Tag: CILEx
Yet Another No Show: The ‘Personal Reasons Beyond Their Control’ Blighting Celeb Lawyers’ Lives
“Ooh, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC will be speaking,” I thought as I read the flyer...
Are Barristers The Doctors Of The Legal Profession, And Solicitors The Nurses?
Last week there was outrage on The Student Room when a poster likened barristers to...
Getting a Pupillage Contract At Slaughter & CILEX: Report Reveals That Young People Are Ill-Informed About Careers
Young people are overconfident slackers who don’t have a clue about the real world, new...
‘Train To Be a Lawyer In Just One Year’: Too Good To Be True?
In February, I mentioned an advert for the London College of Law (not to be...
Law Grad Who Attempted To Pass Himself Off As a Barrister From His Pop Up Office In a Pub Is Jailed
Earlier this month, Legal Cheek brought you news of the strange case of Marious Pimm,...
World’s Most Famous Legal Executive Starts Law School
The self taught Chinese ‘barefoot lawyer’ Chen Guangcheng may not have followed the Chartered Institute...
‘Fake’ Barrister Used Pub As Office And Joked His Wig Was ‘Itchy’, Says Prosecution
Last week, the trial of a law graduate charged with fraud for attempting to pass...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury: ‘Impersonal’ and ‘Bureaucratic’ Legal Profession Is ‘In Crisis’
Veteran lawyers are always complaining that the profession is going to the dogs. But never...
Chartered Legal Execs Swear Rule Of Law Oath – Other Lawyers To Follow?
For the first time in English legal history, newly qualified lawyers have sworn their version...
Royal Charter Spurs Awed CILEX Lawyers To Remove Shoes: EXCLUSIVE PICS
The Royal Charter conferred recently upon law’s plucky underdogs, legal executives, carries great power, elevating...
Legal Executives’ ‘Psychology’ Is Holding Them Back
As ILEX is presented with a royal charter, it’s time for a change in mindset...