Category: News

Run Grayling Run

As a gesture of goodwill, we’ve included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London...

May 2 2013 3:23pm

The strange tale of the fake legal journalist

There’s an assumption that the journalists who churn out copy on behalf of corporate-owned legal...

May 2 2013 1:28pm

The spelling and grammar shame of Apprentice contestant’s new legal brand

While Dynamo Legal founder Alex Mills has great eyebrows, the 22 year-old entrepreneur – who’s a...

May 2 2013 9:23am

TV Edwards lets paralegals go weeks after shelling out for their police station accreditation training

Exclusive: In the latest sign of how hard law firms are being hit by government...

May 1 2013 1:15pm

Newspapers’ categorisation of lawyers: a cut-out-and-keep guide

When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on...

May 1 2013 10:05am

Five terrible comedy law student videos

As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...

Apr 30 2013 9:40am

Pupillage application system fail – yet again

Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...

Apr 29 2013 11:53am

How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day

Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...

Apr 25 2013 9:59am

End of the day round-up

Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...

Apr 24 2013 5:43pm

When tweeting from a law firm Twitter account, be sure not to wish ‘death to all police’

A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly...

Apr 24 2013 2:11pm

Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre

Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...

Apr 24 2013 9:59am

Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans

Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...

Apr 23 2013 12:40pm

The College of Law has changed…

Some of the more disengaged College University of Law students may have found themselves rather...

Apr 23 2013 9:38am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 April

In the future our police, lawyers and jails will be run by G4S [New Statesman]...

Apr 23 2013 8:30am

End of the day round-up

Naked rambler Stephen Gough appears nude in court [BBC News] It’s the end of the...

Apr 22 2013 5:52pm

PR inexperience of ‘weirdly silent’ striking criminal barristers could cost them dear

The success – or otherwise – of striking criminal barristers’ campaign to prevent the dismantling...

Apr 22 2013 2:58pm

Hopes of an all-solicitor Masterchef final are dashed

There was a moment in Friday’s night’s Masterchef quarter final when it looked like Morgan...

Apr 22 2013 10:30am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 April

Newspapers name the Leveson barristers who are now an item [Google] Comment: The affair between...

Apr 22 2013 8:23am

Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories

1. Chat, date or instruct a barrister! 2. ‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that...

Apr 20 2013 9:46am

End of the day round-up

Judicial Statement: “We have been made aware that members of the Bar and solicitors have...

Apr 19 2013 5:03pm