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Lawyers slog it out in ping pong head-to-head

Lord of LinkedIn saga gets a new chapter

Sam Clague couldn’t get a TC, so he started a paralegal recruitment business — and law firms quickly became interested in his entrepreneurial spirit

Inns of Court clamp down on skateboarding barristers

Test will be introduced next year, along with minimum 2:1 entry requirement

There may be confusion about the right of solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker to call himself ‘Lord Harley of Counsel’. But the man is the undisputed Lord of LinkedIn

Speaking exclusively to Legal Cheek, Alan Blacker — who also goes by the title Lord Harley — hits back at Crown Court judge who questioned his appearance, title and qualifications

What a bank holiday means to pupil barristers

A musical interlude

Drying some washing outside the Pakistan Supreme Court

There are ways to make it to the top in law without a glittering academic record -- or indeed hardly any academic record at all

Mayo Wynne Baxter trainee Christina Spencer is mystified at newspaper's suggestion that she has quit her legal career

Edinburgh Festival show in which comedians go head-to-head in boozy moots has run extended amid stars’ desperation to have a go

£1.05 for a mug of hot water at Guildford Crown Court?!

Decisions could be swayed by trends in law firm graduate recruitment such as 'CV blind'

What price justice?

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge gets the lowdown from Norton Rose Fulbright on what it takes to emerge victorious from a training contract assessment centre

London IP law firm Carpmaels & Ransford maintains dignified silence after TV adventurer Bear Grylls lifts legal threat against start-up knife company 'Bear Blades'

English universities take first and second spot in (slightly random) list of visually splendid law schools, with five more institutions from our green and pleasant land featuring elsewhere in the top 50.

Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers