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Survey Slams ‘Dry’ And ‘Staid’ UK Law Firm Websites
Most of the top 30 UK law firms have “mediocre” websites that are defined by...
Barrister Who Accused Lord McAlpine Of Being a Paedophile Issues Grovelling Apology – As Peer’s Legal Team Confirms It’s Investigating Him
Earlier this month we revealed that one of the bloggers who wrongly named Lord McAlpine...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 26 November
“The newspapers will print nothing but Leveson Leveson Leveson this week” [Adam Wagner via Twitter]...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The College Of Law – Bloomsbury Branch Joins Inner Temple As...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Part of Whitehall shut due to naked man on statue [BBC News – photo via @johnestevens]...
‘As Just A Normal Bloke I Couldn’t Imagine Myself Being Able To Make It Into This Exclusive Club’
Ed note: This is the fifth in a series of posts where leading members of...
‘Solicitor Saturday’: Law Firm Releases Surreal Personal Injury-Themed Sky Sports Spoof
For those unfamiliar with the show, Sky Sports’ ‘Soccer Saturday’ sees washed-up ex-footballers offer excitable...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 23 November
German lawyer claims 38DD girlfriend tried to smother him to death with her breasts [Mail...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Hit by cottaging revelations on Monday, becomes a university on Thursday: What a week for...
EXCLUSIVE: College Of Law To Change Its Name To The ‘University Of Law’ – And Become A Proper University
The College of Law is to re-brand as the University of Law after being granted...
Standards Slipping At The Bar…
Picture courtesy of must-follow legal tweeter Jeremy Hopkins.
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 22 November
Judges’ lunchtime drinking at the Old Bailey [The Guardian] Lady Wheatcroft: “In particular the thing...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Boris: “If you want to take him to cleaners, take him to cleaners in London”...
Will It Soon Cost Nothing To Become a Lawyer?
Thanks to the trebling of undergraduate fees, the cost of legal education has reached new...
Judge Gives Verbose Lawyer a Lesson In Editing
A US judge’s stinging criticism of a lawyer’s ability to write concisely has been doing...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 21 November
Society of Black Lawyers to hold police talks ahead of complaint over Tottenham ‘Yid’ chants...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Full CPS charging statement for Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brooks and Clive Goodman [CPS Blog] Pyramid...
Why Law Students’ Cluelessness About The Legal Market Could Consign Them To Paralegal Purgatory
The other day I had a coffee with the guy who many of the top...
Lawyer’s Porn Star Past Returns To Haunt Him
A US lawyer has admitted that he starred in porn films in the 1970s then...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 20 November
Clarke’s secret courts belong in a repressive regime and undemocratic society warn lawyers [Mail Online]...
End Of The Day Round-Up
‘You’ve missed your vocation as a lawyer’: Factory cleaner praised by coroner for taking on...