Category: News
Criminal Justice Guru Mervyn Barrett OBE Certainly Has a Lot Of Twitter Followers…
Mervyn Barrett OBE, who is running to be police and crime commissioner in Lincolnshire, has...
TRENDS: Clients Demand ‘Themed Dances’ As Competition Hots Up In Recession Hit Legal Services Market
Solicitors have been offering additional extras for a while now as they bid to ‘add...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 18 July
Judge orders schnapps for alcoholic witness to help to spur his memory during murder trial...
COMPETITION: 2,000 Words On Legal Education Wins £500, 500 Words Wins a Matching Cap And T-Shirt Set…
The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society (JLD) has launched an essay competition for...
Hero Barrister Thwarts Drug Dealer’s Courtroom Escape Bid
It was just another morning in court. Peter Hampton, a barrister at Broadway House Chambers,...
Get a Training Contract Or Get Deported: The Fate Of The Foreign Law Graduate In The UK
If, like me, you’re not British or European and are applying for training contracts, you...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 17 July
Judge watched porn on courthouse computer, investigation alleges – Chicago Sun Times (via Above the...
Is It OK For Barristers To Call Their Client a ‘Slag’?
This morning, I tweeted a story about a barrister who’d described his client as a...
Blackmail, Inappropriate Touching And Assault, Amongst Some Other Offences: Annual Judicial Roll Of Shame Released
Most of the 79 members of the judiciary disciplined for misconduct last year were magistrates,...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 16 July
Lawyer fined for licking 21-year-old female client’s ear – Mail Online Woman accused of plotting...
Norton Rose Lawyer Scoops OPEC Lobbyist Of The Year Award For ‘Hard Work In Advancing Saudi Censorship Tactics’
At Legal Cheek, we love awards. The Lawyer Awards, the British Legal Awards, the FT...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 13 July
57.5% of Linklaters associates were privately educated, research reveals – Legal Week Solicitor flips plane...
A Neat Solution To The Legal Education And Training Puzzle
At the end of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium yesterday, I got...
Bar Social Mobility Week: Northerners Need Not Apply
This week is Bar social mobility placement week, with 69 high-achieving students from low-performing state...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 12 July
‘Aspiring’ law student claims reputational damage from leaked lingerie photos – Above the Law Matthew...
‘If At First You Don’t Succeed, Just Give Up’
Accepting you’re not going to get a pupillage can take more courage than blindly persisting...
Plan B: If You Can’t Get a TC Or Pupillage, Become An Entrepreneur
The BBC’s Paul ‘I’ve-lived-in-London-for-20-years-but-still-speak-like-a-miner’ Mason is pessimistic about the future of conventional graduate jobs. “The...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 11 July
Why I don’t play games with law students – Bitter Lawyer Tom Cruise’s lawyers in...
‘Way Too Busy For Sex’ Mariella Frostrup Publicly Laments Solicitor Husband’s Bedroom Demands
Doubtless marriage to a celebrity has its charms. On hanging out with wife Mariella Frostrup’s...
GDL Route ‘Made Me a Damn Sight More Rounded Than If I Had Read An LLB’
OccupyTheInns backs Lord Sumption’s recent pro-GDL comments, and draws paralells between drug shame pupil Henry...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 10 July
Jailed corporate lawyer sues after being told he can’t order jigsaw puzzles because pieces could...