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Legal pic of the day
Interesting decision by Bolton law firm Winder Taylor Fallows to go with an acronym.
Barristers vent pupillage application sift pain on Twitter
Social media-loving barristers are increasingly turning to Twitter to share the tedium of graduate recruitment.
A tie for Mondays
"My dad, a lawyer, gave this to me," writes Imgur user 'Swedishish'. "He had it for years but told me he never had the courage to wear it in court."
Morning round-up: Monday 12 May
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Someone's got to do it...
Would you turn down pupillage at a top chambers to go travelling?
A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world.
The Mitchell decision and the breakdown of meaning
Following the recent further spate of Mitchell-related decisions, it has been determined after careful study of the ratio in each ruling that judges are simply making this stuff up as they go along.
Morning round-up: Friday 9 May
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Are you sure that's how you spell 'Ashurst'?
There is a lawyer performing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
Junior corporate lawyer Sebastiano Paù-Lessi is representing Switzerland as his whistling fiddler alter ego "Sebalter".
Junior solicitor releases rap album about how much he hated his training contract at top City firm
'Square Meal, Square Mile' details solicitor's unhappiness during TC at top 10 City outfit.
Morning round-up: Thursday 8 May
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Hot-on-the heels of Wankford v Wankford comes this puerile humour gem.
Why lawyers need to shower more
Survey of City solicitors finds that they are at their most creative while showering.
An anatomy of Kaplan’s doomed BPTC
Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.
Morning round-up: Wednesday 7 May
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
An army of tabs gathers in anticipation of the open book exam.
Kaplan Law School to quit pricey Thames-side campus
Move away from South Bank premises follows ditching of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), as Kaplan re-focuses on Legal Practice Course (LPC) which is to be extended to include a free LLM qualification.
Suspended lawyer’s bid to marry his porn-filled laptop is dismissed by judge
Lawyer claims he "fell in love" with computer and "preferred having sex with it over all other persons or things".
9 charmingly vulgar lawyer personalised number plates
Because it's important that other road users know you're a lawyer.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 6 May
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.