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Morning round-up: Friday 18 October
Lawyers, beware lawyers [The Economist] Legal claims “could paralyse” armed forces [BBC News] President of...
Stephenson Harwood’s ‘red hot litigator’ makes First Capital Connect pay for overcharging him for his commute
Rail operator First Capital Connect (FCC) is rueing Andrew Myers’ 2012 move from SNR Denton’s...
Dream, identify your passion…and then apply: how to bag a TC or pupillage as a non-law student
Earlier this year Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks urged students to make time to “dream” before...
Exclusive interview: Founder of Facebook sensation ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ reveals all (apart from his identity)
If the Midlands-based LLB student behind ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ was to mobilise the...
Morning round-up: Thursday 3 October
The Daniel Cleaver Cleave-Off [Your Barrister Boyfriend] UK’s most senior judge Lord Neuberger ducks question...
‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’
After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...
The legal profession’s first tweets
It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...
Morning round-up: Friday 20 September
Sorry the hardest word as Bar Council apologises for getting its sums wrong [Legal Business]...
Law student alienates coursemates with bizarre mass email berating them for eating in lectures — coursemates leak email…
A Canadian law student has got off to a bad start to the academic year...
Does the way that lawyers are encouraged to think and work make them vulnerable to depression?
A high stress job combined with a temperamental inclination to analyse and pick apart can...
End of the day round-up
Leveson has been “disastrous” says Guardian legal chief [Press Gazette] Linkedin challenges US government over...
Event: If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
On the evening of Thursday 10th October six authors of posts in Legal Cheek‘s ‘If...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...
The perils of representing yourself in court as a barrister
Salford-based barrister Andrew Rosmarine has given a demonstration of how representing yourself in court can...
‘Many, particularly in their early careers, seek to disguise themselves as lawyers’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘F*ck you!’ — ‘that’s 300 days!’: Judge keeps upping insolent defendant’s contempt of court sentence as insults spew forth
A furious US judge increased a defendant’s contempt of court sentence seven times as she...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 August
Are Britain’s barristers living on borrowed time? [The Telegraph] Trainee barrister who obtained council flat...
The male barrister hottie list ‘subverted expectations’ — the female one ‘reinforces the most reactionary of ideas’
YourBarristerBoyfriend’s original list is well-written, hilarious and has pictures of good-looking shirtless barristers. Naturally, I...
‘I spent my early years at the Bar worrying that my peers were smarter than me’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, Nigel Poole QC recalls...
The worst attempt at a fraudulent personal injury claim ever?
Viral video website site Break.com released footage over the weekend of what may well be...
‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was for the firm’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, former Bond Pearce solicitor...