The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Liz Truss promises measures to diversify judiciary [The Guardian]
Top government lawyer Lord Keen lays into media over judge attacks [Total Politics]
How lawyers lent legitimacy to multi-million pound investment scams [Mirror]
Contract lawyers are ‘copy and paste monkeys’ [Law Gazette]
Adidas start legal challenge over new Barca home shirt which they claim contains copyright infringement [The Sun]
Nigel Shepherd: ‘Law fails poorer families going through relationship breakdown’ [The Guardian]
Brexit verdict so predictable a first-year law student could have written it [Belfast Telegraph]
Russian movie star thrown in the snow after ‘confronting famous wife’s lawyer over divorce’ [Mirror]
Lisa Kudrow is producing ‘dream come true’ gay legal drama Rebel Law [Metro]
Summer work placement at Kirkland & Ellis [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Definite parallels to Brexit. People don’t like being told who to vote for by perceived liberal elite and celebrities.” [Legal Cheek comments]