Tag: Barristers

What I learned as an undergraduate law student attending the Kings Chambers mini-pupillage fair
Legal Cheek Manchester Met campus ambassador May Alavi found the Bar to be different in some crucial respects to popular stereotypes

Research: Bullying rife at criminal bar; less common among commercial barristers
Reported observations of harassment soar across newly-woke bar

The Hearing Podcast: The difficult transition from law to politics
QC turned Home Secretary Lord Michael Howard shares his story

Why specialise when you could do it all?
Being a generalist helps to develop your advocacy skills, argues Serjeants’ Inn’s Angus Moon QC

From South East London to Durham Uni and then the Bar and beyond
Legal Cheek Careers meets National Director of ULaw’s BPTC Jaqueline Cheltenham

Legal Cheek launches new iPhone app with graduate recruitment deadline alerts
Free and easy-to-use future lawyer essential

Exclusive: Government’s favourite silk Sir James Eadie QC pulls out of controversial work experience auction
Offer to sell work experience to the highest bidder in the name of social mobility pulled after Legal Cheek asks questions -- but other lawyers stick with online auction

Barrister training overhaul could be approved by January
BSB's director general discusses split-BPTC plans at Legal Cheek legal education conference

Pupillage award minimum to jump by as much as 40%
BSB brings rookie pay in line with living wage

Criminal barristers to vote on £15 million legal aid offer
Protest escalation suspended last week following 'breakthrough' talks with government

Pro no-no: Two thirds of criminal barristers work at least a day a week unpaid
And they say it's because solicitors are doing less work, new report suggests

HMCTS hits back at claims a criminal barrister’s high heels were confiscated by court staff for being ‘too spiky’
Lawyer said colleague had to do hearing in bare feet

Solicitor super-exam takes centre stage as legal education and training thought leaders debate future of profession
Technology, innovation, barrister training and apprenticeships thrust into spotlight

Bar suspends legal aid protest escalation following £15 million government offer
Barristers will continue to refuse new publicly-funded cases

Barrister protest latest: Legal secretary conducts sentencing hearing because barrister couldn’t be found
Impact of action laid bare before MPs

There’s an incredible new Twitter account combining law and RuPaul’s Drag Race
Who knew American drag queens were such experts on the BPTC?

Event: How to make it as a barrister
With Cornerstone, Hardwicke, Radcliffe, Serjeants’ Inn, LPC Law and ULaw

Suspended chemsex barrister sells £4,000 ‘legal advice for life’ on Facebook
Exclusive: Henry Hendron prepares for bar return

Durham Law School teams up with BARBRI to offer New York and California bar course
Exclusive: New students to start in September