Tag: News

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...

Oct 27 2012 9:31am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]...

Oct 26 2012 6:23pm

#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...

Oct 26 2012 2:50pm

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...

Oct 26 2012 9:19am

Morning Round-Up: Friday 26 October

A death row struggle between advocates and lawyers [New York Times] Freshfields eyes Australia launch...

Oct 26 2012 8:27am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Legal book of the day [Twitter via David Allen Green] More shenanigans on prisoner votes...

Oct 25 2012 6:02pm

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...

Oct 25 2012 2:21pm

Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button

The bit from Keir Starmer QC’s speech at the LSE last night that got everyone...

Oct 25 2012 8:10am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 25 October

Savile investigation: appointment of law firm linked to BBC questioned [The Independent] McCann’s case against...

Oct 25 2012 7:59am

End Of The Day Round-Up

How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his...

Oct 24 2012 5:32pm

Happy Birthday: Legal Cheek Is One

A year ago today we launched with this post from Android. Since then, the site...

Oct 24 2012 2:42pm

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...

Oct 24 2012 8:32am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 24 October

Law graduate snubbed by wedding hotels turns out to be star of adult TV [Mail...

Oct 24 2012 7:55am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Say no to Movember [The Kernel] Now BBC ‘censors’ Savile emails: Lawyers pull messages hinting...

Oct 23 2012 5:48pm

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...

Oct 23 2012 12:50pm

The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law

There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...

Oct 23 2012 10:01am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 23 October

Blur drummer-turned Kingsley Napley solicitor Dave Rowntree attends Q awards bash on his lunch break...

Oct 23 2012 8:28am

Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account

QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...

Oct 22 2012 3:13pm

Arab Lawyers Union’s Reported Decision To Honour Law Student Suicide Bomber Could Spark UK Response

A story has been doing the rounds on Twitter and in the Blogosphere over the...

Oct 22 2012 12:33pm

Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Protester Trenton Oldfield And His, Er, Oxford-Educated Lawyers…

While the decision to jail Trenton Oldfield has been greeted with shock – the New...

Oct 22 2012 9:13am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 October

Britain’s legal system needs an overhaul [Financial Times] Charon UK Tour update…and the new ‘Roving...

Oct 22 2012 8:20am