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Morning round-up: Monday 7 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
What magic circle trainees earned in 1988
When adjusted to take into account inflation, £11,000-a-year Clifford Chance trainee salary equates to just £24,988 today.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Morning round-up: Monday 31 March
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Lawyers at Bar National Mock Trial Competition urge students to look beyond criminal Bar
Citizenship Foundation's Bar Mock Trial final sees Northern Ireland's Aquinas Grammar School win national junior advocacy crown. But assembled top lawyers warn wannabes of plight of criminal Bar, and encourage them to explore other areas.
‘Teaching is the most important thing I’ve done to improve my work as a lawyer’
When his bid to work himself up from the bottom of a supermarket chain stalled, Laurie Anstis decided to reconsider his early views on university education and pursue a career as a solicitor.
‘I’ve often gone hungry and can’t afford a wig, gown or practitioner textbooks,’ admits pupil barrister
Baby barrister at civil legal aid set tells of bleak pupillage existence.
More than a slap-on-the-wrist: MoJ criticised for its barrister earnings stats
UK Statistics Authority issues blow to Ministry of Justice.
9 reasons why Britain’s top divorce lawyer is set to have Britain’s top wedding
Self-styled "Britain's top divorce lawyer" Ayesha Vardag has unveiled a new blog to disseminate information about her forthcoming nuptials to her colleague, Stephen Bence. Readers are left in no doubt of Vardag's commitment to attaining excellence in all things.
This IP lawyer’s footnoted rap video could be the best thing on the internet
US intellectual property lawyer Eric Mirabel — aka legal rapper E.P.M. — has released a new version of his paean to IP. It's amazing.
Solicitor’s forging of colleagues’ signatures as a trainee comes back to haunt her
Katherine Edwards' legal career is over after "moment of madness" during her training contract.
10 pieces of advice for trainee City lawyers from Mumsnet readers
A Mumsnet thread offering advice to a prospective City lawyer contains some illuminating titbits of information.
Day of action: ‘My uni mates went to magic circle firms, I chose the criminal Bar’
23 Essex Street junior Vicky Gainza finds the Crown Prosecution Service's threat to withhold work from striking barristers scary — but not as scary as the alternative of doing nothing to prevent the government's legal aid cuts.
8 reasons why wannabe lawyers shouldn’t go to uni
As increasing numbers of top law firms introduce apprenticeship programmes, we consider the arguments in favour of entering the legal profession straight from school.
I was rejected for a training contract by the firm where I became a partner
Having begun his career in the 90s recession, Mayer Brown head of banking and finance Dominic Griffiths has plenty of sympathy with those applying for training contracts today.
How it went wrong between media lawyer Mark Stephens and his former client Julian Assange
Julian Assange's ghostwriter has given some juicy insights into the deterioration of the Wikileaks founder's relationship with star media solicitor Mark Stephens.
Immigration solicitors on naughty step as 4 law firms receive High Court rebuke
A vintage few months for judicial spankings has yielded yet another lawyer takedown — and...
QC list 2014: Big jump in ethnic minority silks, but why so few women still?
Solicitor-advocate numbers up sharply too, but most new appointments are white male barristers.
‘Not everyone who drops sh*t on you is your enemy’
During a journey from academia to management retiring University of Law president Nigel Savage accumulated a few basic rules.
Who’s been a naughty boy?
Following White & Case's recent removal from an oligarch dispute for a conflict of interest, WaitroseLaw reflects on a past few months packed with judicial spankings.
A legal dictionary for the up-and-coming professional: part two
Wigapedia returns with the second part of his glossary of key legal terms used in practice.