The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
EU ready to fight Polish media law amid row over values [BBC News]
End witch-hunt of our soldiers: Fury as “ambulance-chasing” lawyers try to prosecute UK’s Iraq heroes — and are handed taxpayers’ millions to do it [Mail Online]
Dominant New York corporate law firms increase market share [Financial Times]
British man faces five years in prison after calling a local delicacy “horse penis” in Kyrgyzstan [The Independent]
Saudi Arabia: Mass execution largest since 1980 [Human Rights Watch]
Adults to get the legal right to choose if they are a man or a woman as new law will end tortuous process to change gender [Mail Online]
Simon Danczuk threatens legal action against “malicious” allegations by ex-wife [The Independent]
David Cameron’s threat to leave EU is security risk, says Keir Starmer [The Observer]
Bill Cosby: Meet Monique Pressley — the woman tasked with winning the battle of public opinion [The Independent]
Texas marks New Year with law allowing one million people to openly carry handguns [The Telegraph]
Slaughter and May’s summer vac scheme deadline closes on Thursday [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The problem with understanding commercial awareness fully has a lot to do with the way that British society is structured. You see in Britain, money is dirty.” [Legal Cheek Comments]