* How can you spend £150 million? For the answer listen in to the dramatic reconstruction of the hearings about Bloody Sunday in January 1972, adapted from The Tricycle Theatre production and adapted by journalist and writer Richard Norton Tayor. Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a two-part programme that begins on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm today, is based on transcripts of the inquiry — but thankfully runs to just 58 minutes, slightly less than the seven years that has cost £150 million so far.

* Pinsent Masons is officially the most gay-friendly law firm in the UK according to gay rights group Stonewall. It was ranked 67th in Stonewall’s list of 100 gay friendly places to work. None of the other 17 law firms that are signed up to Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, a forum that promotes gay equality in the workplace, made it into the list.

* In what is destined to become the legal equivalent of The Samaritans, the Law Society is introducing a telephone helpline for junior lawyers starring into the abyss. Law students, trainees and solicitors with up to five year’s experience can use the helpline, one of several initiatives on offer from a new representative body looking after those at the less well-paid end of the profession. The Law Society’s Junior Lawyers Division aims to be the “voice of junior lawyers across the country and in every type of practice”. As well as a sympathetic ear when all-night photocopying threatens to push them over the edge, junior lawyers can also take advantage of the group’s social events, career advice and – last but not least –opportunities to volunteer their time to help the Law Society.

* A New York Supreme Court judge who has not received a pay increase since 2001 is said to be thinking of quitting because the money is so bad. According to The New York Law Journal, Robert Julian sent a resignation letter to state Governor Elliot Spitzer complaining of a “continued failure . . . to compensate the judiciary fairly”. Mr Julian, who earns $136,700 a year, added that he was “unwilling to further deplete my savings and reduce my lifestyle to continue in office".

* Linklaters staff were in mourning this week following the death of popular corporate partner Dominic Welham who succumbed to cancer at the age of 44. Colleauge Matthew Middleditch, said in a note to staff: "We have been privileged to have known Dominic as a good friend. He is going to leave a huge hole in our group. He always put in more than he took out; was invariably willing to help others and kept us all in good spirits at all times." A memorial service will be held in the City in late January.

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