Tag: Barristers

New trade union targets overworked junior lawyers

Legal Sector Workers United wants trainees and pupils to help fight oppression and inequality

Apr 16 2019 8:35am

Exchange Chambers to double pupillage intake next year

Northern behemoth to take on six pupils in 2020

Apr 15 2019 8:59am

Why one barrister quit her job to become a successful restaurateur

Nisha Katona had been practising for 20 years

Apr 12 2019 8:44am

City lawyer whose ‘sexist’ LinkedIn message sparked media frenzy switches firms

Alexander Carter-Silk made headlines in 2015 after praising Charlotte Proudman's 'stunning' profile photo

Apr 10 2019 4:29pm

Doughty Street’s Amal Clooney lands UK foreign office role

Human rights barrister appointed media freedom envoy

Apr 10 2019 9:08am

Sexism from judges exaggerated, says Lord Chief Justice

Small number of examples give 'false impression'

Apr 4 2019 10:19am
Barristers, Solicitors, students

Be prepared to forge your own path to legal practice

A panel of lawyers reveal their unconventional routes into law

Apr 3 2019 2:48pm

Six bar big hitters to speak at Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019

Dedicated barrister session to feature practitioners from Hardwicke and Cornerstone, alongside BPTC heads, academics and Inns' director

Apr 3 2019 12:25pm

It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system

Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers

Mar 27 2019 11:51am

Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’

Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners

Mar 27 2019 11:03am

Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’

Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister

Mar 26 2019 4:02pm

Litigant in person throws White Book at barrister

Lawyer lent self-representing claimant practitioners' text at judge's request

Mar 25 2019 10:53am

Jailed paedophile barrister removed from legal profession

John Guess was a lawyer for the Welsh government

Mar 22 2019 10:18am