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Chair of legal super-regulator steps down with immediate effect
Personal considerations

SQE: Regulator issues new guidance on mitigating circumstances
Candidates have five days to make a claim and taking a holiday doesn’t count

Simmons & Simmons unveils new managing partner
Emily Monastiriotis will take over the top role on 1 May

Junior lawyers will be ‘significantly replaced’ by technologists and data scientists, Paul Weiss boss predicts
Top lawyer foresees shifting roles in new tech-driven legal world

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

Top US firm says GenZ lawyers require ‘more handholding’ at work
Suggestion appeared in a job ad for Gibson Dunn

‘Inaccurate’ media lead to judicial death threats, says Lady Chief Justice
Baroness Carr calls for 'objective and accurate reporting'

Should the Supreme Court hear more criminal appeals? The Law Commission thinks so
Part of a wider set of proposals by an independent body

The best social media posts of the week
A round-up of online musings, memes and more

SRA chief exec to step down
Ends 12-year tenure at the top

Queen Mary partners with Barbri to offer SQE-ready LLMs
Prep built in

CMS expands in Hong Kong through alliance tie-up
Global firm bolsters Asia presence

Court delayed for nearly an hour due to jammed door
Files and lunch locked away

Overworked, underpaid and unsafe: judges speak out on life on the bench
Worrying findings in new survey

Former Walker Morris partner wins age discrimination claim after forced retirement at 63
Rules were intended to make way for younger lawyers