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Bar Council greets National Pro Bono Week with U2 quip

3 November 2014 16:35

The end of the training contract? Law school and firm combine to launch new ‘articled apprenticeship’ route

It means students working through their degree, but they could qualify as solicitors debt free

3 November 2014 14:40

The Citizenship Foundation is developing a very cool legal education app — and it needs law student and lawyer writers

Help charity create legal plotlines to engage young people with the law

3 November 2014 12:31

Inns scholarship money wasted on ‘expensive, unproductive’ BPTC, says former Lord Chief Justice

Entry to the bar could be on the verge of a historic overhaul

3 November 2014 10:05

Morning round-up: Monday 3 November

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

3 November 2014 07:57

For a judge that’s ‘right up to 11’: livid Sir James Munby launches most scathing attack on Grayling yet

Shocking case — which saw vulnerable couple and their child denied legal aid — makes the blood of nation’s top family judge boil

31 October 2014 19:00

Legal pic of the day

Halloween at the Inns of Court, featuring Darth Vader

31 October 2014 13:39

Halloween exclusive: Son of Dracula speaks to Legal Cheek — he’s a lawyer

Bela Lugosi Jr is a longstanding top flight Hollywood attorney who was instrumental in campaign for groundbreaking image rights legislation in California

31 October 2014 11:07

Bar regulators launch yet another education and training review

Latest reform package from Bar Standards Board seems long on jargon and short on specifics

31 October 2014 10:24