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Morning Round-Up: Monday 10 December

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Six fat cat lawyers get £½MILLION each a year legal aid [The Sun]

A much-used diversionary tactic: to distract public attention away from this government’s policy of destruction of legal aid [Nothing like The Sun]

Today is Human Rights Day [UK Human Rights Blog]

Judge suspended after ‘getting a witness pregnant’ – months after sending topless picture of himself to married colleague [Mail Online]

Google to replace the head of its mergers and acquisitions unit with one of its “top lawyers” [The Next Web]

Solicitors favour LinkedIn over Facebook and Twitter as social media use slowly grows [Legal Futures]

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