The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
High court to go on recruitment drive for “non-traditional” judges [The Guardian]
Law firms fear poaching and desertion as market recovers [Financial Times]
Facebook is being sued by 25,000 users for alleged violations of European privacy laws in a class action suit due in a Vienna court [BBC News]
Fifteen barrister-led businesses are set to go into competition with solicitor firms as bar regulator licenses new “entities” [Law Society Gazette]
One of Britain’s biggest lawsuit funders is sold off [The Telegraph]
Presumably they were sick of people coming in asking for legal advice [Twitter]
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Kanye West settles paparazzo lawsuit with a handshake and apology [BBC Newsbeat]
“See how he likes it”: Ukip candidate and barrister calls for Box Hill cycle competitions to be moved to Boris Johnson’s constituency [Evening Standard]
The Rivlin Report — the bar talking to itself? [Halsbury’s Law Exchange]
Why every aspiring lawyer should study international law [The Guardian]
Judge pulls out can of WD40 on deafeningly loud district attorney’s cart [syracuse.com]
Law GIF [Facebook]
Commercial legal assistant at respected Thames Valley based firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“So significant was Lord Harley’s impact upon legal journalism that his absence in an article is as striking as his presence.” [Legal Cheek Comments]