Category: News
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The continuing mystery of who owns a monkey-selfie
Political blog Guido Fawkes attacks Oxford Uni Labour club chair for doing vac schemes at top City law firms
Law student's social media footprint used by popular right-wing blog to make 'champagne socialism' accusations that don't quite hit the mark
#ThrowbackThursday: Back to the Future II basically predicted the legal aid cuts
Spookily, 1989 cult classic Back to the Future II — which is set in 2015 — forecast not only hipster fashion, but the end of lawyers…
Morning round-up: Thursday 7 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Moving moment
Too many lawyers? Blame the bankers
The rocketing number of law graduates -- and the topsy-like growth of the legal profession over the last generation -- has got The Times worried. But the numbers aren’t as simple as they seem
Revealed: the really badly written and fake-sounding LPC scam emails that have spurred SRA warning
Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers
Morning round-up: Wednesday 6 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Has Breaking Bad lawyer Saul Goodman moved to Edinburgh?
Addressing a judge: just don’t call them ‘Your Majesty’
Beware, wannabe lawyers, of emulating defendant at Grimsby Crown Court in using the royal address to greet a judge
The unlucky law firm which went from sharing name with Holocaust denier to sharing name with terrorist group
David M Irving Solicitors may be rueing its 2007 ‘Isis Legal’ rebrand
Morning round-up: Tuesday 5 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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On today's centenary of the start of the first world war, this photo shows members of the Inns of Court Regiment being drilled in Hertfordshire during the conflict
Edinburgh Uni law graduate cracks America with hilarious ad for his new firm
Scottish solicitor Peter Reid, who moved to Texas in 2010, succeeds where many Brits have failed as he wows US with YouTube masterpiece
Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year
First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially
Morning round-up: Monday 4 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Happy Yorkshire Day!
A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day
Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today
Morning round-up: Friday 1 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Can a tattoo be legally binding?
An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day
Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle