The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
British grandparents extradited to US plead guilty to fraud [The Telegraph]
US hid UK links in CIA torture report at request of British spy agencies [The Guardian]
Lords lean towards a lawyer Lord Chancellor [Law Society Gazette]
New law will prevent paedophiles soliciting pictures from children [The Telegraph]
Sir Keir Starmer: “People make assumptions about me which turn out to be wrong” [Ham & High]
Barrister who battled Boris caught up in Tory controversy in Sussex [Get West London]
“Named and shamed” barrister hits back at “misleading” ombudsman [Legal Futures]
New York SantaCon revellers hire lawyer to fight for the right to party [The Guardian]
Dan Bilzerian who chucked pornstar off roof now being sued for kicking woman in face [TMZ]
Sony Pictures’ top lawyer’s emails exposed in latest leak [Gizmodo]
Commercial property legal assistant/paralegal at well established Somerset based law firm [Legal Cheek jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“If Legal Cheek had been around when Mr. Costa (a fellow lawyer) refused to pay his 2 quid electricity bill from ENEL, I suspect most of the comments here would also be saying that he was a completely OTT douchebag.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
