We'll be back on Wednesday 2 January. In the meantime, here are some of our most memorable stories from 2012...
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
2. Ex-Eastenders and Strictly Star Chris Parker On His Frustration With Law Firms’ A-Level Obsession
3. BPP Sparks Fury As Its Official Twitter Account Ridicules David Beckham’s Reading Ability
4. ‘Beautician Barrister’ Ditches BPP Law School To Do Bar Professional Training Course At Rival
5. ‘Can You Be A Lawyer With Tattoos?’ Asks Wannabe Barrister Professor Green
End Of The Day Round-Up
Lap dancer loses sacking claim [The Independent]
Matrix silk overturns Stringfellows stripper decision [The Lawyer]
Barrister at 4 New Square Chambers fails in race discrimination appeal [Bailii via Adam Wagner]
University of Leicester law graduate lives on £1 a day to help tackle poverty in Nicaragua [24Dash]
What's more entertaining than a law firm rejection letter riddled with typos? [Above the Law]
Just When You Thought Personal Injury Law Couldn’t Get Any Classier…‘Pimp My Claim’ Arrives
"After 16 years practising personal injury law I have now seen it all," wrote Zenith Chambers barrister Andrew Wilson yesterday evening on Twitter after spotting Bradford's 'Pimp my Claim'. But who owns it?
2012: ‘The Year Social Media Made It Onto The Legal Map’
Over a bottle or two of the finest Tesco Value red wine, the Legal Cheek team deliver their reflections on 2012 – and predictions for 2013...
‘I Fear That I Was Too Ready To Treat The View Of The Experienced As Gospel’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series, where leading members of the legal profession share their wisdom with the next generation of wannabes.
I have spent thirty years as an 'academic' – whatever that means – as a teacher of law and as part of a team founding a number of legal projects, including what is now a major law school. Some of these ventures were successful, others not, as is often the way in life, writes godfather of legal blogging Charon QC...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 21 December
Julian Assange: "democracy is the sum of our resistance" [Head of Legal]
'Julian Assange's speech, as it sounded in the street outside taxis, hecklers and all. (It gets better after a minute)' [Sound Cloud via Carl Gardner]
How the UK Border Agency nearly blew Robin Hood Airport "sky high" – a calamity at the "Twitter Joke Trial" airport of which you will not have heard [New Statesman]
5 people guaranteed to be at your office party [Bitter Lawyer]
MoD pays out millions to Iraqi torture victims [The Guardian]
How gossip transformed the legal industry [Details]