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The 10 best law student meltdowns on Vine
While lawyers have been slow to embrace iPhone app Vine, law students have seized upon...
Exeter University confirms that it was one of its professors who had his law lecture remixed
As universities return for autumn, beware, lecturers, of the smartphone-wielding student with video-editing skills. And,...
Starting pupillage: ‘So much to learn but hopefully a chance to teach a little too’
Two years after being called to the Bar, OccupyTheInns prepares to become a fully-fledged barrister...
Morning round-up: Monday 16 September
Judges must quit £3,000-a-night luxury lodgings and stay at B&Bs, as ministers seek to slash...
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,...
‘No I don’t want to take that file home this weekend, why don’t you do it Mr Head of Department?’
UCL legal academic Richard Moorhead wonders if his rocky spell in private practice would have...
Video: Clifford Chance trainee in ‘f*cking people over for money’ YouTube boast
A Clifford Chance trainee is in serious trouble after he was filmed boasting about his...
What lawyers can learn from legal dramas
As the return of hit BBC barrister series Silk nears, WaitroseLaw considers the practical lessons...
Event: If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
On the evening of Thursday 10th October six authors of posts in Legal Cheek‘s ‘If...
10 things to do before starting law school that are mostly enjoyable
Columnist and academic Professor Gary Slapper recommends ten ways for law students to grasp the bigger picture before they become mired in the detail of study
Don’t you step into my courtroom wearing blue suede trainers, judge tells lawyer
Recently we reported on the judge who sent a defendant to the cells for wearing...
Incorrect tweet forces BPP to reveal how many of its grads bagged training contracts
Lawyer2B has a piece today detailing the employment rates of the biggest Legal Practice Course...
Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday’s The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless —...
Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City law firm
Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner....
Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter
Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of...
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...
‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’
Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of...
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
How to survive the first terrifying weeks as a newly qualified solicitor
You never forget your first. Your pulse rockets, your stomach turns over uncomfortably and your...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...
BPP sends LPC transcripts and record cards to the wrong students
Exclusive: BPP Law School students are raging after a breakdown of their Legal Practice Course...