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Demands for universities to shop extremist students will be red-tape nightmare, say law school chiefs

Ministers are keen for vice-chancellors to monitor students for fundamentalist leanings -- but senior law academics have their doubts over practicalities

5 December 2014 12:43

A handy five-point plan on how to pull law students

Student website reckons it’s sussed how to cajole knackered, stressed and career-obsessed wannabe lawyers into the sack

5 December 2014 09:39

Exclusive interview: Felipe from The Apprentice on why he quit City law to follow his dreams

Former Latham & Watkins and Slaughter and May man learned lots from private practice, but doesn’t miss it — he tells Legal Cheek

5 December 2014 08:55

Morning round up: Friday 5 December

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

5 December 2014 08:16

Legal pic of the day

Law school -- but not as we know it

4 December 2014 15:56

The Apprentice Review: Bye-bye lawyers, it was fun, but in the end you were too clever by half

As legal profession interest in The Apprentice evaporates, our blogger looks back on the last hurrah of ex-Slaughter and May man Felipe as he follows family solicitor Lauren to the exit

4 December 2014 14:17

Law student, 80, graduates from Liverpool Uni

80-year-old former copper picks up law master degree -- but he’s not the oldest ever

4 December 2014 12:58

Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer fired from The Apprentice for ‘trying to be too smart’

Second solicitor ditched from hit BBC show by lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar

4 December 2014 10:23

Legal apprenticeship schemes — cheap labour for law firms?

Some apprentices are paid less than half what their trainee counterparts earn -- raising suggestions that the role could revolutionise legal profession training

4 December 2014 09:24

Morning round-up: Thursday 4 December

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

4 December 2014 08:04