Tag: News
Expert: Law Society claim that rising pro bono is filling the legal aid gap is ‘misleading’
Volunteering by lawyers to help individuals hit by cuts may actually be falling
Morning round-up: Tuesday 4 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The end of the training contract? Law school and firm combine to launch new ‘articled apprenticeship’ route
It means students working through their degree, but they could qualify as solicitors debt free
The Citizenship Foundation is developing a very cool legal education app — and it needs law student and lawyer writers
Help charity create legal plotlines to engage young people with the law
Inns scholarship money wasted on ‘expensive, unproductive’ BPTC, says former Lord Chief Justice
Entry to the bar could be on the verge of a historic overhaul
Kanye WestLaw Twitter parody charts law student experience from perspective of gaffe-prone rapper
What social media has been waiting for
Morning round-up: Monday 3 November
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
For a judge that’s ‘right up to 11’: livid Sir James Munby launches most scathing attack on Grayling yet
Shocking case — which saw vulnerable couple and their child denied legal aid — makes the blood of nation’s top family judge boil
Halloween exclusive: Son of Dracula speaks to Legal Cheek — he’s a lawyer
Bela Lugosi Jr is a longstanding top flight Hollywood attorney who was instrumental in campaign for groundbreaking image rights legislation in California
Bar regulators launch yet another education and training review
Latest reform package from Bar Standards Board seems long on jargon and short on specifics
Morning round-up: Friday 31 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The Apprentice review: ex-Slaughter and May associate humiliated in ‘Fat Daddy’ video flop
What happens when lawyers try to get videos to go viral on purpose
Full transcript: dictator Manuel Noriega’s failed claim against Call of Duty makers for basing character on him
Panama’s former military hard-man sees case thrown out of court
Morning round-up: Thursday 30 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
New Tumblr names and shames media outlets which misuse gavels
A blogger on a leading social media site has joined Legal Cheek’s crusade against the misuse of little wooden hammer imagery -- but is it a losing battle?
City law firm drafting fail makes Dubai student dream break impossible to win
Because lawyers can draft error-free terms and conditions, right?
Morning round-up: Wednesday 29 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Legal pic the of the day
Who cycles in their wig?
Martha Costello QC to become a US attorney as she swaps chambers for ‘world’s top law firm’
Star of BBC legal drama to follow a reverse version of Amal Clooney's career path in American re-make
Why aren’t big law firms aiming for half their partners to be women?
Latest round of 30% women partner targets look do-able — but why so unambitious?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 28 October
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts