Category: News
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...
EXCLUSIVE: College Of Law To Change Its Name To The ‘University Of Law’ – And Become A Proper University
The College of Law is to re-brand as the University of Law after being granted...
Standards Slipping At The Bar…
Picture courtesy of must-follow legal tweeter Jeremy Hopkins.
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 22 November
Judges’ lunchtime drinking at the Old Bailey [The Guardian] Lady Wheatcroft: “In particular the thing...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Boris: “If you want to take him to cleaners, take him to cleaners in London”...
Will It Soon Cost Nothing To Become a Lawyer?
Thanks to the trebling of undergraduate fees, the cost of legal education has reached new...