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Morning Round-Up: Monday 29 October
27 year-old Linklaters lawyer Daniel Bagshaw collapses and dies in Hong Kong triathlon [Mail Online]...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button 2. Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]...
#RoundMyKitchenTable PODCAST: How The Disappearance Of Privacy Is Driving Lawyers Crazy
These days, lawyers seem to spend half their time trying to come up with new...
‘The Chances You Don’t Take Are The Ones You Regret’
Ed note: This is the first in a series of posts where leading members of...
Law Society Gazette’s Legal Personality Of The Year Karen Todner Backs Decision To Scrap Trainee Minimum Wage
Karen Todner may have helped save Gary McKinnon from extradition to the US, but when...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 26 October
A death row struggle between advocates and lawyers [New York Times] Freshfields eyes Australia launch...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Legal book of the day [Twitter via David Allen Green] More shenanigans on prisoner votes...
Law Grad’s Hip Hop Video About Securing Job At Top Firm
Mike Lickver (pictured) has crowned his journey from law school to landing a job at...
Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button
The bit from Keir Starmer QC’s speech at the LSE last night that got everyone...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 25 October
Savile investigation: appointment of law firm linked to BBC questioned [The Independent] McCann’s case against...
End Of The Day Round-Up
How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his...
Happy Birthday: Legal Cheek Is One
A year ago today we launched with this post from Android. Since then, the site...
Fake QC Who Offered Bogus Pupillages Was Campaign Manager Of PCC Candidate Mervyn Barrett, Claims Solicitor
This is one of those ‘Wow, just wow!’ stories. It has two strands, which come...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 24 October
Law graduate snubbed by wedding hotels turns out to be star of adult TV [Mail...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Say no to Movember [The Kernel] Now BBC ‘censors’ Savile emails: Lawyers pull messages hinting...
Please, No More ‘Nietzsche And The Law’! Why Americans Are Looking Enviously At The GDL Route To Legal Qualification
In comparison to our odd system of legal education – which sprawls haphazardly from the...
The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law
There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 23 October
Blur drummer-turned Kingsley Napley solicitor Dave Rowntree attends Q awards bash on his lunch break...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Campaign team of PCC candidate Mervyn Barrett (who has rather a lot of Twitter followers)...
Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account
QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...