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Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers
We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn't one, really — other than to participate in the trend for face swaps sweeping the internet. For the last few weeks, the Inns of...
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The most warped employment tribunal arguments used by claimants to (generally...
A recent tribunal which saw a teacher compare Jews to Star Trek's Vulcans — and attempt to pass off his associated anti-Semitic conspiracy theory as a "philosophical belief" — reminds WaitroseLaw of...
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Spoof Lord Chief Justice application by Lord Justice Moses (aged 67½) — the...
On Friday the Law Society Gazette's Catherine Baksi reported that Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Moses had written a spoof application to become the next Lord Chief Justice (a post which now requires...
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Do the lawyers who are demanding that @Pippatips be deleted understand Twitter?
According to The Independent, Harbottle & Lewis is demanding, on behalf of Pippa Middleton, that the brilliant Twitter account @Pippatips be deleted. As top media lawyers, Harbottle & Lewis, of...
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Cycling solicitor who jumped red light claims filming him is ‘against data...
Woe betide any red light-jumping cyclist who encounters SonOfTheWinds, a YouTube phenomenon who spends his time patrolling the streets of London for bike-related road traffic infringements — and then...
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Legal job website of the week
"We don't list law jobs everyone wants," reads the mission statement of US legal job website Shit Law Jobs. "Instead, we list jobs most lawyers likely wouldn't want. Hey, beats being unemployed." How...
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JK Rowling slams Soho law firm — Soho law firm hangs partner out to dry
"To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I had assumed that I could expect total confidentiality from Russells, a reputable professional firm, and I feel very angry that my trust turned...
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‘You need an offer…but you only need one’
It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and a longer interlude as a government lawyer before top law blogger Carl Gardner discovered what he really wanted to do......
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Adventures in law firm marketing
Spotted yesterday in fashionable London artist enclave Hackney Wick. In the interests of accuracy, it should be pointed out that, alongside cash, Norton Rose Fulbright also accepts both credit and...
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The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?
Someone at "The Tomes" seems to have been in a little bit too much of a hurry to reveal that CPS chief crown prosecutor for London "Ailson" Saunders is to succeed Keir Starmer as Director of Public...
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Olympic rower cleared of assault: Clifford Chance associate ‘was like a dog...
Olympic rower Sean Corrigall has been cleared today of assaulting Clifford Chance associate Edward Dyson at Mayfair nightclub Mahiki. During the trial at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court, Durham...
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Think a pregnancy monitored by the world’s media is stressful? Try starting a...
"Many law firms seem to take the attitude that once you've got a bun in the oven, you're toast," writes WaitroseLaw. Having your every bout of morning sickness reported on, facing catty questions...
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‘Why, oh why, am I a barrister?’
In this week's 'If I knew then what I know now', human rights barrister Barbara Hewson — who earlier this year caused uproar with a highly controversial piece on Operation Yewtree for Spiked Magazine...
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Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to...
A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to declare that the trial of Jesus and his subsequent crucifixion went against the principles of a fair trial. As...
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The legal aid rally at the Old Bailey: As it happened on social meeja
As a mob of lawyers descended upon the Old Bailey yesterday afternoon, recalling the days of public hangings outside the court, justice secretary Chris Grayling may have breathed a sigh of relief at...
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11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day
As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into history last night, stressed out wannabe lawyers bared their souls on Twitter. It wasn't a pretty...
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How junior lawyers can survive a merger
In the wake of yesterday's tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons — to form the snappily-named King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin — grizzled merger veteran WaitroseLaw shares her...
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Tuckers senior partner says it’s ‘not my job 2 care about justice’ and that...
After David Dickinson look-a-like (and Tuckers Solicitors senior partner) Franklin Sinclair showed off his Jaguar again on recently-concluded ITV documentary The Briefs, it was a matter of time before...
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‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was...
In this week's 'If I knew then what I know now', former Bond Pearce solicitor Julian Summerhayes wonders how things could have turned out if he'd focused less on the daily grind of law and thought more...
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The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too
As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified in Monday's Dispatches documentary on the manipulation of social media — extends to the legal profession....
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