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LPC applications fall by 10% despite 8% rise in training contracts
Decline in LPC applications suggests that students don't believe recent increase in training contract numbers will be sustained.
Morning round-up: Monday 7 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Intellectual property infringin'
11 tweets from the #hipsterlaw hashtag that are probably too hilariously ironic for most lawyers to understand
A hashtag spawned by Sean Jones QC took off this morning.
There shall be a 2014 ‘Barrister Hottie’ List — and nominations are open
The Barrister Hottie Experts will once again breach Inns of Court protocol and objectify hapless members of the Bar by ranking them according to their looks.
No computers, smoking in the office and a comment about a female trainee’s ‘backside’: this video of Slaughter and May from 1981 is incredible
Someone has put a video on YouTube that was filmed inside top City law firm Slaughter and May in 1981.
Morning round-up: Friday 4 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Lawyer graffiti
‘Right to be forgotten’ ruling sees article about ‘foul-mouthed’ ex-Law Society president removed from Google
Articles in The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian about Robert Sayer disappear from search engine after implementation of controversial ruling.
7 spectacular legal typos
When jargon goes very wrong indeed...