Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
As a barrister, I can tell you exactly why Keir Starmer keeps beating Boris Johnson at PMQs [The Independent]
Keeping a large law firm on track as Covid-19 strikes [Financial Times]
There is no justice in looting [The Spectator]
Dominic Cummings and the Accountability of Special Advisers [UK Constitutional Law Association]
A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison [The New York Times]
From Homeless On Heroin To Law Student [Above The Law]
Firms shouldn’t ignore those who hate working from home [Law Society Gazette]
Life as a global business lawyer in Hong Kong 2020 — with Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, Mayer Brown and ULaw [Legal Cheek Events]
“The comparison between barristers and electricians should not be allowed to detract from the fundamental — and frankly undeniable — point. Which is that, by any reasonable objective metric, criminal barristers are grossly underpaid. If we want the bar to be ‘staffed’ by high quality advocates — and I suggest we do, for reasons which should be trite — then we simply have to pay them properly.” [Legal Cheek comments]
Legal Cheek is on TikTok! [TikTok]