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Law students are pompous, anal bores with ‘booming voices’ — claims BuzzFeed as it evaluates undergraduate personalities
Journalists at London office of social news website BuzzFeed think people who study law are much less cool than them
Video: lawyer attacks judge with a fly swatter before being punched by fellow advocate
CCTV footage of extraordinary Kazakhstan courtroom bust-up becomes viral hit
Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’
"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.
Morning round-up: Monday 21 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Members of Leeds' Zenith Chambers cool off with a 'Vodka Luge'
Law lecturer lip sync battles are a thing
Lip sync battles -- as popularised by British comic Stephen Merchant, whose classic lip sync performance on the Jimmy Fallon show has become a YouTube classic -- have finally reached the law
Transcript emerges of huge bust-up between judge and ‘breathtakingly arrogant’ barrister that has shocked the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has torn into a criminal barrister and referred him to the Bar Standards Board for getting into a slanging match with a Crown Court judge — but what did the pair actually say to each other?
Morning round-up: Friday 18 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Guardian illustrates law story with photo of … an erotica book?!
Morning round-up: Thursday 17 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Weird law firm names, part 386
Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker
Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins.
Just who is Jeremy Wright? Lawyers have never heard of new attorney general
Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them
In his own words: solicitor behind the viral 1981 Slaughter and May video on life in the good old days
James Mitchell — whose video of Slaughter and May 33 years ago went viral after being unearthed by Legal Cheek — recalls magic circle life in the dark ages.
Morning round-up: Wednesday 16 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Legal Cheek recently highlighted the barrister-turned-barista in Nottinghamshire, but now a fellow journalist has turned up what appears to be a barrister moonlighting in the coffee shop trade.
Training contracts in Wales — get ready for a spot of hazing
High street law firm newbies kitted out in silly clobber while the skateboarder from Dirty Sanchez takes over business development.
9 things not to do in a pupillage interview (if you’re an interviewer)
An anonymous bar wannabe draws on his recent pupillage interview experience to deliver some lessons to chambers.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 15 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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Francis Taylor Building -- the luggage collection
Dinah Rose QC to Barrister Hottie Experts: ‘Keep me out of your bloody lists’
Top Blackstone Chambers silk fires warning to Your Barrister Boyfriend duo as she joins Twitter ahead of Barrister Hottie 2014.