The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Clifford Chance’s profits jump by nearly a quarter as firm prepares to drastically cut training contract numbers [Legal Cheek]
Truss orders review to ban abusers tormenting victims in family courts [The Guardian]
Is Article 50 notification in March now more likely than unlikely? [Financial Times]
Assange tells Fox: Prez Obama “acting like a lawyer” [The Register]
WikiLeaks to sue CNN for defamation [Zero Hedge]
More than 1,100 law school professors call on Congress to reject Donald Trump’s pick for Attorney General [The Independent]
Donald Trump nominates SullCrom lawyer to head Securities and Exchange Commission [New York Times]
Forcing newspapers to pay their opponents legal costs even if they win are “extremely fair”, insists Max Mosley, who threatens to fund state-backed press regulator for a “very long time” [Mail Online]
Katy Perry and Lady Gaga “involved” in legal battle between Kesha and Dr Luke [The Mirror]
There’s nothing to fear from repealing the Human Rights Act [Spiked]
Apply to attend — Global Commercial Law in 2017: What’s next for the world’s legal capital? [Legal Cheek Hub]
“They still ‘pay’ us, but it’s week by week now, literally like when I did my vac scheme there in 2014.” [Legal Cheek Comments]