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]...

Oct 29 2012 9:30am

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...

Oct 27 2012 9:31am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]...

Oct 26 2012 6:23pm

#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...

Oct 26 2012 2:50pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 26 October

A death row struggle between advocates and lawyers [New York Times] Freshfields eyes Australia launch...

Oct 26 2012 8:27am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Legal book of the day [Twitter via David Allen Green] More shenanigans on prisoner votes...

Oct 25 2012 6:02pm

Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button

The bit from Keir Starmer QC’s speech at the LSE last night that got everyone...

Oct 25 2012 8:10am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 25 October

Savile investigation: appointment of law firm linked to BBC questioned [The Independent] McCann’s case against...

Oct 25 2012 7:59am

End Of The Day Round-Up

How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his...

Oct 24 2012 5:32pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 24 October

Law graduate snubbed by wedding hotels turns out to be star of adult TV [Mail...

Oct 24 2012 7:55am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Say no to Movember [The Kernel] Now BBC ‘censors’ Savile emails: Lawyers pull messages hinting...

Oct 23 2012 5:48pm

The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law

There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...

Oct 23 2012 10:01am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 23 October

Blur drummer-turned Kingsley Napley solicitor Dave Rowntree attends Q awards bash on his lunch break...

Oct 23 2012 8:28am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Campaign team of PCC candidate Mervyn Barrett (who has rather a lot of Twitter followers)...

Oct 22 2012 6:14pm

Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account

QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...

Oct 22 2012 3:13pm

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...

Oct 22 2012 9:13am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 October

Britain’s legal system needs an overhaul [Financial Times] Charon UK Tour update…and the new ‘Roving...

Oct 22 2012 8:20am

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...

Oct 20 2012 9:36am

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...

Oct 19 2012 5:45pm

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...

Oct 19 2012 12:19pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 19 October

British court says Apple is way cooler than Samsung; but coolness ≠ IP infringement [Above...

Oct 19 2012 8:19am