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Morning round-up: Thursday 2 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Dust off the fancy dress and say a prayer for, er, Chris Grayling
Are Amal and George just as shameless as Kim and Kanye? Probably
Your Barrister Boyfriend co-creator Natalia Naish is faintly repulsed at the Amal Alammudin-George Clooney wedding
Small law firm somehow persuades very successful rapper to do voiceover on its advert
Rapper and No Limit Records boss Master P lends a hand to promote small US law firm with “UGHH” catchphrase
It looks like the drunken Kent Uni fresher who got stuck up a tree may have been a law student
Did booze-fuelled tree farce begin after unsuccessful attempt by student to use LLB credentials to gain access to Freshers Ball?
Morning round-up: Wednesday 1 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
"Laws are like sausages"
Keira Knightley clearly doesn’t realise how hard it is to get a training contract or pupillage
Actress says she'd advise her daughter to be a lawyer to avoid the "heartbreaking rejection" of life as an actor. Hmmm...
Wannabe barrister takes break from BPTC to reflect on his job as an Ann Summers sex toy salesman
Has flamboyant TV barrister ‘Judge Rinder’ widened frame of reference for bar hopefuls seeking to stand out from the crowd?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 30 September
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Happy National Coffee Day!
Instagram’s legal team seems to have been trolled
Lawyers at social network reported to have sent cease and desist letter to slutsofinstagram.com — and then discovered the site wasn’t what they thought it was
Research: lawyers viewed as warmly as sex workers
A mind boggling Venn diagram shows that the legal profession and the oldest profession are despised equally
Doughty Street barrister marries celeb to create global ‘Alamooney’ brand
Best of the legal profession reaction as Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney pool their powers
Morning round-up: Monday 29 September
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Lawyers' CVs are even more dishonest than bankers' CVs?!
This claim by a self-published author alleging that Frozen stole her life story is very ambitious indeed
Optimistic lawsuit of the week
Return of the Loadsamoney lawyers as magic circle partners enjoy extremely fine wines
Break out the red braces, start waving fistfuls of fifty pound notes and bray like something normally housed in a stables -- according to Freshfields, the good times are back
‘Why I’m handing out CVs underground’: jobless law grad who’s targeting Chancery Lane commuters speaks
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: UWE law graduate Bilal Rauf tells Legal Cheek about his maverick strategy to land a training contract
Morning round-up: Friday 26 September
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Napery niceties