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Top QC offers Chris Grayling work experience at her chambers
5KBW’s Sarah Forshaw QC has offered non-lawyer justice secretary Chris Grayling an opportunity to gain...
Why it’s risky to dance like nobody’s watching when the court has CCTV
A police officer in Italy’s supreme court has achieved global YouTube fame after being caught...
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...
Could the legal aid reforms improve life for baby barristers?
It’s a confusing time for future legal aid barristers. On Friday a lucky few obtained...
Barrister creates two YouTube homages to himself: which one do you prefer?
YouTube is a tricky medium to get right. Still, full marks to 33 Bedford Row’s...
The worst attempt at a fraudulent personal injury claim ever?
Viral video website site Break.com released footage over the weekend of what may well be...
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...
‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was for the firm’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, former Bond Pearce solicitor...
Tooks withdraws mini-pupillage due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ — and rules out placements for 2014
In the latest sign that all is not well at Tooks Chambers, Michael Mansfield QC’s...
Tuckers senior partner says it’s ‘not my job 2 care about justice’ and that he couldn’t ‘give a flying f… about anybody else’
After David Dickinson look-a-like (and Tuckers Solicitors senior partner) Franklin Sinclair showed off his Jaguar...
How junior lawyers can survive a merger
In the wake of yesterday’s tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons —...
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...
Angel Chambers family law barrister in top bodybuilding competition win
Christina Chinnock of Angel Chambers in Swansea has scooped one of the top prizes at...
‘We would be foolish indeed to sneer at the principle of the barrister hottie’
After overcoming his initial scepticism, OccupyTheInns — who will shortly be commencing pupillage — is...
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...
Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge the unfair trial of Jesus Christ
A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to...
Barrister puts wig and gown on eBay and issues dramatic warning to Bar wannabes
A junior barrister has ended her career in dramatic style by placing her “Ede and...
‘Why, oh why, am I a barrister?’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, human rights barrister Barbara...
Hotties of the week: ‘Melting barrister’s clerk’ slams ‘boiling barrister’
This week has seen not only the return of the “Barrister Hottie Experts”, but a...
Think a pregnancy monitored by the world’s media is stressful? Try starting a family at a City law firm…
“Many law firms seem to take the attitude that once you’ve got a bun in...
A wannabe lawyer’s social media strategy to land a job through the showcasing of his buff physique
Want to make yourself stand out from the crowd of other jobless lawyers? Well, you...