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Morning round-up: Thursday 30 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
University of Law tight-lipped over BPTC launch for Leeds and Manchester
So-called northern powerhouse cities already have 285 bar courses on offer -- and only 26 pupillage places
Clifford Chance outstrips rivals in bid to field most charity walkers
Law firms can’t resist competing with each other -- even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates
Litigant-in-person files notice to ‘f*ck this court and everything it stands for’
This expletive-fuelled -- but strangely nearly cogent -- notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever
Law firm charges wannabe solicitors thousands for homemade diploma and internship
Exclusive: The very expensive fortnight may leave students in more debt and still jobless
Morning round-up: Wednesday 29 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Star Wars fighters do battle above lawyer heads in Manchester
Office block lobby in building that houses three leading law firms has been turned into dreamland for the film’s addicts
Twitter outpouring as R v Brown dissenting judge dies
Lord Mustill stood up for the right of consenting adults to get involved in a spot of painful S&M -- but he was on the losing side
9 hateful Daily Mail comments about lawyers prompted by the illegal cycling of Justine Thornton
Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers
Pupillage places slip below the 400 mark for the first time
Training contracts tumbled yesterday, now it’s the turn of wannabe barristers to face bad news …