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Morning round-up: Tuesday 20 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
King’s College ditches plan to rebrand as ‘King’s London’
Was it wannabe solicitor's class action threat wot won it?
Legal pic of the day
The craziest small claim ever?
City law firm finally realises that trainees don’t know what ‘commercial awareness’ is
Hogan Lovells in bid to explain mythical concept to new recruits
Full 21 minute video: Clifford Chance trainee’s Charlie Hebdo rant has re-appeared on YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle rookie issues apology as his controversial musings on Paris attacks re-emerge online
Morning round-up: Monday 19 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Willy Wonka and the magic circle firm
You might want to avoid White & Case’s canteen
London office of US firm given 1/5 hygiene rating by Food Standards Agency
Heartthrob Cumberbatch in shock revelation: he wanted to be a barrister
Actor parents of Sherlock star encouraged him to go into law, but the closest he came was to preside over Judge Rinder's wedding
Research: 77% of rookie tenants at top 30 chambers went to Oxbridge
Top end of the junior bar is dominated by Oxford and Cambridge -- to a far greater extent than leading law firms
Morning round-up: Friday 16 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Have you seen missing Durham law student Euan Coulthard?
Law second year last seen leaving Durham nightclub Loveshack
Legal pic of the day
Great puns, but why the penguins?
Ex-Brunel law student scammed tens of thousands from migrants to fund gambling debts
Abdul Farooq admits being in cahoots with dodgy Border Agency official to hoodwink the vulnerable
A QC has made a lawyer version of Twitter with ‘moots’ rather than tweets
A new frontier for social media?
Morning round up: Thursday 15 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Hammer time
Clifford Chance trainee pulls Charlie Hebdo rant from YouTube
Exclusive: Magic circle firm distances itself from rookie's online diatribe -- not difficult to imagine the reaction of senior partners
New silks: Women and ethnic minorities have best strike rate, but men dominate
Today’s silk round shows women and ethnic minorities have a much better success rate than their male counterparts -- but they still lag way behind in applications
Legal profession has best-ever showing in gay-friendly employer rankings
Three law firms make top 10 of Stonewall list, seven more in top 100 -- and one granted "star performer" status. Plus the CPS is there too
Is this the most random Twitter hacking ever to have befallen a law firm?
Hill Dickinson’s Twitter account "hacked" by The Undateables fan