Tag: Barristers

Law student brings disruption to Crufts — but at what cost?

Wannabe lawyer's antics could be a turn-off for law firms and chambers

Mar 11 2015 9:19am

Amal Clooney joins Columbia University as visiting lecturer

Doughty Street human rights barrister bags prestigious New York gig

Mar 9 2015 9:26am

Magna Carta: the rap battle

BBC children’s telly sketch team pump up the volume over ancient rights

Mar 6 2015 3:01pm

The Judge Rules: Training contracts and pupillages should be scrapped

If yet another review of legal education must be launched -- let’s hope regulators have the guts to propose something radical and meaningful

Mar 6 2015 9:08am

Maxine Peake to play Martha Costello QC-style role in new animated short film

Star of legal drama Silk is back as you've never seen her before

Mar 5 2015 12:18pm

Police raided George Galloway’s law firm last summer

Fraud squad swooped on Chambers Solicitors in July and arrested two; meanwhile, New York-based former Tory MP reveals she’s had a Gorgeous George letter

Mar 4 2015 5:33pm

Bundle rage: Lawyer hits back after top judge labels page limit rule-breakers as ‘delinquents’

To roars of support on Twitter, St John's Chambers barrister Lucy Reed slams family division chief's court document rant

Mar 3 2015 10:46am

There was a poetry slam between two barristers on Twitter yesterday

11KBW's Sean Jones QC and direct access barrister Alistair Mitchell in #lawyerlovepoetry head-to-head

Mar 2 2015 9:50am

Tory MP snubs QC darling of civil liberties bar in BBC documentary

Conservative awkward squad member Peter Bone quickly rejects invitation to Dinah Rose’s human rights event

Feb 27 2015 12:27pm

Lord Justice Leveson to brush up on Scots law as he heads north with Judge Rinder

The nation's favourite TV judges together at last

Feb 27 2015 9:10am

Amal Clooney said to be ‘dodging’ Kim Kardashian’s Doughty Street mini-pupillage plea

Leading reality telly babe desperate for legal work experience, suggest internet gossipmongers, while also claiming there's trouble in Amal-George paradise

Feb 26 2015 11:00am

Four money-bags barristers in crosshairs if Miliband’s MP earnings cap wins day

Tory Geoffrey Cox QC heads the list with his reported annual haul of more than £800k from the bar, but former Solicitor General would also be in trouble

Feb 26 2015 10:12am

Comedians stand up for legal aid at Not The Global Law Summit

Stars including Stewart Lee, Stephen K Amos and Sara Pascoe put on gig in protest against the cuts

Feb 24 2015 2:10pm

11 law-related Instagram accounts that are worth a follow

As lawyers wake up to the mobile photo-sharing network, we bring you the best legally-themed accounts

Feb 24 2015 10:02am

The bar ‘will die out’ and solicitors be replaced by paralegals, predicts top criminal barrister at Global Law Summit

As protests rage in Westminster, Tony Cross QC forecasts the end of the legal profession as we know it

Feb 23 2015 5:29pm

The BPTC could be chopped up into lots of little courses

Bar regulator pledges to "build flexibility" into Bar Professional Training Course in bid to reduce cost

Feb 23 2015 12:15pm

London Fashion Week hits Middle Temple

But not an Ede & Ravenscroft in sight

Feb 23 2015 9:45am

Criminal bar chief vows to speak up for legal aid as Global Law Summit opens amid heavy security

Tony Cross QC hits back at critics who say he should boycott Chris Grayling's law schmooze-fest

Feb 23 2015 8:47am

The fake QC scam, the City law firm and the high-flying but gullible solicitor

Exclusive Legal Cheek investigation: A mining and energy specialist solicitor, the London office of a top Canadian law firm, some posh “search” consultants and a leading legal directory may have been fooled by international fraudsters

Feb 20 2015 8:51am

Bar in cyber war with itself over bigwig support for Global Law Summit

The internet blazes with charge and counter-charge as criminal bar chief is front row in line of fire for agreeing to speak at pilloried event

Feb 19 2015 3:40pm