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Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year

First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially

Aug 4 2014 8:59am

Morning round-up: Monday 4 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 4 2014 7:39am

Legal pic of the day

Happy Yorkshire Day!

Aug 1 2014 5:24pm

A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day

Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today

Aug 1 2014 1:45pm

Morning round-up: Friday 1 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 1 2014 8:01am

Legal pic of the day

Can a tattoo be legally binding?

Jul 31 2014 4:28pm

An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day

Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle

Jul 31 2014 4:16pm

Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf sale’ sign all day?

Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor

Jul 31 2014 9:41am

Morning round-up: Thursday 31 July

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jul 31 2014 8:06am

Legal pic of the day

Legal hurdles

Jul 30 2014 4:36pm

Judge told barrister to nip down to Chinese takeaway — for an interpreter

Glitch in outsourcing services blamed for lack of Mandarin speaker in trial at Cardiff Crown Court

Jul 30 2014 2:30pm

Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry

A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying -- but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper

Jul 30 2014 11:38am

Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become a luxury hotel

Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement's foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues

Jul 30 2014 9:06am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 July

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jul 30 2014 7:09am

Legal pic of the day

Notice board niggles

Jul 29 2014 4:25pm

Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm

The craze of getting the general public to finance a business -- and run the risk of failure -- has taken a giant leap in the legal profession

Jul 29 2014 12:14pm

Law: the fantasy Vs the reality

Life as a solicitor or barrister isn't always what it seems

Jul 29 2014 9:18am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 July

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jul 29 2014 7:57am

Legal pic of the day

Soldiers march past the RCJ during the First World War

Jul 28 2014 4:55pm

Can you help find missing Nottingham Uni law student Tom Nixon?

Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing law student

Jul 28 2014 3:37pm