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The 12 best legal social media users of 2021
Meet the influencers that kept us entertained and educated over the past 12 months
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Jo Maugham QC claims Allen & Overy blacklisted him and his chambers
Tax barrister says ‘ban’ came in ‘aftermath’ of fox killing tweet
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Barrister expelled from chambers over ‘stroppy teenager of colour’ tweet
Jon Holbrook, formerly of Cornerstone Barristers, says he resigned four days earlier
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Barrister condemned for ‘stroppy teenager of colour’ tweet
Jon Holbrook’s comment remains up despite his chambers twice requesting it be deleted
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Netflix’s Top Boy uses sold off crown court to film legal scenes — as criminal case backlog hits 457,518
Blackfriars Crown Court flogged for a reported £65 million in 2019
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Lawyers left stunned after ex-Supreme Sumption tells cancer sufferer her life is ‘less valuable’ on national TV
Former top judge insists comment was taken out of context
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Pupil barristers take to Twitter to mark first day on the job
Social media posts come as Gateway reopens today
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Lawyers hit out at US law firm Quinn Emanuel’s ‘dread’ advert
Full-page in FT
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Top QC under fire for suggesting pupil barristers should have ‘well polished shoes’ and a ‘proper haircut’
Former Bar Council chief Richard Atkins apologises for posting tweet quoting recently deceased judge
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Biden’s law graduate granddaughter pokes fun at Trump with fake case law tweet
‘The case of Trump v. Reality’
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Junior barrister imagines Boris Johnson and top Tory MPs as fictional QCs in hilarious Twitter thread
Filled with plenty of QC quips and lawyer in-jokes
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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
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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
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#MyRoutetotheBar: Tweeting barristers share their unconventional career paths
Features advice from a former window cleaner, lifeguard and nightclub DJ
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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
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‘#ChangeTheRecord’: Bar Council retort goes viral as government doubles down on ‘activist’ lawyer-bashing
Senior minister Priti Patel reignites row
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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
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Gruntasnorus Poo Face! Glasgow Uni law prof in Zoom name blunder
Blames 11-year-old daughter
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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
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Barristers dish out career wisdom to mark A-Level results day
Exams scrapped in wake of coronavirus mean sixth-formers receive grades based on predictions and schools’ past performance
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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
