The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
How legal aid reforms are clogging up the courts [The Spectator]
Firm launches “next-day training contracts” [Lawyer2B]
The legal turbulence hindering drones in the UK [Wired]
Threadbare prospects for criminal silks [Law Society Gazette]
Gray’s Inn in leaked web re-design mystery [Twitter]
RT @HonSocGraysInn How was our new home page leaked?! http://t.co/qlY53lMcpy pic.twitter.com/zEh8yUuz4Z
— Legal Cheek (@legalcheek) February 20, 2014
WhatsApp? Weil secures lead role on Facebook’s $16bn acquisition led by 2012 Dewey hire [Legal Business]
To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee settles legal action against Alabama museum which was using her name on souvenirs [BBC News]
Sentencing reform: kinder, gentler [The Economist]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“I await being told I’m wrong by a 24 year old male commenter with interest” [Legal Cheek Comments]
