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Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut
QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them
Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London
Morning round-up: Friday 19 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal
Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny
Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment
Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law
Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000
Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers
Morning round-up: Thursday 18 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Appeal judge who was cleared of flashing on packed commuter train retires at 65
Lord Justice Richards hangs up his robes
Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit
Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks
Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks