Category: News

How To Face Down Dirty Tactics During a Vac Scheme

Over the weekend, ‘The Budding Lawyer’ wrote of the dirty tactics he had fallen victim...

Aug 23 2012 10:30am

Law Graduate Sought For Barristers Chambers Job That Is ‘Not a Step Into Legal Work’

Amid falling training contract and pupillage numbers, these are bleak times for law graduates. Still,...

Aug 23 2012 9:20am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 23 August

Law firm agrees sponsorship deal with Leeds United – SimpsonMillar.co.uk George Galloway ‘would have made...

Aug 23 2012 8:11am

Welcome To The ‘Envy Economy’ Of City Law Firms

I spend my days in the office listening to management speak. When I’m not going...

Aug 22 2012 10:03am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 22 August

Wikileaks slams David Allen Green – Twitter Pupillage: a right or a privilege? – Legal...

Aug 22 2012 8:17am

Leap To The Other Side: Camden New Journal Music Editor On How She’s Juggling Journalism And Law

For the past two years I have been leading a double life – part music...

Aug 21 2012 1:47pm

Is It OK For Solicitors To Ask Their Secretaries To Cancel The Milk For Them?

Hearing trainee solicitors talk about “their secretary” always makes me cringe. Invariably it’s done in...

Aug 21 2012 9:06am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 21 August

Trainee’s disappointment after Magic Circle firm promised BIG LOLLY! – Voice of Reason The strong...

Aug 21 2012 8:00am

Notice To Youthful Male Barristers On Trains: Give Baroness Deech Your Seat

Offering your seat to somebody else on the train is, from my experience, as likely...

Aug 20 2012 9:34am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 20 August

Rupert Penry-Jones bares all in ‘The Last Weekend’ swimming scene – Metro Ben Emmerson QC:...

Aug 20 2012 8:00am

An Apology

Legal Cheek would like to apologise unreservedly to Natasha Powell, whose photograph we incorrectly used...

Aug 17 2012 3:48pm

Tweeting Like It’s 1984: Why Police’s Bright Idea To Ban Anonymous Bloggers Could Herald Orwellian Dystopia

Imagine a world where everything you say and write is stored indefinitely and attributable to...

Aug 17 2012 9:46am

Morning Round-Up: Friday 17 August

Apple lawyer faces ‘smoking crack’ jibe by patent judge – BBC Lawyer ordered to pay...

Aug 17 2012 7:51am

How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt

Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...

Aug 16 2012 12:16pm

Clarke Willmott Lawyers Accused Of ‘Shocking’ Omissions As Firm Pays Out £500K In Pro Neg Settlement

When paralysed motorcyclist Kenny Jordan took his case to Clarke Willmott, he would have expected...

Aug 16 2012 10:23am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 16 August

Christians who refused to let gay couple share a bedroom in their guesthouse to take...

Aug 16 2012 8:25am

The Best Law School-Themed Animated Gifs

#WhatShouldWeCallMe is a brilliant Tumblr blog run by two anonymous law students. Most of the...

Aug 15 2012 11:01am

Did Freshfields’ Olympics Sponsorship Come Out Of The Pro Bono Budget?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s sponsorship of the Olympics cost it £10 million. The firm’s most recent...

Aug 15 2012 10:03am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 15 August

Watch out for these four client comments – Bitter Lawyer Judiciary silenced out of court...

Aug 15 2012 8:55am

Finally, The Inns Of Court Are Occupied!

During the past year the light at the end of the tunnel grew so dim...

Aug 14 2012 1:05pm