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Morning round-up: Thursday 4 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Name games
Law student boasts about making £300 selling stolen university library books
Is this tale of a youthful tea-leaf an illustration of modern commercial awareness -- or just outright criminality?
Litigant-in-person surgeon wows Court of Appeal with ‘high quality’ advocacy
Doctor's performance "would have done credit to an experienced member of the bar"
Morning round-up: Wednesday 3 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Doge considers possible copyright action against crêperie
Slaughter and May is increasing its Christmas bonuses — but not by as much as Skadden
Jealous? Just remember that Slaughter and May lawyers are themselves seething with resentment at Skadden lawyers
Research: Majority of law grads now become paralegals before doing a training contract
New pre-trainee tier is becoming the norm
Morning round-up: Tuesday 2 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Magic 8-Ball -- the lawyer edition
We’re selling a limited number of special edition lawyer Christmas cards
Entertain family and friends with law-themed seasonal greeting
Garden Court barrister walks into a lamppost — Twitter goes wild
Social media is watching
London law student creates ‘Writ of Summons’ to ask coursemate to law society ball
Courtship, wannabe lawyer-style
Morning round-up: Monday 1 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Barefoot lawyer
Review: ‘The Dog’ — a lawyer howls for freedom in Dubai
A former London barrister has written a witty and entertaining tale of ex-pat life in the psychologically confusing emirate
Law is one of most ethnically diverse university subjects, government stats show
Some 32% of LLB students are non-white, yet ethnic minorities remain poorly represented at many top law firms
Morning round-up: Friday 28 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Kings of comedy
Joshua Rozenberg photobombs Andrew Mitchell at the RCJ following ‘Plebgate’ trial
Days after bagging yet another honorary doctorate, BBC Law in Action presenter is in the news again
The Apprentice review: ex-Slaughter and May lawyer Felipe wins big
Last night's episode of BBC reality show was a celebration of corporate lawyers big picture vision