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Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 19 June
Tory MP Nadine Dorries pays her BPP Law School student daughter (pictured) up to £39k...
Aston Carter Claims BPP Law School Described Its Pay-To-Be-A-Paralegal Scheme As ‘Novel And Inspiring’
Last month, Legal Cheek exclusively revealed that Aston Carter Solicitors was asking law graduates to...
6 Lawyers Honoured In Queen’s Birthday List, But Recognition For Basket Maker And Pig Guru Takes Shine Off Accolades
Two judges, a QC and the head of the Crown Prosecution Service woke up over...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 18 June
Uni student’s role in phone scam leaves law career in tatters – The Sentinel Out-of-touch...
PODCAST: Be Yourself, Not Some ‘Made In Chelsea’ Clone
With Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge on yet another foreign jolly, Bircham Dyson Bell lawyer...
City Lawyer Offers ‘Free Accommodation To An Attractive Female In Exchange For Intimacy’
There was an interesting ad placed on the London section of Craigslist, the classified ads...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 15 June
Met pays lawyer £210k for libel claim – The Independent From biglaw to boutique: you...
In-House Solicitor Makes Euro 2012 Debut
Sometimes the only way lawyers can sate their thirst for applying rules is by taking...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 14 June
Crisis deepens over legal team detained in Libya – The Guardian What laptop to get,...
City Lawyer Makes Wired Magazine’s List Of UK’s Top 100 ‘Digital Power-Brokers’
Of concern for lawyers, perhaps, is an attitude among some of the new generation of...
Conflict Of Interest? Leveson Silk Robert Jay QC Is Ed Miliband’s Wife’s Head Of Chambers
As you may or may not know, Ed Miliband’s wife, Justine Thornton, is a barrister...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 13 June
Made In Chelsea star Kimberley thought to have been axed from show for calling in...
Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis
The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that...
Another Facebook ‘Reverse Auction’ For An LPC Place Ends Instantly – With Minimal Savings For Winning Bidder
The National College of Legal Training (NCLT)’s first Facebook ‘reverse auction’, which took place last...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 12 June
Athlete seeks legal advice following Olympic omission – BBC Chinese law firms snub politician’s wife...
Law Among The Jobs Most Likely To Lead To Weight Gain, Says New Survey
The sea of pot-bellies and teams of medics waiting nervously on stand-by at last month’s...
Male Colleagues Nicknamed Me ‘Tiny Tits’, Says Ex-Clifford Chance Intern Who ‘Trained As a Lawyer In London’
Officially, City law firms are beacons of post-sexism enlightenment. In private, though, you hear all...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 11 June
Barrister admits leaving over 120 “creepy” and “sexually intimidating” messages on younger colleague’s phone –...
How To Go From Corporate Law Into Human Rights Academia
Most people don’t stay at the law firms they join as trainees all that long....
‘He Daubed The Word “Bitch” On Wall In My Garden, Which Doesn’t Seem Like Something The DPP Would Do’
The words of a former girlfriend of Paul Bint, the conman famous for posing as...