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That awkward moment when your celebrity client tweets his horror at the copyright infringement letter you sent on his behalf
London IP law firm Carpmaels & Ransford maintains dignified silence after TV adventurer Bear Grylls lifts legal threat against start-up knife company 'Bear Blades'
Law student who claimed benefits while at uni is given even more work to do
This is what happens when you don't cancel jobseeker's allowance after starting law school...
Morning round-up: Monday 11 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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Interestingly-shaped paper clip on documents sent out by an unnamed law firm
Young lawyer shortlist announced for Law Society ‘excellence awards’
The Law Society’s excellent adventure kicks off again this year with 17 award categories for solicitors, including a gong for training
Durham tops ‘Most Impressive Law School Buildings in the World’ list
English universities take first and second spot in (slightly random) list of visually splendid law schools, with five more institutions from our green and pleasant land featuring elsewhere in the top 50.
Morning round-up: Friday 8 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
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The continuing mystery of who owns a monkey-selfie
Political blog Guido Fawkes attacks Oxford Uni Labour club chair for doing vac schemes at top City law firms
Law student's social media footprint used by popular right-wing blog to make 'champagne socialism' accusations that don't quite hit the mark
#ThrowbackThursday: Back to the Future II basically predicted the legal aid cuts
Spookily, 1989 cult classic Back to the Future II — which is set in 2015 — forecast not only hipster fashion, but the end of lawyers…
Morning round-up: Thursday 7 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Moving moment
Too many lawyers? Blame the bankers
The rocketing number of law graduates -- and the topsy-like growth of the legal profession over the last generation -- has got The Times worried. But the numbers aren’t as simple as they seem
Revealed: the really badly written and fake-sounding LPC scam emails that have spurred SRA warning
Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers
Morning round-up: Wednesday 6 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Has Breaking Bad lawyer Saul Goodman moved to Edinburgh?
Addressing a judge: just don’t call them ‘Your Majesty’
Beware, wannabe lawyers, of emulating defendant at Grimsby Crown Court in using the royal address to greet a judge
The unlucky law firm which went from sharing name with Holocaust denier to sharing name with terrorist group
David M Irving Solicitors may be rueing its 2007 ‘Isis Legal’ rebrand
Morning round-up: Tuesday 5 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
On today's centenary of the start of the first world war, this photo shows members of the Inns of Court Regiment being drilled in Hertfordshire during the conflict
Edinburgh Uni law graduate cracks America with hilarious ad for his new firm
Scottish solicitor Peter Reid, who moved to Texas in 2010, succeeds where many Brits have failed as he wows US with YouTube masterpiece