Tag Archives: Legal Futures

Morning Round-Up: Friday 25 January

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From Wolverhampton Poly to video games law glamour: How neighbour's invention of a computer game propelled solicitor Robert Bond on an incredible journey [Financial Times]

Earl of Cardigan 'spat and threw stones' at barristers' clerk [The Telegraph]

The milestones in a lawyer's career when finding a new role makes sense [The Guardian]

Five minutes with the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [Chambers Student]

Lindsay Lohan's longtime lawyer quits [Female First]

Allen and Overy creates new jobs in Belfast [BBC News]

Law Society warns solicitors to protect themselves against "biased" barristers’ terms [Legal Futures]

Context is everything – European Court of Human Rights struck out 99% of UK cases in 2012 [UK Human Rights Blog]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Baroness Scotland QC told by school careers adviser that best she could hope for was to be a supervisor at Sainsbury's [The Guardian]

Associate who told partners of his ‘superior legal mind’ (pictured) loses appeal [ABA Journal]

Programming bootcamp converts lawyer into hacker [Wired]

Horrifying anti-gay graffiti found at US law school [Business Insider]

Supreme Court rejects bid to extend legal professional privilege to non-lawyers [Legal Futures]

Listen carefully: jeopardising legal advice services is reckless [The Guardian]

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 22 January

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Brazilian judge rules that Fifty Shades of Grey should be removed from bookshops [Marie Claire]

Twitter Joke Trial QC reignites feud with Keir Starmer [John Cooper QC on Twitter]

Liberia's Charles Taylor to begin appeal at The Hague [BBC News]

Robert Jay QC: UK press 'most unruly and irreverent in world' [The Guardian]

Man who raped daughter for ten years gets suspended sentence [Irish Times]

Barristers fear QASA boycott will lead to loss of right to practise [Legal Futures]

Morning Round-Up: Friday 18 January

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A lawyer’s amazingly detailed analysis of Bilbo’s contract in The Hobbit [Wired]

Former Leeds University law student to defend Bo Xilai in court [The Telegraph]

Girlfriend of Reddit co-founder who hanged himself says US legal system mercilessly hounded him to his death [Mail Online]

War on judicial review (sort of) [UK Human Rights Blog]

Circuits call heads of chambers meetings to consider QASA boycott [Legal Futures]

Kate Winslet's husband Ned RocknRoll is not a public figure, says judge [The Independent]

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 17 January

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In defence of the existing law on social media [UK Criminal Law Blog]

High street firms in ‘increasingly precarious’ position [Solicitors Journal]

International Criminal Court snowman [Mark Kersten on Twitter]

Solicitor finally paid for Chinese vase after long legal battle… but only gets half of the £50m it went for at auction [Mail Online]

Betfair founder revealed as principal investor in new ABS [Legal Futures]

Law firm 'ran sham marriage scam' [Buxton Advertiser]

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 15 January

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Lindsay Lohan 'owes fired lawyer Shawn Holley $300k in legal fees'... amid reports she wants him back on board [Mail Online]

Julie Burchill, free speech and the Lynne Featherstone clause [Head of Legal]

Google-backed crowdsourced legal advice service heads to the UK [Legal Futures]

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has not asked a question in court for nearly seven years, has spoken to a lawyer presenting a case [BBC News]

Acclaimed barrister demoted from QC [Pink Tape]

Forced flu shots? Can’t sick people just stay at home? [Above the Law]

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]