Author: Judge John Hack

Bar fashion wars -- Doughty Street head takes on chambers colleague Amal Clooney

There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking

It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting

A round-up of the party election manifestos demonstrates yet again that while the legal profession might have right on its side, the political establishment of all colours doesn’t give a monkey’s

Pastafarians preferred, says an Auckland barrister in desperate bid to replace the last chap, who never fit in owing to odd film tastes

Life for follicly-challenged lawyers made a misery by London gulls -- but help on hand

Award winning lawyer warns that senior politicians of all stripes must guard against turning the debate “toxic” as nationwide message is pitched at public

City law firms back star-studded cast in its pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to system

Bar Council report lashes providers for churning out an expensive yet poorly regarded course -- and the aptitude test is equally lambasted

Smaller practices are outpacing larger firms, but across the board the profession is more diverse than the wider population

A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands -- all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid

Release of online bombing map of the London Blitz shows some of the world’s biggest names in corporate law could be at risk of being blown to kingdom come

In a landmark move, barristers’ regulator gears up to authorise 15 new “entities” that look and smell a lot like solicitors’ firms -- and will compete with them

Survey of top 100 practices shows major threat to profits in battle for top talent against backdrop of continuing client pressure on fees

Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers

Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report

From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist

One Direction April Fools’ joke comes true (sort of) as Legal Cheek unearths a young barrister in Lincoln’s Inn who could be the boy-bander of the law

Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits

Philadelphia law school of many expensive names investigates how a link to Porn Hub was included in helpful guide to students

Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed