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Harlem Shake Reaches The Legal Profession – But Which British Lawyers Will Be First To Embrace Craze?
If you’re not familiar with the ‘Harlem Shake’, fear not: all you really need to...
Bar Course Aptitude Test Will Cost More Than Double What Wannabe Barristers Had Been Told To Expect
Barrister hopefuls had been told that the new Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) would cost...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 20 February
US court delays execution of mentally disabled man Warren Hill [The Telegraph] Ten reasons why...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Britney Spears is dating a legal researcher called David [TMZ] Contrary to reports, the CPS...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Tired of being confused with the popular electronic goods retailer, LG changes its name back...
Hot Law Students Fuel Valentine’s Spike In University ‘Spotted’ Facebook Posts
Recently a wave of university-wide “Spotted” pages have appeared on Facebook – enabling students to comment...
Analysed: The Poor Posture And ‘Smug Smile’ Of Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger
Yesterday, hidden away at the bottom of Joshua Rozenberg’s article in The Guardian about judges’...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 14 February
Fear of more casualties in the legal sector [Manchester Evening News] How law nerds will...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Widening north-south divide applies to legal education too as Co-op Legal sends its trainees to...
Is A 2:2 A Kiss Of Death For Wannabe Lawyers?
Anthony Lyons is a charming, intelligent part-time LPC student who works as a paralegal at...
Has There Ever Been A More Unlikely Legal Conference Attendee Than Busta Rhymes?
News came through overnight on Twitter that rapper Busta Rhymes closed yesterday’s American Association For...
Goodbye Solicitor And Barrister, Hello ‘Legal Process Analyst’ – Review: ‘Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ By Richard Susskind
As you’d expect, the inquiries Professor Richard Susskind encourages legal hopefuls to make in the ‘Questions...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 13 February
High Court Judge who jumped red light fined £5,000 for trying to “overwhelm” court with...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Baroness Hale and Lady Justice Hallett make ‘The Power List 2013’ [BBC Radio 4 Woman’s...
‘There’s a rich vein of humour which runs through the profession’
Back when I chose to be a barrister I really didn’t know a great deal...
Is Legal Consultant-Speak Eating Itself?
“No-sourcing”, explains legal futurologist Professor Richard Susskind in his new book Tomorrow’s Lawyers, is “the...
‘I Wish I’d Known That I’d Eventually Get A Training Contract’
In the latest instalment of the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘You Wouldn’t Behave Like That In Court’: Barrister MP Told Off For Heckling Ed Miliband At PMQs
At yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, criminal barrister-turned-MP Michael Ellis heckled Ed Miliband so loudly that...
Lord Neuberger’s Judicial Assistant Lifts The Lid On Supreme Court Life
Amid the glow of the UK Supreme Court’s psychedelic carpets (the work of Sgt Pepper’s...
What Supreme Court Justices Read In Their Spare Time…
Encouraging to see Private Eye making an appearance in the UK Supreme Court Justices’ library....
‘I had no idea how important law was while I was studying it in individual slabs’
If I knew then what I know now, I’d have been keener to study law. At school I’d wanted to study history at university and only ended up reading law after an unforeseen episode, writes Gary Slapper