Tag Archives: Law Society Gazette

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Comic book hero Judge Dredd "might be gay" [The Independent]

Metaphor of the week: "The Law Society is as useful as a marzipan dildo, especially when it comes to City law" [nob]

Being a general counsel: a dream job, or a nightmare? [Above the Law]

The Good Wife: series 4 episode 1 – review [The Telegraph]

Equal marriage on the way as Bill published [UK Human Rights Blog]

Pull up your socks, Johnny Foreigner [Law Society Gazette]

Eversheds chief explains that "everything we’ve done has had culture at the heart" as news breaks that 166 staff at the firm face the axe [The Lawyer]

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 23 January

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Lindsay Lohan's new lawyer is sponsored by 'foodie socialite' to allow him to represent her in court [Mail Online]

David Cameron speech: UK and the EU [BBC News]

Should you brag about your law school grades on Facebook? [Above the Law]

Convicted criminals and undeclared bankrupts were among the people nominated by law firms to be their compliance officers [Law Society Gazette]

The FBI doesn’t require reference checks, except for lawyer applicants [ABA Journal]

Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctors brawl during prison visit [Mail Online]

Morning Round-Up: Monday 21 January

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Threat to the courts system as barristers google jurors then alter speeches to win sympathy [The Times (£)]

Barristers google jurors to find out their likes, jobs and interests then tailor courtroom speeches to help win trials [Mail Online]

Business leaders have grown ‘diversity weary’ [Law Society Gazette]

Judge reminisces about his Cambridge days in punt dispute [Buxton Advertiser]

Tomorrow's Lawyers: access to justice in the online future – extract [The Guardian]

Barrister: "You have to play New Order; you have to take back what is rightfully yours" [Evening Standard]

US law school to become UK-style two year course? [National Law Journal]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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The new Titan prison idea could be a bit of a rightwing smokescreen, designed to burnish the justice secretary's tough man image [The Guardian]

One in five firms likely to seek external investment [Law Society Gazette]

Only half of police officers 'would report colleague who punched suspect' [The Telegraph]

CILEx CEO sees take-up difficulty for solicitor apprenticeship scheme [The Lawyer]

Sunday working, deportation and judicial review reform – The Human Rights Roundup [UK Human Rights Blog]

Final Legal Education and Training Review report delayed [Legal Futures]

Morning Round-Up: Friday 11 January

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Law's Mystic Meg: no future for high street firms, but window of opportunity for mid-sized practices [Legal Futures]

Can accountants change the legal sector? [Law Society Gazette]

Christians and working on Sundays: what the tribunal really said [The Guardian]

In defence of law school: because what else are you going to do with yourself? [Above the Law]

Backing for apprenticeships [Law Society]

Alex Salmond in clear over Europe legal advice row [Daily Record]

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 10 January

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Delhi gang rape lawyer says 'no respectable woman' would be raped [Huffington Post UK]

'An aid for your daily Twitter experience: Orwell's Two Minute Hate (remarkably prescient if you watch it)' [David Allen Green via Twitter]

Woman Bar leader sees end of ‘fat cat’ image [The Times]

Birmingham Law Centre faces the axe after a century [Law Society Gazette]

Cameroon judge frees two men jailed for 'looking gay' [Huffington Post UK]

Quinn Emanuel defies London’s legal gloom [Financial Times]

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 9 January

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Chris Grayling: Using same old probation services to cut reoffending is madness [The Telegraph]

Foreign national prisoners lose right to legal aid [The Guardian]

WikiLeaks soldier Bradley Manning has his sentence reduced over his treatment in military prison [Mail Online]

Matrix leads as Chris Huhne's partner appeals Daily Mail judgment [The Lawyer]

21 reasons why overly competitive people ruin everything [Buzzfeed]

PI sector predicts jobs haemorrhage [Law Society Gazette]