Author: Legal Cheek

Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories

1. Video: Clifford Chance trainee in ‘f*cking people over for money’ YouTube boast 2. Solicitor,...

Sep 14 2013 10:31am

Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts

Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about...

Sep 6 2013 10:54am

Podcast: Hard-working Generation Y puts Xers to shame — but will the graft pay off?

Once upon a time, when higher education was free and jobs plentiful, a generation of...

Sep 3 2013 1:02pm

Law firm pens are officially everywhere

Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...

Aug 27 2013 1:20pm

Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 August

Are Britain’s barristers living on borrowed time? [The Telegraph] Trainee barrister who obtained council flat...

Aug 21 2013 8:05am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 12 August

Tennessee judge orders parents to change their son’s name from Messiah to Martin, because “only...

Aug 12 2013 8:20am

The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too

As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified...

Aug 7 2013 9:26am

5 ways to announce to the world that you’ve bagged a pupillage

Friday was, of course, pupillage offer day. For the lucky ones, there was delight, followed...

Aug 5 2013 9:00am

11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day

As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into...

Aug 1 2013 9:23am

18 year-old becomes youngest ever barrister after passing BPTC

Gabrielle Turnquest, 18, will become the youngest person in the history of the English and...

Jul 30 2013 1:33pm

The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?

Someone at “The Tomes” seems to have been in a little bit too much of...

Jul 23 2013 11:05am

Legal job website of the week

“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...

Jul 18 2013 2:09pm

Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July

Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures] Will Frankie...

Jul 17 2013 8:07am

Name that UK Supreme Court Justice

The 12 UK Supreme Court judges may not rack up Justin Bieber levels of views...

Jul 12 2013 2:11pm

Morning round-up: Friday 21 June

“Astonishing” letter from Attorney General hints at government split over legal aid reform [Legal Futures]...

Jun 21 2013 8:21am

End of the day round-up

Twitter and Facebook users who post offensive messages online are likely to escape prosecution if...

Jun 20 2013 5:31pm

Morning round-up: Thursday 20 June

Judge accepts testimony from Michael Jackson’s “ghost” in court [Now] Moral Maze: Pornography and the...

Jun 20 2013 8:27am

Top QC laments daughter’s indifference to mini-pupillage offer

As spotted in the letters section of yesterday’s The Times.

Jun 7 2013 9:00am

As MoJ consultation on legal aid closes, the UK criminal justice system is placed on ebay

Bidding closes on 11 June, with the UK criminal justice system “available to the lowest...

Jun 5 2013 7:52am

Quitting a big law firm to become an entrepreneur: the exhilaration and the fear

Last month Pete Dowds left DLA Piper’s London office for the final time. The three...

May 31 2013 1:54pm

Just another day at the Chancery Lane Starbucks

Image by @LeonGlenister.

May 30 2013 4:20pm