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Newly-qualified retention latest: Simmons clocks up 80%
City firm hangs on to 12 of 15 freshly minted solicitors -- and places one in house
Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo
Today's *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland -- but, hands up, it could happen to any of us ...
Former One Direction star Zayn Malik to be fast-tracked to bar pupillage (April Fool!)
Just days after jacking in boy band -- and with no traditional qualifications -- Zayn Malik has bagged a place at a magic circle chambers
Morning round-up: Wednesday 1 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Access to Freshfields’ new Manchester office is through a shopping centre
Lawyers at esteemed magic circle firm will be able to grab fast-food and trainers en route to work
Clifford Chance lawyers prepare to swap their suits for hoodies that are colour-coded by rank
No, it's not 1 April yet -- this is legit
Morning round-up: Tuesday 31 March
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Wirral Grammar School for Girls wins Bar National Mock Trial Final
Liverpool sixth formers emerge victorious from field of 2,000 students in final presided over by Sir Brian Leveson
Is this the youngest chambers pupil ever?
1KBW silk plonks the old horsehair on baby’s head in craven bid to win cute points from Twitterati
Real life Suits: Lawyer who practised for 10 years and made partner accused of faking qualifications
US "lawyer" Kimberly Kitchen is alleged not to have bothered with any legal training -- just like Mike Ross in legal drama Suits
Law firms run Oxbridge recruitment targets as high as 50% of trainees, says diversity chief
A senior Law Society figure claims unofficial bias in favour of elitism remains rife among City and large commercial firms
Morning round-up: Monday 30 March
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
University of Law beats rivals to bag first teaching law firm licence
Nottingham left to lick its wounds as the country’s biggest law school is awarded alternative business structure status
CMS Cameron McKenna waves good-bye to 38% of spring NQs
CMS Cameron McKenna has kept just 16 of its 26 spring newly-qualified cohort, posting a comparatively woeful retention rate of 62%
The Judge rules: This is the end … for the criminal bar
Wannabe criminal barristers should “celebrate” yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling by spinning the classic Doors song and getting pissed to Jim Morrison’s prophetic lyrics
Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur
Never judge a law firm by its website
Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the advocates of the future?
Is it over for the rough diamonds in law?
Morning round-up: Friday 27 March
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Twitterati goes wild after Lord Wilson uses exclamation mark in Supreme Court judgment!
Even Lord Denning didn't go this far
Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees
Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round
Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition