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Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The College Of Law – Bloomsbury Branch Joins Inner Temple As...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Part of Whitehall shut due to naked man on statue [BBC News – photo via @johnestevens]...
‘As Just A Normal Bloke I Couldn’t Imagine Myself Being Able To Make It Into This Exclusive Club’
Ed note: This is the fifth in a series of posts where leading members of...
‘Solicitor Saturday’: Law Firm Releases Surreal Personal Injury-Themed Sky Sports Spoof
For those unfamiliar with the show, Sky Sports’ ‘Soccer Saturday’ sees washed-up ex-footballers offer excitable...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 23 November
German lawyer claims 38DD girlfriend tried to smother him to death with her breasts [Mail...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Hit by cottaging revelations on Monday, becomes a university on Thursday: What a week for...
EXCLUSIVE: College Of Law To Change Its Name To The ‘University Of Law’ – And Become A Proper University
The College of Law is to re-brand as the University of Law after being granted...
Standards Slipping At The Bar…
Picture courtesy of must-follow legal tweeter Jeremy Hopkins.
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 22 November
Judges’ lunchtime drinking at the Old Bailey [The Guardian] Lady Wheatcroft: “In particular the thing...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Boris: “If you want to take him to cleaners, take him to cleaners in London”...
Will It Soon Cost Nothing To Become a Lawyer?
Thanks to the trebling of undergraduate fees, the cost of legal education has reached new...
Judge Gives Verbose Lawyer a Lesson In Editing
A US judge’s stinging criticism of a lawyer’s ability to write concisely has been doing...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 21 November
Society of Black Lawyers to hold police talks ahead of complaint over Tottenham ‘Yid’ chants...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Full CPS charging statement for Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brooks and Clive Goodman [CPS Blog] Pyramid...
Why Law Students’ Cluelessness About The Legal Market Could Consign Them To Paralegal Purgatory
The other day I had a coffee with the guy who many of the top...
Lawyer’s Porn Star Past Returns To Haunt Him
A US lawyer has admitted that he starred in porn films in the 1970s then...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 20 November
Clarke’s secret courts belong in a repressive regime and undemocratic society warn lawyers [Mail Online]...
End Of The Day Round-Up
‘You’ve missed your vocation as a lawyer’: Factory cleaner praised by coroner for taking on...
EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The College Of Law – Bloomsbury Branch Joins Inner Temple As Cruising Hotspot
On World Toilet Day – which we urge lawyers to engage generously with – we...
Lawyer Beats Astronaut In Survey Of Childhood Dream Jobs
A LinkedIn survey has found that law is the sixth most common dream job, making...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 19 November
Judicial review ‘industry’ to be cut as right to challenge public bodies’ decisions curtailed, says...