Tag: Barristers
To be yourself or to be someone else?
High profile Dechert partner Miriam Gonzalez urges wannabes to "fake it" to reach the top, contradicting age-old "just be yourself!" maxim. But then what?
‘I was angry and embarrassed’: Bar wannabe whose application form blooper was tweeted by a barrister hits back
A prospective barrister explains how he felt when his mistake was highlighted first on Twitter and then on Legal Cheek.
10 outrageous slurs on Chris Grayling’s appearance made during Question Time
As Chris Grayling sailed through last night's Question Time without being asked a single question about legal aid, Twitter found itself captivated by the justice secretary's face.
The encouraging bit of the disappointing #OpCotton judgment
Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal at least offered a crumb of comfort to criminal lawyers. Although not everyone is buying it.
General public flee as T-shirt clad lawyers descend on London
Not only did yesterday's London Legal Walk raise over £500,000 for legal advice charities, but it also produced a host of delightful visual moments.
Tory councillor who described herself as a ‘barrister’ despite never being called to the Bar is arrested
Law graduate was originally cleared of wrongdoing for using ‘barrister’ title, but Legal Cheek‘s identification of huge Bar Council error in investigation leads to intervention by police.
Viz imagines the future of the legal profession
Is law destined to go the way of the discount carpet industry? Viz thinks so.
#OpCotton ‘reserved’: Case so far explained through 9 memorable tweets
The judgment on the case that threatens to derail the government's legal aid cuts has been "reserved", with the judges hoping to rule within a "short space of time". Here is what has happened so far.
Barristers vent pupillage application sift pain on Twitter
Social media-loving barristers are increasingly turning to Twitter to share the tedium of graduate recruitment.
A tie for Mondays
"My dad, a lawyer, gave this to me," writes Imgur user 'Swedishish'. "He had it for years but told me he never had the courage to wear it in court."
Would you turn down pupillage at a top chambers to go travelling?
A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world.
The Mitchell decision and the breakdown of meaning
Following the recent further spate of Mitchell-related decisions, it has been determined after careful study of the ratio in each ruling that judges are simply making this stuff up as they go along.
An anatomy of Kaplan’s doomed BPTC
Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.
9 charmingly vulgar lawyer personalised number plates
Because it's important that other road users know you're a lawyer.
Kaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course
Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.
‘We are not doing a Tooks’ says Argent as it prepares to ‘merge’ with Goldsmith Chambers
Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts.
Brighton Pier Tarot reader wows barrister
First you get hit by the law schools selling their barrister dream, then the Tarot Card readers get you...
Top QC offers George Clooney 14 tips on being married to a barrister
The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin.
Barrister to stand trial accused of falsely notifying British government of Olympics nuclear attack
Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning.
Doughty Street barrister who topped ‘Bar hottie’ list gets engaged to George Clooney
Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together?
Take a deep breath and do some colouring in
An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.