Category: News
Legal pic of the day
Perhaps this is a sobriety test for advocates and clients alike at Northampton Mags
Solicitors’ leader smarms up to new Attorney General and Solicitor General despite no other lawyer having heard of them
While the rest of the legal profession scratches its head in bafflement at the elevation of Jeremy Wright and Robert Buckland, the Law Society President tweets fawning congratulations
God orders student to go to law school — but she wants us to foot the bill
A young woman in South Carolina launches a novel crowd-funding bid to cover degree fees after the Almighty provides career planning advice
Let’s break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels
Even a respected broadsheet falls into the trap of thinking British judges bang away like their Yankee counterparts
Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Law firm business development latest:
Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character
Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners
Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices
Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union
A reading from the Book of Mitchell
Wigapedia draws upon Biblical inspiration to follow the twists and turns of the Jackson reforms
Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
What your parents say when you tell them you want to quit law to become an artist
Law students are pompous, anal bores with ‘booming voices’ — claims BuzzFeed as it evaluates undergraduate personalities
Journalists at London office of social news website BuzzFeed think people who study law are much less cool than them
Video: lawyer attacks judge with a fly swatter before being punched by fellow advocate
CCTV footage of extraordinary Kazakhstan courtroom bust-up becomes viral hit
Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’
"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.
Morning round-up: Monday 21 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Members of Leeds' Zenith Chambers cool off with a 'Vodka Luge'
Law lecturer lip sync battles are a thing
Lip sync battles -- as popularised by British comic Stephen Merchant, whose classic lip sync performance on the Jimmy Fallon show has become a YouTube classic -- have finally reached the law
Transcript emerges of huge bust-up between judge and ‘breathtakingly arrogant’ barrister that has shocked the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has torn into a criminal barrister and referred him to the Bar Standards Board for getting into a slanging match with a Crown Court judge — but what did the pair actually say to each other?
Morning round-up: Friday 18 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Guardian illustrates law story with photo of … an erotica book?!
Morning round-up: Thursday 17 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.