Lawyer sues gym after personal trainer tells him to copy Beyoncé's signature pelvic thrust "leaving him unable to sit down" [Mail Online]

Leveson dismisses inquiry questions over opposing barristers' affair [The Guardian]

"Sweetheart" deal between HM Revenue and Customs and Goldman Sachs was flawed, but not illegal, the High Court rules [The Independent]

Law student sues law school for implying he’s litigious [Above the Law]

The criminal barrister who became a self help guru [Evening Standard]

The top-ranked university law faculties [Legal Week]

Chief says Stobart has moved on from board coups [Financial Times]

Applications to become judges double as squeezed barristers and solicitors head for the 'purple lifeboat' of the judiciary [The Guardian]

Sally Bercow due in court over libel claim [ITV News]

Court chaos fear as lawyers plan day of action against reforms [Manchester Evening News]

Dealing with opposing counsel [Bitter Lawyer]

Top media lawyer Mark Stephens celebrates Chelsea's Europa League win with club legend Pat Nevin [Twitter]

How *you* or *yours* could end up with a criminal record because of Grayling's witless proposals [A Barrister's Wife via @JackofKent]

Lawyer compares expert witness to street walker [Above the Law]

Doom and gloom and very black coffee [Pink Tape]

Ex-Berwin Leighton Paisner solicitor who stabbed his wife to death has prison sentence reduced [Local Guardian]

A quarter of jurors don't understand legal restrictions on internet use; 16% think they can't send emails [The Guardian]

Legal aid reform: let’s be civil – a call for calm [Lawyer Watch]

Women in the law: why big firms can learn from boutiques [The Lawyer]

A prayer for final exams [Instagram]

Bloomberg lawyer who trained reporters quit just days before it was revealed that journalists with company spied on its clients [Mail Online]

"I'm a 2.1 LLB graduate from Essex University, but I got CCC at A-level and I'm thinking of going back and re-taking them" [The Student Room]

Fresh questions for Leveson over lawyers' affair: MP says celebrity barrister's lover "did help to write report into Press" [Mail Online]

Judge bars affair revenge naked pictures [The Telegraph]

Facebook says its general counsel is leaving [Bloomberg News]

What is it about the Bar that attracted a 42 year old ex-army tank commander with no A-levels? [Charon QC]

Judge brands former Aston Villa keeper a "true stalker" [The Sun]

Carlos the Jackal's lawyer wife, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, demands he be sent back to Venezuela [Mail Online]

Criminal Bar Association chief fires volleys at government, QASA, BSB and Stobarts in bid to save lawyers from "oblivion" [Legal Futures]

Event – The legal method: pathway to truth or truncheon for the powerful? David Allen Green and Heather Brooke discuss [Eventbrite]

Blur drummer who trained as solicitor attacks government's legal aid plans [The Guardian]

Interpreter not sent to translate for a murder suspect - because the company said it was 'not worthwhile as they will not make enough money' [Mail Online]

Jerry Hayes could have said: Grayling’s reforms bode ill for rape victims [A Barrister's Wife]

The uncomfortable truth about rape [Jerry Hayes]

Cleveland Police pay more than £500,000 to Middlesbrough solicitor wrongly arrested [Northern Echo]

Newcastle lawyer changes career to welder [Chronicle Live]

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre: the controversial lawyer suing Ben Affleck for Argo [The Telegraph]

Neuberger: "Rather than talking about the end of the bar, barristers and other advocates should be working out how to ensure it survives" [The Telegraph]

Chasseurs d’ambulances [The Economist]

Twitter Reacts to Barbara Hewson [The Blog That Peter Wrote]

Law firms lose lustre as students mull alternative career options [Legal Week]

The law student UKIP councillor [Lincolnshire Echo]

Rome's Jewish leader forced to pay Nazi war criminal's legal costs [The Guardian]

"Daily Mail exposes 636 Fat Cats! Oh wait..." [Mail Online via the Criminal Bar Association on Twitter]

Leaving a final that I’m pretty sure I failed [#WhatShouldWeCallMe]

Dynamo Legal founder wins beer challenge on The Apprentice, despite blunder [BBC iPlayer]

"I cannot stand Jewish people": Solicitor almost loses her career over office rant about queue-jumping man at medical centre [Mail Online]

Porn, copyright and Star Trek: the best judicial ruling you'll ever read [The Guardian]

Postcard from The Staterooms [Charon QC]

Does LLM really stand for "lawyers losing money"? [Above the Law]

Legal aid tendering: will it actually work? Joshua Rozenberg attends an open meeting organised by the MoJ [The Guardian]

Yale law students refuse to participate in most impressive students list [Business Insider]

To be an ABS, or not to be: Shakespeares becomes one of largest firms to gain licence [Legal Futures]