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Morning round-up: Thursday 19 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Clearly, not everyone has had enough of the irritating global meme sensation 'Doge'.
Report highlights hard times at the bar over conditions and pay
Longer hours, an increasing chance of being bullied and falling incomes -- that is the grim picture of modern life at the bar, as painted by the profession’s own leadership.
Law Society rife with bullying and discrimination, but at least it’s got ‘values’
Solicitors’ representation body in desperate bid to steady ship as search to replace chief executive drowns in jargon and rivalries
Morning round-up: Wednesday 18 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts. Social media mass surveillance is...
QC bids to be the bar’s Barbara Cartland
Housing law specialist creates bodice-ripping alter ego with steamy tales of the Inns of Court
Legal pic of the day
They see him here; they see him there ...
Chambers bowls dress-code googly at aspiring pupils
A prospective barrister is traumatised by the requirement to arrive at a formal interview in “informal” clobber
In-house lawyers have been re-branded ‘legal ninjas’
Silicon Valley software company Palantir doesn't have in-house lawyers, it has "legal ninjas" -- and it wants to find one in London, where the term will surely never catch on.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 17 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Nabarro lawyers take a no-nonsense approach to their trainees.
Clive Reader troll spices up student website with a dollop of sexism
TV’s 'Silk' QC is resurrected by anonymous poster, who captures the barrister’s charming misogyny.
Doughty Street barrister’s wedding to George Clooney could be off, claims US gossip rag
In latest instalment of wall-to-wall Amal Alamuddin coverage, “sources” tell National Enquirer that barrister’s forthcoming nuptials to Hollywood actor may not happen.
Lawyers celebrate anniversary of Magna Carta with a #Jelfie
What better way to mark the anniversary of the ancient charter of the liberties of England — which turned 799 yesterday — than with a "jelfie" (justice selfie)?
Morning round-up: Monday 16 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
You can almost see the pain behind their eyes.
Under-publicised scheme which pays almost a third of wannabe lawyers’ university fees quietly opens
City law firm's bursary for state school students who are the first generation in their family to go to uni pays £2,500 a year -- and application requires only a 750-word essay.
The sun shines in legal London and out come the tattoos
Spotted yesterday outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Morning round-up: Friday 13 June
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Book reveals fascinating truth.