Tag: Barristers

A guide to determining which type of fat cat lawyer the Daily Mail thinks you are

Blackfriars Chambers criminal barrister John Mack has created this useful cut-out-and-keep guide (click on image...

Oct 14 2013 9:26am

Three lawyers feature in The Independent’s ‘Pink List’ 2013

The legal profession is healthily represented in this year’s ‘Pink List’, with three of its...

Oct 14 2013 8:32am

‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’

Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...

Oct 11 2013 11:04am

If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus

This evening’s event is fully booked — but any returns will be available on the...

Oct 10 2013 1:29pm

The 16 most amusing Queen’s Counsel cartoons ever

As The Times’ Queen’s Counsel cartoon turns 20 — and marks its anniversary with a...

Oct 10 2013 10:27am

‘Barrister Hottie Experts’ crash Young Bar Anniversary Dinner

On Friday evening the “Barrister Hottie Experts” behind Tumblr sensation Your Barrister Boyfriend defied the...

Oct 7 2013 9:32am

‘Courtroom anarchy’ barrister who was slammed by Lord Judge hits back with disputed facts claim

Tooks barrister Lawrence McNulty has responded to the outgoing Lord Chief Justice’s strongly-worded criticism of...

Oct 7 2013 8:28am

‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’

Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...

Oct 4 2013 11:27am

‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’

Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...

Oct 4 2013 11:27am

Exclusive interview: Founder of Facebook sensation ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ reveals all (apart from his identity)

If the Midlands-based LLB student behind ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ was to mobilise the...

Oct 3 2013 11:39am

The first day of the legal year: as documented via the smartphones of the nation’s top lawyers

Yesterday was, of course, the first day of the legal year. As is tradition, the...

Oct 2 2013 9:07am

Barrister crosses that not-so-fine line between ‘fearless advocacy’ and ‘courtroom anarchy’

The juicy content of the final Court of Appeal judgment of outgoing Lord Chief Justice...

Oct 1 2013 1:12pm

‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’

After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...

Sep 27 2013 9:38am

Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week

It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually...

Sep 26 2013 9:45am

The legal profession’s first tweets

It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...

Sep 25 2013 9:48am

Tooks Chambers to be dissolved

After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures,...

Sep 23 2013 1:11pm

Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?

A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice...

Sep 23 2013 8:40am

‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’

In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...

Sep 20 2013 11:03am

‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’

In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...

Sep 20 2013 11:03am

Does the way that lawyers are encouraged to think and work make them vulnerable to depression?

A high stress job combined with a temperamental inclination to analyse and pick apart can...

Sep 19 2013 9:17am

Pupillage-less BPTC grad among the ‘25 most influential Londoners aged under 25′

There’s no doubt that Gabrielle Turnquest‘s achievement in becoming the youngest person to be called...

Sep 18 2013 9:16am