Author: Legal Cheek
Morning Round-Up: Monday 29 October
27 year-old Linklaters lawyer Daniel Bagshaw collapses and dies in Hong Kong triathlon [Mail Online]...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button 2. Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]...
#RoundMyKitchenTable PODCAST: How The Disappearance Of Privacy Is Driving Lawyers Crazy
These days, lawyers seem to spend half their time trying to come up with new...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 26 October
A death row struggle between advocates and lawyers [New York Times] Freshfields eyes Australia launch...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Legal book of the day [Twitter via David Allen Green] More shenanigans on prisoner votes...
Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button
The bit from Keir Starmer QC’s speech at the LSE last night that got everyone...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 25 October
Savile investigation: appointment of law firm linked to BBC questioned [The Independent] McCann’s case against...
End Of The Day Round-Up
How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 24 October
Law graduate snubbed by wedding hotels turns out to be star of adult TV [Mail...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Say no to Movember [The Kernel] Now BBC ‘censors’ Savile emails: Lawyers pull messages hinting...
The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law
There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 23 October
Blur drummer-turned Kingsley Napley solicitor Dave Rowntree attends Q awards bash on his lunch break...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Campaign team of PCC candidate Mervyn Barrett (who has rather a lot of Twitter followers)...
Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account
QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Protester Trenton Oldfield And His, Er, Oxford-Educated Lawyers…
While the decision to jail Trenton Oldfield has been greeted with shock – the New...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 October
Britain’s legal system needs an overhaul [Financial Times] Charon UK Tour update…and the new ‘Roving...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. Is It OK For a Law Firm To Publicly Describe One Of Its Secretaries...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Top female barrister’s career in tatters after assault conviction for pulling her 11-year-old daughter’s hair...
Parading Around With a Tyre On Your Head: Enough To Halt The Tide Of Co-op Law?
Spotted yesterday in Covent Garden: representatives of QualitySolicitors parading around with vegetables and tyres on...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 19 October
British court says Apple is way cooler than Samsung; but coolness ≠ IP infringement [Above...