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City lawyers pour cold water over proposed apprenticeship qualifying route
Professional regulators’ plans described as potentially weakening entry standards by not even requiring GCSEs
County court notice flags up the lack of love between barristers and solicitors
Segregation attempt triggers social media outrage from the larger branch of legal profession
Male solicitors are paid 38% more than women at commercial law firms
The sisters are taking a huge hammering worth thousands of pounds, according to research released yesterday
Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Exclusive: Reed Smith hands qualifying solicitors modest 1.5% pay rise
Trainees at Pittsburgh-headquartered practice do better, bagging 4% rise to take them to £38,500
Smartphones have made overtime culture ‘endemic’ in law, finds research
Study released today blames phones and tablets for allowing partners to deprive associates of almost all sleep
Sacked gun-wielding magistrate’s fury at ‘double standard’ over BSB investigator’s Dirty Harry-style photo
AK-47 posing magistrate frustrated over his fate as staffer at bar regulator goes unpunished for Facebook gun pose
Research: wannabe barristers are the biggest law student druggies
Legal Practice Course counterparts are the least keen, but when wannabe solicitors do take drugs they have penchant for cocaine
Morning round-up: Tuesday 16 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
PM hit with social media flack for Magna Carta banalities
David Cameron’s 800th anniversary message from windswept Surrey car park wins little more than derision