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End of the day round-up
Bridget Jones’ barrister heart-throb Mark Darcy has been killed off [Evening Standard] Barrister Hottie founders...
The 11 most glistening pearls of wisdom from #AskATrainee
Yesterday between 5-6pm the latest #AskATrainee session took place on Twitter. Not all of the...
Tooks chief Michael Mansfield: 3 more chambers ‘in equal trouble and likely to go in next few months’
Michael Mansfield QC has claimed that “at least three” chambers are in similar difficulties to...
Morning round-up: Monday 30 September
Chris Grayling is 6′ 5″! [The Spectator] Conservative Party conference blog [Law Society Gazette] Shamed...
End of the day round-up
Bob Dylan’s hair, and eight other unusual legal settlements [ABA Journal] Trainee solicitor guilty of...
10 law firm ads that are so bad they’re good
By bringing in international ad agency M&C Saatchi to market its services to the public,...
‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’
After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...
Morning round-up: Friday 27 September
The tricky matter of tweeting that Legal500 ranking: does one opt for a humblebrag or...
End of the day round-up
David Allen Green: “Whether someone brandishing a sword whilst wearing a blindfold is an appropriate...
Corporate lawyer who released rap about securing first job returns with personal life-themed R&B follow-up
Last year Mike Lickver celebrated getting a foot on the ladder at a top Canadian...
Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week
It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually...
Morning round-up: Thursday 26 September
Who owns the moon? Time to call in the “space lawyers” [The Telegraph] Chris Grayling:...
End of the day round-up
“Uh oh *Chris Grayling plans for “dealing with the ECHR” klaxon*” [@AdamWagner1 on Twitter] Hackers...
Law student told he can’t board EasyJet flight after slamming airline on Twitter
A Strathclyde University PhD law student has sparked a PR nightmare for easyJet after a...
The legal profession’s first tweets
It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 25 September
Michael Mansfield QC told off for being “much too combative and much too aggressive” after...
End of the day round-up
Raccoon disrupts US courtroom [Sun Herald] Former Law Society Council member attacked her elderly parents...
Podcast: ‘Should I call off my hunt for a training contract?’
A year after finishing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Queen Mary University of London...
Starting law school #Pippatips
The BPP Law School Twitter account has spent the last week tweeting some of the...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 24 September
Escaping armed robber is stopped by court reporter’s rugby tackle after leaping from the dock...
End of the day round-up
Barrister: “I can categorically confirm that Chris Grayling has never done a mini-pupillage with me”...