Category: News

Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City law firm

Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner....

Sep 9 2013 11:46am

Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter

Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of...

Sep 9 2013 9:10am

Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts

Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about...

Sep 6 2013 10:54am

‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’

Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of...

Sep 6 2013 9:35am

The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas

A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...

Sep 5 2013 2:04pm

How to survive the first terrifying weeks as a newly qualified solicitor

You never forget your first. Your pulse rockets, your stomach turns over uncomfortably and your...

Sep 5 2013 9:47am

‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral

Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...

Sep 4 2013 1:23pm

BPP sends LPC transcripts and record cards to the wrong students

Exclusive: BPP Law School students are raging after a breakdown of their Legal Practice Course...

Sep 4 2013 9:08am

The perils of representing yourself in court as a barrister

Salford-based barrister Andrew Rosmarine has given a demonstration of how representing yourself in court can...

Sep 3 2013 9:20am

Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit bottoms

A Crown Court judge sent a criminal to the cells for nearly three hours because...

Sep 2 2013 10:40am

Video: Judge punches judge in Mexican courtroom brawl

A senior Mexican judge is facing possible impeachment after he attacked fellow judges during a...

Sep 2 2013 8:23am

‘Many, particularly in their early careers, seek to disguise themselves as lawyers’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

Aug 30 2013 12:16pm

Video of Allen & Overy partner reading hardcore porn out loud in Deidre Dare sexual harassment case placed on YouTube

A video of former Allen & Overy partner Tony Humphrey reading hard core porn out...

Aug 30 2013 8:57am

Dalston law firm’s website is so awful that it’s ironically extremely cool

If this man were to continue walking down the road in east London hipster enclave...

Aug 29 2013 12:33pm

On the menu: lawyers

Yesterday food blog Accidental Flatlander posted a photo that will chill the blood of solicitors...

Aug 29 2013 8:56am

‘F*ck you!’ — ‘that’s 300 days!’: Judge keeps upping insolent defendant’s contempt of court sentence as insults spew forth

A furious US judge increased a defendant’s contempt of court sentence seven times as she...

Aug 28 2013 2:04pm

The 10 best vac scheme selfies of the summer

Following the popularity of the ‘The 15 best mini-pupil selfies of the summer’, we returned...

Aug 28 2013 9:29am

Law firm pens are officially everywhere

Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...

Aug 27 2013 1:20pm

UK legal education system given unlikely boost by Obama

The messy postgraduate route to qualifying as a lawyer in England and Wales comes in...

Aug 27 2013 8:55am

11 of the most amusing ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ posts

Since launching just three months ago, the Facebook page ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ has...

Aug 22 2013 9:03am

Which of these loathsome politicians, sponging royals and inconsequential celebs are honorary Inns of Court benchers?

Seven of these famous figures are Inns of Court benchers, the other seven aren’t. Can...

Aug 21 2013 10:34am