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Liverpool lawyers defy bar chiefs to launch criminal courts strike
Local barristers are refusing to take new instructions from beginning of July in fight against legal aid cuts
Morning round-up: Thursday 25 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Criminal law juniors take another knock as Supreme Court green-lights QASA
Controversial advocacy assessment regime loses final judicial review hurdle today
Top white-collar crime QC entangled in online intern swap embarrassment
Lawyers are flocking to recently launched site in a bid to bag little Hugo and Henrietta pre-gap yah work experience. But is this just hi-tech nepotism?
A dozen law-related tunes to beat the training contract application blues
The Judge trawls through his -- and his mates’ -- old vinyl collections in search of a soundtrack to ease the stress
Morning round-up: Wednesday 24 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Large arse spotted at global law firm, shock
Fears abounded that this “Playboy” image could have caused Clifford Chance’s diversity supremo to lose some sleep
Weil keeps pace with US rivals, offering jobs to all nine qualifying lawyers
Weil Gotshal & Manges announced today it will keep 100% of its spring and autumn 2015 NQs
Smooth-talking Gove charms lawyers over legal aid reforms and rule of law
Social media commentators almost fall in love with new Justice Secretary, primarily because he’s not Chris Grayling
Mini-pupil raises the bar with chocolatey chambers thank-you
Aspiring barrister delivers a chocolate and fruit-covered note in top culinary arse-licking gesture
Nabarro’s revenue rockets by 21%, but junior lawyer pay rises struggle at 3%
And trainees get a big fat zilch as London firm takes restrained view to remuneration at bottom of the pile
Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Amal Clooney’s chambers-mate reported to be working on fees of £1.50 an hour
Doughty Street Chambers and Bindmans Solicitors highlight demise of legal aid -- while actor’s wife jets between New York and London
Ex-City solicitor in crosshairs over alleged VE Day demonstration vandalism
From the Square Mile to anti-capitalist campaigner in just three years
Somebody at a top City law firm is using new anonymous app Yik Yak to reveal embarrassing work incidents
Yik Yak may have just reached the magic circle
Morning round-up: Monday 22 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Latham & Watkins is latest US firm in London to trumpet high newly-qualified retention rate
Californians will keep 95% of current UK trainees
Twitter dismay over new justice committee chair’s defence of legal aid cuts
Former barrister Bob Neill unveiled as parliamentary justice committee chairman
Now work-experience-charging firm exposed for alleged plagiarism
London niche practice forced to pull training contract blurb from website after striking similarities with wording of City and national firms were uncovered
Who is the mysterious cigar smoking London lawyer on Instagram?
Instagram user "Londonlawyer" is a social media mystery man, but is he actually a practising certificate-holder of any type?
The Judge Rules: Bar officialdom must tidy up the mess around ‘brand barrister’
Scraped through the BPTC but failed to bag a pupillage? Not to worry -- you can still call yourself a barrister