Author: Judge John Hack

Following the popularity of the video of Slaughter and May in 1981, we have continued our trawl of YouTube and unearthed a 1985 episode of ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ starring Lord Denning and Noddy — which thankfully has a happy ending

While the rest of the legal profession scratches its head in bafflement at the elevation of Jeremy Wright and Robert Buckland, the Law Society President tweets fawning congratulations

A young woman in South Carolina launches a novel crowd-funding bid to cover degree fees after the Almighty provides career planning advice

Even a respected broadsheet falls into the trap of thinking British judges bang away like their Yankee counterparts

Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners

Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union

"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.

Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins.

Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them

High street law firm newbies kitted out in silly clobber while the skateboarder from Dirty Sanchez takes over business development.

Calling all students, trainee solicitors, hard-pressed pupils, struggling legal aid lawyers, general dole loafers and functioning alcoholics: the Law Society is flogging pints of Stella for £2.85!

33 years on, one Slaughter and May home video star is still at the firm, another is at Herbert Smith Freehills, while the solicitor behind the camera has left the law altogether.

Staff at high street solicitors’ practice unearth a disused mini-arsenal as they go round with dustpan and brush

Despite trying to pitch categories at high street and younger lawyers, only City slickers look likely to afford Chancery Lane’s gala event

A chap standing for the bench in the home of country music bears some striking resemblances to the man with the Lawgiver pistol and purveyor of summary executions

The tale of a lawyer who’s jacked it all in to run a café.

Bar Council warns barristers in 22-page guidance that mini-pupils should sign undertakings before arriving at chambers

Criminal lawyer puts out all-points bulletin on stolen wig, which went missing in middle of Harrow Crown Court trial.

Despite resources thrown at diversity and programmes, chambers still tilt towards elitism when recruiting, say silks

It was traumatic and shoes were hurled from windows, but eventually the country’s “top” divorce lawyer was able to sign her own fail-safe document

Mail-merge problems during restructuring consultation cause chaos.