Tag: Blogs
Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers
We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...
‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’
After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...
‘A golden opportunity to promote the cause of talent has been missed’
In not distinguishing between graduates of Russell Group and non-traditional universities, the Legal Education and...
‘Don’t sweat the small stuff, do sweat the big stuff – and learn to tell the difference’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Legal typos: 7 absolute howlers
Oh how we clinical negligence practitioners laughed when a pfannenstiel incision — which is a...
How I became a tech start-up lawyer
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘Journalists probably deal with more law than anyone else – including lawyers’
25 years ago I thought I had left the law behind, writes media law consultant...
Why do wannabe barristers have to accept their BPTC place before they know if they’ve got an Inns scholarship?
The conventional wisdom is that students are unwise to do the Bar Professional Training Course...
10 of the best Lord Justice Ward lines
Last month, retiring Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Ward used his penultimate judgment to...
‘Never be too rigid in your thinking’
My careers guidance went something like this, writes Silverman Sherliker partner Jennie Kreser in the...
‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’
The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...
Legal Tumblrs: Because lawyers can do LOLcats too
Tumblr, the home of the animated gif and the LOLcat, is suddenly everywhere following its...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom
A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...
Five terrible comedy law student videos
As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...
How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day
Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...
‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...
You Have To Go All The Way With The GDL – But An LLB Gives You Options
When I was 16, I received my GCSE results and discovered that I had got...