Two lawyers admit posting rants under pseudonyms on newspaper website about active cases and sitting judges [The Economist]
Exhibition: India’s first woman lawyer [National Portrait Gallery]
Where are the barristers frolicking in the snow?! [Inner Temple via Twitter]
DWF announces merger with London-based insurance law firm [Liverpool Daily Post]
Legal analysis of Ned Rocknroll's controversial privacy win [Inforrm]
#PippaTip: be careful in the snow [Pippa Middleton Tips]
Court told that solicitor tried to get his wife to lie for him when he was caught drink driving on New Year’s Eve [The Argus]
The Libor scandal: Year of the lawyer [The Economist]
Legal challenges for saunas [Law & Sexuality]
The biggest human rights stories of 2012 – Part 4 of 4 [UK Human Rights Blog]
In-house salaries continue to trail inflation [Law Society Gazette]
Free the Press, free the Judges [The Independent]
Law firms: the priciest partnerships [The Economist]
California ruling limits scope of law banning 'gay conversion' therapists [The Guardian]
A verdict on our judges: too white, too male [The Times (£)]
MPs on the each side of the Leveson debate [Guido Fawkes]
Buying in: Thoughts on making partner – the personal [Above the Law]
LSB ‘still needed’, government tells the Lords [Law Society Gazette]
Gateley to axe 19 fee-earner positions from English offices [The Lawyer]
Naked man who climbed statue of Duke of Cambridge had 'psychotic episode', court hears [The Telegraph]
The trials and tribulations of two legal bloggers [The Conversation]
Secret Courts remixed: any better than the original? [UK Human Rights Blog]
That Facebook copyright protection notice is an urban myth [Forbes]
Lord Macdonald QC: It’s an outrage when help has been cut for the poor [Evening Standard]
Deadline for outgoing Pegasus Scholarships (tenants/employed up to 5 years practice) is 30 November [Inner Temple]
Judging the judges: Money and back-room politicking are contaminating the selection of US judges [The Economist]
Law graduate guilty of benefit fraud [Rugby Advertiser]
The other day I had a coffee with the guy who many of the top law firms bank with, Barclays head of professional services Tom Wood.
As we sipped our expensive cappuccinos, while inwardly thanking our lucky stars that we'd been born ten years later than the current cohort of graduates being spluttered out of universities into a barren job market, Wood made a really good point:
"It’s strange that law schools don’t teach students about the legal market,” he remarked.
"Because with the lack of jobs, and all the changes taking place with Alternative Business Structures (ABS), it would be really useful for them to know more than many do at present."
It’s so true! Most law students’ knowledge of the rapidly changing legal market they hope to join is gleaned from the generalist musings of often-incompetent law school careers advisors, or the sort of PR-laden garbage churned out by many legal publications. They don’t need to know loads, just a few important basics. And the starting point is that right now there are basically four different types of law firm – and two of those are fast-heading for extinction...
Baker & McKenzie, Hogan Lovells and Reed Smith among the "50 best law firms for women" [Above the Law]
"The Commission has adopted my proposal for a European law so that women represent 40% of company board members by 2020" [EU Justice commissioner Viviane Reding via Twitter]
Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital [The Irish Times]
Translating and the law: Legal language [The Economist]
"The many law students wondering if the rotten legal job market will ever improve should take note. The twin forces of globalisation and technology may put many mediocre lawyers out of business. But those who master languages and computers may find themselves in demand."
Illegal immigrant and failed asylum seeker handed £24,000 by Human Rights judges after "British law failed to protect her from slavery" [Mail Online]
Carl Gardner on the Abu Qatada judgment [Charon QC]
Letters: Judges' brave stand against torture [The Independent]
SRA chairman: too many solicitors are "simply not good enough" [Legal Futures]
The presidential race: a heavily weighted coin flip [The Economist]
Democrats, Republicans lawyer-up for US election [AFP]
Ignorance is no defence on Twitter and Facebook, warn legal experts [The Telegraph]
Pro bono: do we need to rethink the formula post legal aid? [The Guardian]
Solicitor is now doing God’s work [Worcester News]
Washington Post hops on the ‘do law students know how stupid they are’ bandwagon [Above the Law]
Government considers laws to stop discrimination against soldiers [Solicitors Journal]
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