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]

Eddie Stobart drives into legal aid row [The Guardian]

Finding my true path: Why did I quit a successful law career? [Medium]

Top Scottish lawyer in race row after "Poles and Pakis" independence tweet [Huffington Post]

SRA: we expect more large law firms to go under [Legal Futures]

Client service, gone mad [Sara Randazzo on Twitter]

This makes me sad. From a law firm sales pitch: "If that means working more than 12 or 15 hours a day, seven days a week, we will do that."

— Sara Randazzo (@sara_randazzo) May 7, 2013

Meet the law student anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun [Foreign Policy]

Six stupid salutations (that every lawyer uses) [Bitter Lawyer]

Top QC: Scrap guilty verdicts, let jurors surf the internet during trials [The Sun]

Law firm urges Romanians to launch legal claims [Mail Online]

Society of Socialist Lawyers slams legal aid reforms [The Independent]

Lawyer faces prison after ‘huge’ drugs cache found [The Scotsman]

The glamour of the Bar [Family law barrister Lucy Reed on Twitter]

Most depressing premier inn ever... Should've paid three quid extra for the one round the corner...

— Lucy Reed (@Familoo) May 6, 2013

Solicitor who practised until 89 dies [The Sentinel]

Ex-Linklaters lawyer Dominic Raab: Time for us to reset skewed "human rights" [The Telegraph]

Morgan Cole solicitor Larkin Cen loses out in Masterchef final to Hackney DJ [The Independent]

Lawyers in Wales in strike action talks [BBC News]

Richard Susskind: With radical changes, law firms can beat recession [Bloomberg Law via YouTube]

Joshua Rozenberg: Should parliament give itself more powers? [The Guardian]

The Somalian sex offender we can't deport thanks to Strasbourg judges [The Telegraph]

John Grisham to publish A Time to Kill sequel [The Guardian]

Judge orders that former England footballer Lee Hendrie be arrested and brought before the court following his failure to appear for bankruptcy hearing [Mail Online]

Grace Dent: Celebrities are in the dock and we’re the judge and jury. It all makes me uneasy [The Independent]

BPP to offer free qualifications to its jobless LPC grads (but not its jobless BPTC grads) [Legal Week]

North Korea sentences US citizen to 15 years' hard labour [BBC News]

Anger after Stobart Barristers chief describes criminal law firms as "very wounded animals ready to die" [Twitter]

I'm not a lawyer anymore but I find the Stobart Law wounded animal quote deeply crass and offensive.

— Kim Evans (@LifeInCustody) May 2, 2013

Manhattan lawyer known as the "Gentleman groper" gets slap on the wrist and could carry on practicing law after admitting to grabbing five women between the legs [Mail Online]

SAS sniper Danny Nightingale faces retrial over illegally possessing pistol [The Guardian]

ABS founder to appear on The Apprentice [Legal Futures]

The mating habits of the british barrister bird are one of the deep mysteries of the universe [Huffington Post]

Ambulance chasing law firms facing crackdown by ministers in move that could see insurance premiums drop [Mail Online]

Manchester council threat to sue website over coat of arms [Manchester Evening News]

Law student arrested for anti-semitic, racist, threatening comments [Above the Law]

Jacko’s family banned from court on day 2 of $40bn trial [The Sun]

Dappy loses appeal against six-month sentence after a brawl at petrol station [The Guardian]

More than 30 lawyers due to attend a meeting today in Plymouth to discuss concerns about the government's plans to reform criminal law [Plymouth Herald]