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Morning round-up: Monday 22 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Latham & Watkins is latest US firm in London to trumpet high newly-qualified retention rate
Californians will keep 95% of current UK trainees
Twitter dismay over new justice committee chair’s defence of legal aid cuts
Former barrister Bob Neill unveiled as parliamentary justice committee chairman
Now work-experience-charging firm exposed for alleged plagiarism
London niche practice forced to pull training contract blurb from website after striking similarities with wording of City and national firms were uncovered
Who is the mysterious cigar smoking London lawyer on Instagram?
Instagram user "Londonlawyer" is a social media mystery man, but is he actually a practising certificate-holder of any type?
The Judge Rules: Bar officialdom must tidy up the mess around ‘brand barrister’
Scraped through the BPTC but failed to bag a pupillage? Not to worry -- you can still call yourself a barrister
Morning round-up: Friday 19 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Top silk leads call for renegade criminal bar strike over legal aid cuts
Michael Mansfield QC lashes out at Criminal Bar Association decision to drop direct action plans
DLA in the soup over ‘wicked witch’ label for ex-client
Regulator called in after data retention disclosure unearths embarrassing emails
Breaking news: Shearman & Sterling retains all 13 of its London trainees
New Yorkers are first off the blocks for the “autumn” newly-qualified retention figures