The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Judge trolled female barrister on anonymous social media account [The Telegraph] (£)
Anthropic’s top lawyer says AI will kill the legal profession’s dreaded billable hour [Business Insider]
Postmasters’ lawyer quits over David Lammy’s ‘tyrannical’ jury reforms [The Times] (£)
International law is in retreat. We cannot let it die [Financial Times] (£)
I found out my son’s killer was back in court on another charge through the news [BBC News]
Style secrets of a French criminal defence lawyer [Financial Times] (£)
New hearing for Leeds GP who was shouted at by a tribunal judge [BBC News]
Meet the Leicester lawyer who turned redundancy into a pilates empire just for women [Leicestershire Live]
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