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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
Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year
First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially
Morning round-up: Monday 4 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Happy Yorkshire Day!
A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day
Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today
Morning round-up: Friday 1 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Can a tattoo be legally binding?
An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day
Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle
The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
How has it come to this?
Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf sale’ sign all day?
Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor
Morning round-up: Thursday 31 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Legal hurdles
Judge told barrister to nip down to Chinese takeaway — for an interpreter
Glitch in outsourcing services blamed for lack of Mandarin speaker in trial at Cardiff Crown Court
Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying -- but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper
Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become a luxury hotel
Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement's foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues
Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Notice board niggles
Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm
The craze of getting the general public to finance a business -- and run the risk of failure -- has taken a giant leap in the legal profession
Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
Life as a solicitor or barrister isn't always what it seems
Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Soldiers march past the RCJ during the First World War