Author: Legal Cheek

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

Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?

Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...

May 28 2013 2:00pm

‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’

Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...

May 17 2013 2:10pm

How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?

Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...

May 13 2013 9:20am

Dynamo Legal founder’s eyebrows: a Twitter tribute

The new series of The Apprentice began last night, giving the world its first glimpse...

May 8 2013 9:20am

Podcast: The fight to protect the brand of ‘solicitor’ from the ABS barbarians

The momentum may be with Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) right now as they pour through...

May 7 2013 1:51pm

End of the day round-up

Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...

Apr 24 2013 5:43pm

Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre

Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...

Apr 24 2013 9:59am

The College of Law has changed…

Some of the more disengaged College University of Law students may have found themselves rather...

Apr 23 2013 9:38am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 April

In the future our police, lawyers and jails will be run by G4S [New Statesman]...

Apr 23 2013 8:30am

End of the day round-up

Naked rambler Stephen Gough appears nude in court [BBC News] It’s the end of the...

Apr 22 2013 5:52pm