The UK legal blogging community doesn’t tend to get much attention from the press, but a recent bitter row involving one of its pioneers perhaps warrants a wider audience.

During the last few weeks, Simon Myerson QC of Byrom Street Chambers, author of the blog Pupillage and How to Get It, has become embroiled in an angry online spat with Oxbridge Training Contracts (OTC), a controversial company which provides model training contract and pupillage applications for prospective lawyers (see legalweek.com, 24 March).