Tag: Barristers
Social media giggles as national newspaper describes lawyer as ‘a full QC’
The next ‘top barrister’?
A Latham & Watkins lawyer is standing for UKIP in the general election
Tim Page is counsel at the US giant’s London office
Emotions run high in Middle Temple Hall as barristers star alongside actors in touching play about life on death row
Two of the cast members had been sentenced to death themselves
Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms -- but not always in Britain
More people want to date lawyers than any other profession
Two have been named most-wanted singles in London
New court drama hoping to show viewers the ‘inner workings of the justice system’ will star real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
The Trial: A Murder in the Family will air on Channel 4 later this month
Top lawyers clash over whether we should have a written constitution
Is now the UK’s ‘constitutional moment’?
Language of the law decoded: The litigation edition
The revered Wigapedia returns to Legal Cheek for his 2017 jargon buster
The Legal Cheek Barrister Survey 2017
How happy are you with your lot, chambers-dwellers?
Clifford Chance to fund community law graduate scheme likened to Teach First
Youth advocates will help protect the legal rights of vulnerable children
City University BPTC grad who stole cash from colleagues’ bags BARRED from legal profession
Mahnoor Choudhury was working as a paralegal at the time
Law students and rookie lawyers set to vote Lib Dem on 8 June
Legal Cheek snap election survey reveals Labour are out of favour
Diversity isn’t working, says Somali refugee who beat odds to become a barrister
Hashi Mohamed was raised exclusively on state benefits, and he believes open recruitment has made ‘little if any difference’
Aspiring barrister denied an Inner Temple scholarship raises BPTC funds (and more) after ‘mystery person’ donates £12,500
Leila Taleb starred in a new BBC programme about her law school plans
First non-white Old Bailey judge was told to ‘try hairdressing instead’
Judge Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC also recalls being mistaken for a defendant when she was at the bar
‘Pink Floyd’s manager tricked me into becoming a lawyer’
Why media law partner Mark Stephens has always felt like an outsider in his profession
Barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend is NOT struck off
Henry Hendron avoided jail last year
I’ve been paid! QC dismisses report claiming she is owed £200,000 following collapse of KWM
Catherine Newman QC says she received money in full despite featuring in administrators statement