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Morning Round-Up: Thursday 29 November
The future of the legal profession in England and Wales: depressing or inspiring? [Standpoint] Transfer...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Are magistrates and juries using Google to help them reach their verdicts? [The Telegraph] SNR...
Why You Shouldn’t Post The Viral Mumbo Jumbo Legal Message On Your Facebook Wall
Earlier in the day we posted a note on our Facebook page about the pseudo-legal...
JOB ALERT: Russian-Speaking Paralegal
From Baby Barristers: a leading London-based international law firm seeks a paralegal who speaks fluent...
Bringing Facebook-Style Hackathons To The Law
Legal Cheek’s tech correspondent i@n davison shares his diary from one of the all-night hackathons...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 28 November
Can you get around Facebook’s terms of service by posting some legal-sounding mumbo-jumbo on your...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Wannabe lawyers face new embarrassing Twitter archive threat [Mail Online] ‘If I could turn back...
‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ Issues Challenge Based On The Life Of SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC
Viewers of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the other night heard Hugo...
London-Based US Lawyer Embarks On Second Round Of Brit-Bashing In His Hilarious Blog
I may have gone a little too far last month when I urged criminals to...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 27 November
Milking: an udderly bizarre student trend [The Guardian] Leveson Inquiry will be shelved or re-assigned...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Gateley to axe 19 fee-earner positions from English offices [The Lawyer] Naked man who climbed...
Terrible Job Application Website Pupillage Portal To Close – And Be Replaced By ‘Pupillage Gateway’
Error-prone pupillage application website Pupillage Portal is to be put out of its misery –...
Survey Slams ‘Dry’ And ‘Staid’ UK Law Firm Websites
Most of the top 30 UK law firms have “mediocre” websites that are defined by...
Barrister Who Accused Lord McAlpine Of Being a Paedophile Issues Grovelling Apology – As Peer’s Legal Team Confirms It’s Investigating Him
Earlier this month we revealed that one of the bloggers who wrongly named Lord McAlpine...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 26 November
“The newspapers will print nothing but Leveson Leveson Leveson this week” [Adam Wagner via Twitter]...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The College Of Law – Bloomsbury Branch Joins Inner Temple As...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Part of Whitehall shut due to naked man on statue [BBC News – photo via @johnestevens]...
‘As Just A Normal Bloke I Couldn’t Imagine Myself Being Able To Make It Into This Exclusive Club’
Ed note: This is the fifth in a series of posts where leading members of...
‘Solicitor Saturday’: Law Firm Releases Surreal Personal Injury-Themed Sky Sports Spoof
For those unfamiliar with the show, Sky Sports’ ‘Soccer Saturday’ sees washed-up ex-footballers offer excitable...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 23 November
German lawyer claims 38DD girlfriend tried to smother him to death with her breasts [Mail...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Hit by cottaging revelations on Monday, becomes a university on Thursday: What a week for...