Morning round-up: Thursday 23 October

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By Thomas Connelly on

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

newspapers3Retired judge Sir John Royce says it “saddened him” to advise his own sons not to join the publicly-funded bar [BBC News]

Boris comes out against Chris Grayling’s plans to lock up internet trolls [Guido Fawkes]

Initiative promises legal advice for those without lawyers in courts [The Guardian]

Legal aid firm in shock closure: all staff at London practice Mackesys have been made redundant [Law Society Gazette]

Why huge salaries don’t necessarily make law grads rich [Businessweek]

Surely this isn’t legal?! Rochdale cab firm allows passengers to choose driver’s colour [BBC News]

Falconer condemns Grayling’s “heart-breaking” comments on role of Lord Chancellor [Legal Futures]

5 legal career tips we learnt from #LegalCheekLive [LexisNexis]

Criminal lawyer quits job to become a singer [Yorkshire Post]

“A tactic to intimidate lawyers”: Facebook sues DLA Piper for bringing “fraudulent” US lawsuit [Legal Business]

Yoda firm fined £369,000 for libelling digital rival [BBC News]

Lawyer filmed himself asking employee for sex 78 times in one hour [The Age]

German-speaking banking paralegal sought by prestigious international City law firm [Legal Cheek jobs]

Heard in court [Facebook]

“What on earth would have happened had it been client files?!” [Legal Cheek Comments]