Category: News
‘If I had known what strange paths life can take you down, I would have been far less depressed at my prospects’
Does it really matter if you don’t know what to do with your life? Perhaps...
‘Don’t giggle’ and Don’t ‘show cleavage’: Clifford Chance female presentation tips email causes outrage
A memo providing gender-specific advice on public speaking has caused anger among female Clifford Chance...
Pupillage-less Bar grad who used ‘barrister’ title to commit massive fraud is struck off
A Bar graduate who failed to secure pupillage has been stripped of the right to...
Morning round-up: Friday 25 October
Ambitious defence of the week: £40,000 worth of cannabis grown in Littledean home “was for...
End of the day round-up
Did the BBC breach copyright by “stealing chunks” of Alex Ferguson’s book? [The IPKat] BBC...
Procrastination: a jaded solicitors’ guide
Once the sheer relief of having a job in a shrinking market has worn off,...
The 19 stages of the BPTC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...
Morning round-up: Thursday 24 October
Barristers wrestle defendant to ground after he escapes from dock at Teeside Crown Court [The...
End of the day round-up
Televising the courts: the time has come [The Guardian] 5 ways to call in sick...
How to broadcast your status as a free legal work champion to the nation’s road users
This personalised number plate — photographed last week by Alex Altman — doesn’t, somehow, seem...
Law student YouTube sensations mock Snapchat addiction of fellow legal hopefuls
The law students behind the viral parody of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines have made a...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 October
12 ridiculous and outdated British laws that still exist [Buzzfeed] Law in Action: Chemical weapons...
End of the day round-up
Legal experts urge us to compose final “tweet” to go out after we’re dead [Mail...
Wannabe lawyer places photo of his penis online in protest at ‘tidal wave of social media firings’
Over the summer US law graduate Brian Zulberti achieved international fame after posting a bizarre,...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 October
A “legal assault” threatening the armed forces? Nonsense [The Guardian] From self-driving cars to man-made...
End of the day round-up
Devout Christian to mount landmark legal case for right to have Sundays off work [The...
14 berserk Mail Online comments about Judge Peter Bowers following his decision not to jail a sex offender
Last year Crown Court Judge Peter Bowers caused outrage by stating that burglary required courage....
Could competing in a beauty contest help you bag a training contract?
A Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduate who has reached the finals of Miss Great Britain...
Morning round-up: Monday 21 October
Tory MP says he felt zero hours contract pain…as a £250-an-hour barrister [The Mirror] Cherie...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. A guide to determining which type of fat cat lawyer the Daily Mail thinks...
End of the day round-up
“Slow, ignorant” lawyers charge by the hour to inflate bills, says Lord Neuberger [Evening Standard]...