Tag: Graduates
JOB ALERT: Criminal Paralegal
Ed note: This is the first in a regular series of job alerts we’ll be...
Entry To The Bar: ‘Let The Cream Rise To The Top’
OccupyTheInns disagrees with the call made by Mr Justice Burton at Saturday’s Young Bar Conference...
Law Graduate Launches Online Begging Campaign To Save Him From Living With His Parents Until He’s 40
In Britain, law graduates who have failed to secure jobs as solicitors/barristers either toil away...
Fleein’ To The…Aegean? Graduate Job Strategy Of The Week
Spotted over the weekend on thestudentroom.co.uk… “Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows how...
What Is It With Law Graduates And The Urge To Steal From John Lewis?
An LPC graduate has admitted stealing from John Lewis via a fake refund scam, just...
Plan B: If You Can’t Get a TC Or Pupillage, Become An Entrepreneur
The BBC’s Paul ‘I’ve-lived-in-London-for-20-years-but-still-speak-like-a-miner’ Mason is pessimistic about the future of conventional graduate jobs. “The...
PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)
Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...
Dismissed: Wannabe Barrister’s Claim That Minimum Pupillage Award Is Discriminatory To Black Africans
Like many Bar graduates, John Iteshi couldn’t get a pupillage – or even an interview...
Jobless Law Graduate Releases YouTube Ballad
How tragic unemployment is. And what terrible things it can do to people, especially the...
The Worst Training Contract Pitch Ever?
“It took me five years to finish that law degree, thanks to rugby,” British Lions...
Killing Time In Pre-Pupillage Purgatory
Pupillage-less prospective barrister Jack Smith is wary of forking out yet more cash on a...
William Hague’s Ex-Advisor Christopher Myers Bags DLA Piper Training Contract
Christopher Myers, who in 2010 was forced to resign as special advisor to married foreign...
REVEALED: £30K Buys a TC, £9K a Paralegal Post
Earlier this month, Jonathan Fagan, managing director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, received an email from...
Bar Should Be Restricted To Russell Group Graduates
Why incur the cost and hassle of an aptitude test to limit entry onto the...
‘Fun And Freewheeling Parties’: Law Firm’s New Grad Recruitment Strategy
Specialist litigation firm Quinn Emanuel, whose London office has been prominent on the wave of...
Fashion Law: It’s Booming, Darling
Jobless LPC students and law graduates, have you considered fashion law? Suddenly, everyone seems to...
The Sun Launches X-Factor-Style Law School and Training Contract Competition
In a move that some may view as a sign of the legal profession going...
Pupillage In The Provinces? Thanks, But No Thanks
London-based pupillage hunter OccupyTheInns thinks taking a position in the regions could be a bad...
Has Training Contract Gloom Become Self-Reinforcing?
The atmosphere of negativity in the legal profession towards graduate recruitment is getting out of...
Should Law Schools Refund Students if They Can’t Get a Job?
In a move that may interest jobless British law graduates and the bigwigs on the...
What Does City ‘Mini-Boom’ Mean For Wannabe Lawyers?
Hope (of City recovery, creation of more fat cats and then another crash) is beautiful,...