Tag: News

Morning round-up: Thursday 26 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jun 26 2014 7:57am

Wonga fake law firms — where did they get those names?

Parody accounts already alive on Twitter as pay-day lender coughs up millions in compensation

Jun 25 2014 3:09pm

2 Hare Court barrister set to be UK’s telly Judge Judy

Multi-million pound fraud specialist plucked to hear cases of lawn mower failure and duff holidays

Jun 25 2014 12:55pm

Solicitor under fire for calling Alex Salmond an ‘ars*hole’

War of words rages north of the border — and perks up independence debate — following inflammatory tweet

Jun 25 2014 9:02am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 25 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jun 25 2014 8:01am

Law firm toilets: a critical reflection

Legal profession toilets aren’t quite at 'Trainspotting' levels of degradation, but many could do better

Jun 24 2014 2:52pm

Junior lawyer doubles as online underwear model

Will colleagues at Winston & Strawn’s London office follow suit by ... er ... stripping off their suits?

Jun 24 2014 12:19pm

Phone hacking lawyer’s Twitter gets hacked — and he becomes most followed member of UK legal profession

Tens of thousands of fake followers descend on Mark Lewis after — irony of ironies — his Twitter account is hacked.

Jun 24 2014 9:10am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 24 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jun 24 2014 8:02am

Workload and client expectations are by far the biggest causes of stress for lawyers

60% of stressed-out solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations.

Jun 23 2014 7:44am

Morning round-up: Monday 23 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jun 23 2014 7:21am

You can be a lawyer and simultaneously live your childhood Indiana Jones dream

Combining law firm marketing with action hero role-play.

Jun 20 2014 11:48am

11 eyebrow-raisingly honest tweets from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain’s trainee-controlled Twitter account

15 hour days and "being sent to buy lingerie on the weekend": trainee solicitors reveal what life at big law firm is really like.

Jun 20 2014 9:04am

Morning round-up: Friday 20 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Jun 20 2014 8:09am

Lawyer Vs judge bust-ups are so much more civilised on this side of the pond

Barrister's live-tweeting of his appeal against contempt of court fine is about as rebellious as English lawyers get.

Jun 19 2014 12:08pm

Student pulls out of GDL for a bid at the catwalk

Times are tough for law students – which is possibly why one has said sod it, I’ll splurge my student loan on cosmetic surgery

Jun 19 2014 9:10am

Morning round-up: Thursday 19 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Jun 19 2014 8:11am

Report highlights hard times at the bar over conditions and pay

Longer hours, an increasing chance of being bullied and falling incomes -- that is the grim picture of modern life at the bar, as painted by the profession’s own leadership.

Jun 18 2014 1:11pm

Law Society rife with bullying and discrimination, but at least it’s got ‘values’

Solicitors’ representation body in desperate bid to steady ship as search to replace chief executive drowns in jargon and rivalries

Jun 18 2014 11:49am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 18 June

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts. Social media mass surveillance is...

Jun 18 2014 8:00am

QC bids to be the bar’s Barbara Cartland

Housing law specialist creates bodice-ripping alter ego with steamy tales of the Inns of Court

Jun 17 2014 3:19pm