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BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%

Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats

21 August 2015 13:19

Meek surrender or clever tactic? No one quite knows as lawyers suspend 52 day legal aid strike

Court boycott called off as "gesture of goodwill"

21 August 2015 11:23

The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware

How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?

21 August 2015 10:03

Solicitor struck off after fiddling train fares to pay LPC debts

Tribunal accepted young lawyer was under huge post-education financial pressure -- but fraud is fraud

21 August 2015 09:29

Morning round-up: Friday 21 August

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

21 August 2015 08:13

City firms fall over themselves to trumpet benefits of working one day-a-week from home

'Agile working' is the latest corporate law trend

20 August 2015 16:57

Personal injury solicitor storms off football pitch to head-butt supporter

Regulator to investigate lawyer’s park footie behaviour after he pleaded guilty to GBH

20 August 2015 11:43

Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’

But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game

20 August 2015 09:41

Morning round-up: Thursday 20 August

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

20 August 2015 08:10

Working class hero leads strike against government legal aid cuts from the tee

Picket line or round of golf? Picket line or round of golf? That’ll be a round of golf, then …

19 August 2015 15:32