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The plight of the paralegal explained through memes

She dreamed of para para ... paralegaldise?

Oct 3 2014 9:51am

Addleshaw latest firm to release trainee retention figures — hitting 82%

National player retains marginally more autumn qualifiers than most rivals in further sign of tentative graduate recruitment market recovery

Oct 3 2014 9:31am

Morning round-up: Friday 3 October

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Oct 3 2014 8:07am

Legal pic of the day

Hunger games

Oct 2 2014 4:43pm

The 9 best humble-brags from lawyers as latest Legal 500 directory hits streets

A sure as night follows day, solicitors, barristers and law firms greet the release of the latest league table with the odd dollop of false humility

Oct 2 2014 12:34pm

Sir John Walsh of Branagh’s CV may be even more spectacular than Lord Harley of Counsel’s

Aussie barrister in challenge to Lancashire solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker (aka Lord Harley of Counsel) for crown of best CV on the internet

Oct 2 2014 9:26am

Morning round-up: Thursday 2 October

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Oct 2 2014 8:08am

Legal pic of the day

Dust off the fancy dress and say a prayer for, er, Chris Grayling

Oct 1 2014 3:43pm

Are Amal and George just as shameless as Kim and Kanye? Probably

Your Barrister Boyfriend co-creator Natalia Naish is faintly repulsed at the Amal Alammudin-George Clooney wedding

Oct 1 2014 12:47pm

Small law firm somehow persuades very successful rapper to do voiceover on its advert

Rapper and No Limit Records boss Master P lends a hand to promote small US law firm with “UGHH” catchphrase

Oct 1 2014 10:25am

It looks like the drunken Kent Uni fresher who got stuck up a tree may have been a law student

Did booze-fuelled tree farce begin after unsuccessful attempt by student to use LLB credentials to gain access to Freshers Ball?

Oct 1 2014 9:14am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 1 October

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Oct 1 2014 8:02am

Legal pic of the day

"Laws are like sausages"

Sep 30 2014 4:16pm

Keira Knightley clearly doesn’t realise how hard it is to get a training contract or pupillage

Actress says she'd advise her daughter to be a lawyer to avoid the "heartbreaking rejection" of life as an actor. Hmmm...

Sep 30 2014 1:30pm

Wannabe barrister takes break from BPTC to reflect on his job as an Ann Summers sex toy salesman

Has flamboyant TV barrister ‘Judge Rinder’ widened frame of reference for bar hopefuls seeking to stand out from the crowd?

Sep 30 2014 9:21am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 30 September

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Sep 30 2014 8:04am

Legal pic of the day

Happy National Coffee Day!

Sep 29 2014 4:42pm

Instagram’s legal team seems to have been trolled

Lawyers at social network reported to have sent cease and desist letter to slutsofinstagram.com — and then discovered the site wasn’t what they thought it was

Sep 29 2014 10:51am

Research: lawyers viewed as warmly as sex workers‏

A mind boggling Venn diagram shows that the legal profession and the oldest profession are despised equally

Sep 29 2014 9:34am

Doughty Street barrister marries celeb to create global ‘Alamooney’ brand

Best of the legal profession reaction as Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney pool their powers

Sep 29 2014 8:55am

Morning round-up: Monday 29 September

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Sep 29 2014 7:59am