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Morning round-up: Monday 17 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
How many divorce paper wedding dresses could you make from a £1 million divorce?
Trainee solicitor who tried to pull Chris Huhne-style scam to protect father loses appeal
Law career hopes of solicitor-to-be dashed
Number of privately educated lawyers at Linklaters suddenly halves as it becomes government ‘social mobility champion’
Magic circle firm gets into a tangle with statistics
Why are barristers such awful dressers?
On reflection, the real story of the Bar Council conference was the smart casual on display
Morning round-up: Friday 14 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The Apprentice review: reinforcing lawyer stereotypes
Lord Sugar doesn't seem keen on the "typical safe lawyer" of popular legend
Legal pic of the day
Chasing the work
City firms sign up to 25-hours-a-year pro bono deal
Mix of US and English practices lead way -- but is there more to be done and what does pro bono mean for legal aid?
Daily Mail issues correction over Chris Grayling’s article which claimed that not all ECHR judges are legally qualified
Non-lawyer justice secretary stumbles again
Official stats: Great Recession has devastated applications to law schools
Over the last five years the number of students aiming for either the LPC or GDL has tumbled
Morning round-up: Thursday 13 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Not so looky-likey
14 things that mean something completely different if you’re a law student
The world seen through the eyes of the wannabe lawyer
Morning round-up: Wednesday 12 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
That's next year's marketing budget gone in one blast
Crown Court solicitor-advocate tells barristers to stop being so smug
The leader of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association hits out at the patronising bar -- as well as the government for turning Magna Carta celebrations into a “legal business fair”
Research: most students haven’t had useful careers advice
Parents are out-of-touch and career advisors still only sporadically consulted
Court hears how practising barrister claimed Nazis wanted to nuke Queen at 2012 Olympics
There's a surreal case going on at Southwark Crown Court this week
Morning round-up: Tuesday 11 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Pair of judges included in The Independent’s ‘rainbow list’ of top LGBT people
Lord Justice Terence Etherton and Lord Justice of Appeal Adrian Fulford rub shoulders with Alan Carr and Sue Perkins in newspaper's rather random list