The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Top lawyers sign letter backing Sadiq Khan for London mayor [The Guardian]
Brazilian judge puts temporary ban on WhatsApp [Wall Street Journal]
Why lawyers make good early-stage startup hires [Harvard Business Review]
Slater and Gordon rescued by new lender agreement [Law Society Gazette]
Hillsborough barrister Michael Mansfield reveals how victims’ families were his rock after his daughter took her own life [The Mirror]
Revenge porn clinic and dementia law Skype sessions among winners of Attorney General pro bono awards [Legal Cheek]
Who owns Klingon? Lawsuit draws battle over invented languages into court [The Guardian]
“Human rights have become dirty words”: Lord Anthony Lester on the five things we should fight for [Huffington Post]
John RWD Jones obituary [The Guardian]
Last chance to apply for Exchange Chambers’ non-Gateway pupillage [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Brilliant. Plenty more female Barristers out there have suffered the same gross sexism. Great to get it out in the open.” [Legal Cheek Comments]