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Music law: A barrier to creativity?

Swansea University law and media student Alice Wills explains why copyright law appears to be stifling artists’ creativity

Oct 16 2020 10:21am
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Junior barrister hits back at Boris Johnson’s ‘hamstrung’ justice comment in viral Twitter thread

PM waded into government’s ‘lefty lawyers’ saga yesterday

Oct 7 2020 10:56am
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Law Society: Lawyers could face physical attacks following Home Secretary speech

Priti Patel lashed out at ‘lefty lawyers’ and ‘do-gooders’ during conference address

Oct 6 2020 10:46am
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Tequila and torts! Law student Kim Kardashian downs shots in late night study sesh with lawyer mentors

‘Cocktails and contracts’ and ‘crunk and crim’ could be on the cards

Oct 2 2020 11:01am
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Solicitor agrees to leave profession after sending hundreds of offensive messages to his own defence lawyers

Mainly on Twitter

Oct 1 2020 9:14am
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#MyRoutetotheBar: Tweeting barristers share their unconventional career paths

Features advice from a former window cleaner, lifeguard and nightclub DJ

Sep 30 2020 9:10am
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Mixed-race junior barrister makes formal complaint after being mistaken for defendant three times in one day

‘I don’t expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work’, writes Alexandra Wilson

Sep 24 2020 11:33am
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Kim Kardashian opts to study criminal law over sleep

Queen bee of reality TV updates followers on legal exploits

Sep 23 2020 9:09am
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The top 10 Instagram memes that got us through lockdown

Legal Cheek hits 50,000 Insta-followers and counting…

Sep 11 2020 9:12am
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Home Office deletes ‘activist’ tweet amid complaints about ‘loudmouthed lawyers’ on social media

Post had been condemned by the department’s top civil servant

Aug 28 2020 12:04pm
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Legal Twitterati outrage over Home Office’s ‘activist lawyer’ tweet

The Secret Barrister changed their handle to ‘The Secret Activist Lawyer (AKA Barrister)’ in response

Aug 27 2020 10:38am
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TikToking law firm partner hits back at fellow lawyer’s claim she doesn’t ‘work very hard’

‘I’m annualising 2,800 hours this year’

Aug 13 2020 9:14am
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Essex Court Chambers barrister calls for Wiley to be stripped of MBE following anti-Semitic rant

Honour should be revoked ‘at earliest opportunity’, says Jeremy Brier, as grime artist is banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Jul 31 2020 12:26pm
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Groans all round as law firm describes receptionist as ‘beautiful’ in Facebook post

‘This was a comment made about a woman by another woman’, says Alexander Grace Law

Jul 10 2020 11:21am
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Holy water, Jimmy Choos and a fried egg: Lawyers share the weird and wonderful things they’ve been offered by clients

You couldn’t make it up

Jun 30 2020 11:44am
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Oxford Uni grad launches ‘TikTok Law School’

Toby Willcocks’ video series designed to help aspiring lawyers

Jun 26 2020 9:05am
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Careers

A snapshot of trainee life at an international law firm

Baker McKenzie beyond the graduate recruitment brochure

Jun 24 2020 1:13pm
Senior CPS lawyer referred to regulator over far-right Facebook posts

Defence lawyers complain after spotting Britain First petition on government solicitor’s feed

Jun 19 2020 11:23am

Re-hearing ordered in child custody case after US judge accepted Facebook friend request from the mother

She liked 18 of the judge’s Facebook posts

Jun 18 2020 10:54am
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Pregnant law firm partner calls out top QC for ‘every day sexism’

DWF’s Naomi Pryde says unnamed silk contacted a male junior lawyer about her case, assuming she’d be ‘indisposed’

Jun 17 2020 4:47pm
New Instagram account allows City lawyers to anonymously submit their ‘juicy secrets’

‘Magic Circle Confessions’ launched earlier this month

Jun 16 2020 12:00pm
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