The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Nick Clegg on the drunken night he set fire to rare cacti collection of a judge in Munich [Mail Online]
Sorry tech apostles, law firms do get Twitter (that’s the whole problem) [Legal Business]
Lawyer goes to work [Twitter]
It is 2014. Married women should now be able to go to work without it being front page news. pic.twitter.com/WQJjn8Ei0e
— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) May 15, 2014
Rosamund Urwin: Cheap jibes and the real cost of cutting legal aid [Evening Standard]
Another big law firm opens an office in Manchester [Manchester Evening News]
Immigration case lawyer was not properly qualified [Derby Telegraph]
Bristol law student accused of false rape claims tells jury how her relationship turned to violence [Bristol Post]
A&O mulls 20 per cent female partnership target in diversity push [The Lawyer]
Here comes the judge: the maverick aiming to tame Britain’s raucous press [The Guardian]
Twitter’s top lawyer fights for free speech [Bloomberg]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“On the basis of that post, (not at all narcissistic in itself) anyone applying to Simon Myerson’s Chambers would be quite justified in pressing ‘withdraw’!” [Legal Cheek Comments]