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Legal executive chief leads lawyers in ice bucket challenge
Jury still out on whether Justice Secretary Grayling as well as Law Society and Bar...
A post-drinking binge kebab could cut domestic violence and accidents, argues solicitor
Social services take note -- kebabs should be promoted to the front line in the battle against domestic violence. At least, that’s the view of a licensing lawyer in Scotland
Ambulance chasers become the ambulance
A Merseyside claims management company faces potential legal action after promoting its services via an ... ambulance
Morning round-up: Thursday 28 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Fenced off
Legal aid slasher Grayling nominated for the ice bucket challenge
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan nominates the bête noir of much of the legal profession to take a drenching -- while other luminaries are also in the spotlight
Top junior lawyer calls on Law Society to fight for return of trainee minimum salaries
As a new team arrives at beleaguered Chancery Lane, Legal Cheek sets out the issues the solicitors’ profession leadership should be addressing for law students and young lawyers
Morning round-up: Wednesday 27 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
What a bank holiday means to pupil barristers
Will vlawging catch on?
Some students are making decent money out of vlogging, so why are only a handful of wannabe lawyers dabbling in the medium?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 26 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
2 Hare Court barrister Rob 'Judge' Rinder does the Ice Bucket Challenge -- following a nomination from fellow daytime TV star Jeremy Kyle
This one goes out to the paralegals in the regions
A musical interlude
6 things you can buy with 18 grand that are much more fun than law school
With the cost of the LPC and BPTC approaching the eye-watering respective sums of £15,000 and £18,000, it is not unreasonable to consider how else that money could be spent
Morning round-up: Friday 22 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Drying some washing outside the Pakistan Supreme Court
#ThrowbackThursday: ‘Fat boy’ and ‘Mr Hairpiece’ — classic 90s lawyer spat resurfaces
20 years on and classic lawyer bust-up has resurfaced on viral video site Break.com
The Ice Bucket Challenge reaches the legal profession at last
Just as the weather turns, solicitors embrace viral summer craze
Morning round-up: Thursday 21 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic of the day
Family law campaigner erects tent on the roof of Chris Grayling's home
Law firm faces Twitter accusation of plagiarising newspaper articles
Legal commentator doyen Joshua Rozenberg leads the charge against a high street practice that appears to have a penchant for lifting other writers’ words