges don’t use social media for fear of trolls
You won't be Snapchatting a Supreme any time soon
Frustrated family judge who banged hand on desk was ‘sarcastic and condescending’
Issued formal advice