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‘IT’S TIME TO OCCUPY THE INNS OF COURT’

Follow @OccupyTheInns Jobless law graduates should follow the St Paul’s protesters’ example, argues OccupyTheInns As...

Nov 16 2011 3:49pm

THE OLD BOYS’ CLUB’S OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Follow @debbiematthews1 Women are rarely welcomed into judges’ chambers for cosy post-case chats, says Deborah...

Nov 16 2011 10:28am

TOP 5 iPHONE APPS FOR LAW STUDENTS

Follow @dietjustice Diet Justice reviews some of the best iPhone Apps for lawyers-to-be I now...

Nov 15 2011 3:03pm

DO WE HAVE TO CALL IT ‘DIVERSITY’?

Follow @legalaware Ambiguous term is stunting debate, says LegalAware The word ‘diversity’ is an unhelpful...

Nov 15 2011 10:19am

LEGAL BODY IN FRESH ONLINE BLUNDER

Follow @pondcat First, the bar’s awful ‘Pupillage Portal’; now the solicitors’ regulator has run into...

Nov 14 2011 4:01pm

IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THE BLOGGERS, JOIN THEM

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Continuing snobbery towards legal blogging betrays journalists’ fear that evolving medium could do...

Nov 14 2011 10:38am

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Social mobility champion of the week @TheInnerTemple, with...

Nov 11 2011 1:36pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: LIVE (metaphorically) FROM THE CHANCERY LANE TWEETUP

Legal Cheek brought its army of sound crew and technicans along to the excellent #TweetingLegals...

Nov 11 2011 11:12am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I can’t get a training contract’

Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I finished my LPC this summer and I still don’t...

Nov 10 2011 12:54pm

‘WE SHOULD GO FOR A DRINK…’

Follow @debbiematthews1 …No we shouldn’t, thinks Deborah Matthews, continuing her tales about predatory male lawyers...

Nov 10 2011 11:06am

‘YOU HAVE TO EAT DINNER TO QUALIFY AS A BARRISTER?!’

Follow @FellowsAdam Adam Fellows explains the eccentric world of the inns of court Despite the...

Nov 10 2011 6:57am

WHO SAID ARTS DEGREES WERE EASY?

Follow @LaurenceMills My Oxford history degree was no soft option, says City trainee-to-be Laurence Mills...

Nov 9 2011 7:10am

‘THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE WERE REFERRED TO AS THE OLD BAILEY’

Follow @thomashurst Corporate lawyer Thomas Hurst didn’t rate ITV’s new drama ‘The Jury’ much On...

Nov 8 2011 9:07am

IN-HOUSE LAWYER’S SHOWDOWN WITH MURDOCH

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Former News of the World legal chief can make in-house lawyers proud in...

Nov 7 2011 10:31am

#TweetsOfTheWeek

Follow @LegalCheek Legal Cheek is watching you… Poorly disguised Twitter boast of the week (brought...

Nov 4 2011 1:53pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: PROTESTS, DISCRIMINATION AND MEMORIES OF PRINCESS DI

Civil liberties lawyer Sophie Khan has a very different take on the OccupyLondon protests to...

Nov 4 2011 10:38am

AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS

Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, My law firm, where I’m a newly qualified solicitor, is...

Nov 3 2011 2:58pm

OCCUPIED WITH THEMSELVES

Follow @TheTCHawk The OccupyLSX protesters have lost sight of their original objectives, says law graduate...

Nov 3 2011 10:33am

LEGAL CHEEK FIELD TRIP TO OCCUPY LONDON

When I got a tip-off from Kevin Poulter last Friday about a legal tent at...

Nov 2 2011 2:19pm

TAMING SEX-CRAZED MALE LAWYERS: A GUIDE

Follow @debbiematthews1 Forget complicated legal conundrums, the real problem in law firms is the men,...

Nov 2 2011 10:32am

#TwitterLawPoems: Dear @PegasusCorpInfo

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Dear @PegasusCorpInfo, You’ve #ff’d me now every Friday for 6 months or so,...

Nov 1 2011 2:29pm