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All 3 Previous Non-Lawyer Lord Chancellors Ended Up In Tower Of London, Lord Chief Justice Tells Chris Grayling

Chris Grayling, the new hard-line Lord Chancellor, isn’t the kind of guy who naturally elicits...

Oct 2 2012 9:29am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 2 October

Futurologist: firms starting to embrace new ways of working as ‘legal factories’ loom [Legal Futures]...

Oct 2 2012 8:30am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Man in court charged with having sex with a horse [This is Derbyshire] Ex-Herbert Smith...

Oct 1 2012 4:46pm

Fleein’ To The…Aegean? Graduate Job Strategy Of The Week

Spotted over the weekend on thestudentroom.co.uk… “Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows how...

Oct 1 2012 12:09pm

Happy New Legal Year!

Thanks to lawyer and fitness guru Mark Stephens for alerting us to the fact that...

Oct 1 2012 9:29am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 1 October

Time Warner accuses female lawyer of ordering 17 porn movies in four days [Mail Online]...

Oct 1 2012 8:03am

Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories

1. Mr Loophole Closes Down His Law Firm, All Staff Made Redundant 2. Law Firm...

Sep 29 2012 10:48am

End Of The Day Round-Up

BPP Law School Bar Professional Training Course graduate suing Asda for £15K after its security...

Sep 28 2012 4:33pm

Five YouTube Clips Every Wannabe Barrister Should Watch

Pupil barrister-to-be OccupyTheInns reveals some unlikely heroes as he advises Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...

Sep 28 2012 11:09am

Who Said Judges Don’t Get Social Media?

The full transcript of yesterday’s annual press conference with the Lord Chief Justice is very...

Sep 28 2012 9:14am

Morning Round-Up: Friday 28 September

The lawyers on the FA panel that has banned and fined John Terry for racial...

Sep 28 2012 8:34am

End Of The Day Round-Up

How barrister-to-be gave a group of disruptive children one last chance of an education in...

Sep 27 2012 5:56pm

EXCLUSIVE: Mr Loophole Closes Down His Law Firm, All Staff Made Redundant

Freeman Keep On Driving, the specialist drink driving law firm owned by Nick “Mr Loophole”...

Sep 27 2012 2:10pm

Michael Mansfield: Women ‘Seriously Underrepresented’ In Parliament (No. Of Female QCs In Mansfield’s Chambers: 0)

“The House of Commons is not representative of the electorate,” began a high-minded letter in...

Sep 27 2012 9:39am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 27 September

Shot burglars told by Judge Michael Pert QC ‘that’s the chance you take’ [The Sun]...

Sep 27 2012 8:13am

End Of The Day Round-Up

‘Leaks uncool’ according to Yahoo general counsel’s leaked memo [Corporate Counsel] Solicitor’s pioneering free Twitter...

Sep 26 2012 5:33pm

Law Firm Exclaims ‘Delight’ At Having 43,000 Twitter Followers; Fails To Mention They’re Almost All Fake

In its September newsletter, Blavo & Co Solicitors professes itself “excited and delighted by our...

Sep 26 2012 1:29pm

Twitter Set To Drive ‘Free-Of-Charge Ferrari Through The Horse And Cart World Of Law’

A Twitter legal advice experiment taking place today could prove a turning point for the...

Sep 26 2012 9:22am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 26 September

Top lawyer arrested for ‘raping two women at knifepoint at different massage parlours’ [Mail Online]...

Sep 26 2012 8:29am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Tax barrister drags economic justice campaigners from room and calls them ‘trespassing scum’ and ‘intruders’...

Sep 25 2012 5:48pm

The Graduate Diploma in Law: At First It Makes You Happy…

Assorted scenes from week one, term one, of the GDL And a taster of week...

Sep 25 2012 1:06pm