Category: Comment
Beware the bursting of law’s artificial intelligence bubble
Legal tech is a long story of incremental change, not revolution
The wretched Watson Glaser test and why I think it should be scrapped
Why do grad recruiters still use the 85-year-old test?
Why KWM’s demise isn’t the end of the world for its future trainees-to-no-longer-be
So law isn’t the safe career you thought
In defence of the solicitor super-exam… an NQ’s perspective
The SQE will stop the LPC gamble
Taking the fear out of being different at the bar
Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC on why she’s backing FreeBar, a new bar-wide LGBT+ initiative
Withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights – the next Brexit?
Catgate PM talks of "clean break" with European court and convention
The bookies’ odds: Will the Supreme Court overturn the High Court’s Brexit ruling?
And why things might go the other way...
Article 127: the new Brexit legal stumbling block?
And it wasn't a lawyer or a law academic who spotted it
Why the new higher education bill is not the solution for improving the state of legal education
Will the negative consequences outweigh its good intentions?
The Russell Group bubble looks like it might burst
Status-obsessed legal profession may tire of brand that has lost its sheen
Not coming to the UK anytime soon: Brexit
Lawyers are set to be busy working out how the UK’s departure from the EU will happen -- if, that is, it ever does
Could Tinder help you get a training contract?
I’m not talking about widening the age range on your profile so you can match with partners
Mayoral Result: Lawyers 1; Old Etonians 0
Sadiq Khan nicks a goal back for the profession in centuries old battle with the privileged as to who should run country
Is a 2:1 the new 2:2 for law students?
Miss out on Oxbridge and it's increasingly a first class degree or bust if you want to make it to the bar or the magic circle
Comment is free — but it can be costly
As The Telegraph announces the suspension of online reader comments, a media lawyer explains the law below the line
Why City law firms don’t need to keep in touch with work experience students
If they want to build ties, students should show some initiative and send an email
Katie Hopkins writes an article on the European Union — and gets the law horribly wrong
Errors that would make a first year law student blush
Britain’s legal system can’t ‘trump’ Brussels — and Boris Johnson is wrong to pretend otherwise
Tory buffoon needs to brush up on his EU law
Lord Sumption’s take on ethnic diversity is as disappointing as his approach to gender
Supreme Court judge's recent remarks on women judges make his past diversity pronouncements -- which have been highlighted to defend his current stance on gender -- worth revisiting
The Judge Rules: Charlotte Proudman should never have let herself become the story
A cannier operator would have exposed 'sexist' message while keeping her identity hidden
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