Tag: Barristers

The best law-related summer frippery

Legal Cheek Twitter hash tag generates rush of proud responses from those who pissed about at school but still became lawyers

Bar Standards Board refuses to provide details, but says single case has distorted internal conduct figures

Bar Council in possible U-turn over centralised application switch

Plucky east Londoner needs £12,000 to do bar course

It’s solicitor v barrister in fight for coveted Law Society gong

First Jonathan Sumption QC laid into law degrees, now he’s criticising qualified lawyers for being narrow minded

Barristers uses misunderstanding to his advantage

Age-old tradition of drunken bread roll fights looks set to be pensioned off as it's not sufficiently educational

Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards

20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter

Inspired by global social media sensation “Humans of New York”, two Legal Cheek work experience students have set up a legal profession version

With the courts closed and the legal profession in holiday mode, what better opportunity to do lots of pointless presentations?

Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back

Bar Council tweet highlights a new set of Hobbit-sized lawyers

Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL

What appears to be court stenographer’s note appears online

Marketing managers -- donchya just love ‘em. Especially po-faced examples in the legal profession

The latest social media craze is all about law and films

Lawyer accepting a dangerous midnight “backie” last week also happens to be BoJo’s wife

Incendiary remarks could divide profession as barristers head to picket lines today in support of solicitors' battle against MoJ rate cuts