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Morning round-up: Friday 1 November
“We have issued warrants for their arrest. But they have evaded the short arm of...
Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession...
Cease and desist letter sent to prevent ‘beardism’ that violates ‘Sexually Dynamic Lifestyle’ moustache trademark goes viral
A spoof cease and desist letter sent by the American Mustache Institute (AMI) to a...
Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC entry threshold ‘has to be higher’
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too...
9 Instagram photos that law firms wouldn’t use in their graduate recruitment brochures
Instagram — and the growing phenomenon of the law firm hashtag — is threatening to...
Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been...
Cash-strapped BPTC students turn to practitioners texts for fitness needs
A group of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students has shown how wannabe lawyers can...
Chris Grayling’s lone solicitor supporter is disqualified as a company director after failing to pay huge tax bill
A solicitor who broke ranks with his fellow professionals to back the government’s legal aid...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. How can you tell what type of lawyer you’re destined to be? 2. 14...
End of the day round-up
Woman who lives with horse to sue council [The Scotsman] Juror facing contempt charge for...
‘If I had known what strange paths life can take you down, I would have been far less depressed at my prospects’
Does it really matter if you don’t know what to do with your life? Perhaps...
‘Don’t giggle’ and Don’t ‘show cleavage’: Clifford Chance female presentation tips email causes outrage
A memo providing gender-specific advice on public speaking has caused anger among female Clifford Chance...
Pupillage-less Bar grad who used ‘barrister’ title to commit massive fraud is struck off
A Bar graduate who failed to secure pupillage has been stripped of the right to...
Morning round-up: Friday 25 October
Ambitious defence of the week: £40,000 worth of cannabis grown in Littledean home “was for...
End of the day round-up
Did the BBC breach copyright by “stealing chunks” of Alex Ferguson’s book? [The IPKat] BBC...
Procrastination: a jaded solicitors’ guide
Once the sheer relief of having a job in a shrinking market has worn off,...
The 19 stages of the BPTC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...
Morning round-up: Thursday 24 October
Barristers wrestle defendant to ground after he escapes from dock at Teeside Crown Court [The...
End of the day round-up
Televising the courts: the time has come [The Guardian] 5 ways to call in sick...
How to broadcast your status as a free legal work champion to the nation’s road users
This personalised number plate — photographed last week by Alex Altman — doesn’t, somehow, seem...
Law student YouTube sensations mock Snapchat addiction of fellow legal hopefuls
The law students behind the viral parody of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines have made a...