The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
UK supreme court urged to appoint Welsh judge [The Guardian]
A new era of crowd funding for justice [New Statesman]
Ethiopian lawyer is directing Calais blockade [The Mirror]
Trader jailed for 14 years over Libor rate-rigging [BBC News]
Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson’s child sex charges trial pushed back to 2016 [Chronicle Live]
Law graduate who survived fatal car smash launches legal bid to sue driver for at least £100,000 in compensation [Wales Online]
Why lawyers are taking on the government [Left Foot Forward]
A former lawyer who left a steady 6-figure job explains what it’s like to take the leap [Business Insider]
EY: Accountancy firm follows Clifford Chance in going ‘CV Blind’ and says it will not longer consider degrees or A-level results when assessing employees [The Independent]
Is it better to work for a big brand or a plucky start-up? [The Telegraph]
King of the pupils [BabyBarista]
Residential property paralegal sought for highly regarded Surrey law firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“I get my business ethics from Dilbert.” [Legal Cheek Comments]