Category: News
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Now this is how you strike, lawyers
Should English law school chiefs follow US example of being ‘roasted’?
Heads of ULaw and BPP could benefit from American tradition
Royal Holloway to compete with UCL, LSE, Queen Mary and King’s as it launches latest University of London LLB
Rising student demand leads to creation of yet another law school
Solicitor coughs up tens of thousands in internet dating blackmail honey trap
“No Strings Adult Fun” turns out to have lots of strings attached for lawyer
Morning round-up: Wednesday 5 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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Tied up with ribbons
Everyday sexism: court mode of address guide implies all male judiciary
A little too close to the truth for comfort
Expert: Law Society claim that rising pro bono is filling the legal aid gap is ‘misleading’
Volunteering by lawyers to help individuals hit by cuts may actually be falling
Diversity quotas: would they be legal, would they make a difference?
Breaking the dominance of the MAWM (middle-aged white man) is even harder than some campaigning groups realise, says Judge John Hack
Morning round-up: Tuesday 4 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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Bar Council greets National Pro Bono Week with U2 quip
The end of the training contract? Law school and firm combine to launch new ‘articled apprenticeship’ route
It means students working through their degree, but they could qualify as solicitors debt free
The Citizenship Foundation is developing a very cool legal education app — and it needs law student and lawyer writers
Help charity create legal plotlines to engage young people with the law
Inns scholarship money wasted on ‘expensive, unproductive’ BPTC, says former Lord Chief Justice
Entry to the bar could be on the verge of a historic overhaul
Kanye WestLaw Twitter parody charts law student experience from perspective of gaffe-prone rapper
What social media has been waiting for
Morning round-up: Monday 3 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
For a judge that’s ‘right up to 11’: livid Sir James Munby launches most scathing attack on Grayling yet
Shocking case — which saw vulnerable couple and their child denied legal aid — makes the blood of nation’s top family judge boil
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Halloween at the Inns of Court, featuring Darth Vader
Halloween exclusive: Son of Dracula speaks to Legal Cheek — he’s a lawyer
Bela Lugosi Jr is a longstanding top flight Hollywood attorney who was instrumental in campaign for groundbreaking image rights legislation in California
Bar regulators launch yet another education and training review
Latest reform package from Bar Standards Board seems long on jargon and short on specifics
Morning round-up: Friday 31 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts