Category: News
Morning round up: Thursday 22 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Wig fail
University offers module in marijuana law
Legalisation of marijuana in Colorado set to spawn generation of weed lawyers
Bar Standards Board makes grovelling apology after being savaged by top judge
Professional body found to have withheld key evidence by Court of Appeal
The first City law firm trainee retention rate of 2015 has been released
Trowers & Hamlins' 82% figure bodes well, but it's early days yet
Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 January
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
London office of US firm launches unpaid vac scheme-lite for first year students
Weil Gotshal & Manges cites an “increasingly competitive environment” in move to target ever-younger students, who will be working for free
Legal pic of the day
Keys to the Inn
£1,750-a-head Magna Carta ‘summit’ hijacked by legal aid event that costs a tenner
With delegate fees at more than £1,700, don’t expect to see too many young lawyers brushing shoulders with the PM and BoJo at next month’s official Magna Carta celebrations. But there is an alternative…
Someone has done a poo on the floor of Westminster Magistrates Court
Solicitor’s tweet about excrement on floor of Westminster Magistrates Court leads to Vice interview
Inner Temple claims to have the best male talent
Debating society has rehashed Beach Boys track ‘California Girls’ to promote male hotties at the Inn
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
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