Category: News
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Breaking Bad law firm is now a nightclub.
8 reasons that lawyers are like condoms
"It's the fruity ones which are the most fun? No, wait..."
Workload and client expectations are by far the biggest causes of stress for lawyers
60% of stressed-out solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations.
Morning round-up: Monday 23 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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The UK Supreme Court has today been branded by the Daily Mail as “London’s most unlikely tourist attraction” after it received a “certificate of excellence” following rave reviews.
You can be a lawyer and simultaneously live your childhood Indiana Jones dream
Combining law firm marketing with action hero role-play.
11 eyebrow-raisingly honest tweets from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain’s trainee-controlled Twitter account
15 hour days and "being sent to buy lingerie on the weekend": trainee solicitors reveal what life at big law firm is really like.
Morning round-up: Friday 20 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Every law student should have their own owl.
Lawyer Vs judge bust-ups are so much more civilised on this side of the pond
Barrister's live-tweeting of his appeal against contempt of court fine is about as rebellious as English lawyers get.
Student pulls out of GDL for a bid at the catwalk
Times are tough for law students – which is possibly why one has said sod it, I’ll splurge my student loan on cosmetic surgery
Morning round-up: Thursday 19 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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Clearly, not everyone has had enough of the irritating global meme sensation 'Doge'.
Report highlights hard times at the bar over conditions and pay
Longer hours, an increasing chance of being bullied and falling incomes -- that is the grim picture of modern life at the bar, as painted by the profession’s own leadership.
Law Society rife with bullying and discrimination, but at least it’s got ‘values’
Solicitors’ representation body in desperate bid to steady ship as search to replace chief executive drowns in jargon and rivalries
Morning round-up: Wednesday 18 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts. Social media mass surveillance is...
QC bids to be the bar’s Barbara Cartland
Housing law specialist creates bodice-ripping alter ego with steamy tales of the Inns of Court
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They see him here; they see him there ...
Chambers bowls dress-code googly at aspiring pupils
A prospective barrister is traumatised by the requirement to arrive at a formal interview in “informal” clobber
In-house lawyers have been re-branded ‘legal ninjas’
Silicon Valley software company Palantir doesn't have in-house lawyers, it has "legal ninjas" -- and it wants to find one in London, where the term will surely never catch on.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 17 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.