Category: News

‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’

After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...

Sep 27 2013 9:38am

Morning round-up: Friday 27 September

The tricky matter of tweeting that Legal500 ranking: does one opt for a humblebrag or...

Sep 27 2013 8:27am

End of the day round-up

David Allen Green: “Whether someone brandishing a sword whilst wearing a blindfold is an appropriate...

Sep 26 2013 4:04pm

Corporate lawyer who released rap about securing first job returns with personal life-themed R&B follow-up

Last year Mike Lickver celebrated getting a foot on the ladder at a top Canadian...

Sep 26 2013 1:17pm

Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week

It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually...

Sep 26 2013 9:45am

Morning round-up: Thursday 26 September

Who owns the moon? Time to call in the “space lawyers” [The Telegraph] Chris Grayling:...

Sep 26 2013 8:14am

End of the day round-up

“Uh oh *Chris Grayling plans for “dealing with the ECHR” klaxon*” [@AdamWagner1 on Twitter] Hackers...

Sep 25 2013 4:53pm

Law student told he can’t board EasyJet flight after slamming airline on Twitter

A Strathclyde University PhD law student has sparked a PR nightmare for easyJet after a...

Sep 25 2013 12:38pm

The legal profession’s first tweets

It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...

Sep 25 2013 9:48am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 25 September

Michael Mansfield QC told off for being “much too combative and much too aggressive” after...

Sep 25 2013 8:20am

End of the day round-up

Raccoon disrupts US courtroom [Sun Herald] Former Law Society Council member attacked her elderly parents...

Sep 24 2013 4:17pm

Podcast: ‘Should I call off my hunt for a training contract?’

A year after finishing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Queen Mary University of London...

Sep 24 2013 1:27pm

Starting law school #Pippatips

The BPP Law School Twitter account has spent the last week tweeting some of the...

Sep 24 2013 9:37am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 24 September

Escaping armed robber is stopped by court reporter’s rugby tackle after leaping from the dock...

Sep 24 2013 8:14am

End of the day round-up

Barrister: “I can categorically confirm that Chris Grayling has never done a mini-pupillage with me”...

Sep 23 2013 4:48pm

Tooks Chambers to be dissolved

After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures,...

Sep 23 2013 1:11pm

There is a real lawyer called Saul Goodman!

Saul Goodman, the famously dodgy criminal lawyer in hit TV series Breaking Bad, has a...

Sep 23 2013 12:20pm

Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?

A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice...

Sep 23 2013 8:40am

Morning round-up: Monday 23 September

Judge jails man for seven days for taking picture in court on his phone [Yorkshire...

Sep 23 2013 8:02am

‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’

In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...

Sep 20 2013 11:03am

‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’

In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...

Sep 20 2013 11:03am