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BPP boss tweets — then deletes — photo of him and ‘BPP Law School parent’ Tony Blair
Yesterday BPP chief Carl Lygo tweeted this photo of himself grinning next to a less...
Morning round-up: Thursday 3 October
The Daniel Cleaver Cleave-Off [Your Barrister Boyfriend] UK’s most senior judge Lord Neuberger ducks question...
End of the day round-up
How much are you hated by the Daily Mail? [UsVsTh3m] Courts are too soft on...
Former Law Society Council member jailed after bizarre series of assaults described by judge as ‘of the utmost depravity’
Followers of legal news may recall a memorable 2011 assault committed by a solicitor which...
The first day of the legal year: as documented via the smartphones of the nation’s top lawyers
Yesterday was, of course, the first day of the legal year. As is tradition, the...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 2 October
Criminal barristers are threatening disruptive action if the Ministry of Justice goes ahead with cuts...
End of the day round-up
Six questions for Chris Grayling on human rights [New Statesman] Welshman Sir John Thomas takes...
Barrister crosses that not-so-fine line between ‘fearless advocacy’ and ‘courtroom anarchy’
The juicy content of the final Court of Appeal judgment of outgoing Lord Chief Justice...
Legal typo of the week
From a recently-filed document in Frazier v Honeywell Pension and Savings Plan… The howler, which...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 October
Barrister Hottie of the Week: The Mark Darcy Duel [YourBarristerBoyfriend] Barrister resigns from CPS sex...
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...