Tag: Lawyers
Magic circle firm throws a ringer into charity cycling competition — and wins
Freshfields enters a fitness trainer into Tour de Law competition, who, funnily enough, manages to cycle faster than just about everyone else
Solicitor’s dalliance with Ched Evans debate pulled from Internet
Twitter storm rages as Irish footballers’ association whips contentious article from its website
Stats show firms and chambers target small pool of privately educated recruits
Fewer than 9% of law graduates went to private schools, but up to 40% of young lawyers at City legal practices and commercial sets were privately educated
Trainee solicitor who tried to pull Chris Huhne-style scam to protect father loses appeal
Law career hopes of solicitor-to-be dashed
City firms sign up to 25-hours-a-year pro bono deal
Mix of US and English practices lead way -- but is there more to be done and what does pro bono mean for legal aid?
Crown Court solicitor-advocate tells barristers to stop being so smug
The leader of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association hits out at the patronising bar -- as well as the government for turning Magna Carta celebrations into a “legal business fair”
Now Scots aim for independence from God
Humanist group throws thousands at research into rooting out “special laws, practises or exemptions for religions or religious organisations” north of the boarder
The top 10 law fair freebies of 2014
It has been a vintage year
Solicitor coughs up tens of thousands in internet dating blackmail honey trap
“No Strings Adult Fun” turns out to have lots of strings attached for lawyer
Halloween exclusive: Son of Dracula speaks to Legal Cheek — he’s a lawyer
Bela Lugosi Jr is a longstanding top flight Hollywood attorney who was instrumental in campaign for groundbreaking image rights legislation in California
Full transcript: dictator Manuel Noriega’s failed claim against Call of Duty makers for basing character on him
Panama’s former military hard-man sees case thrown out of court
Film review: ‘The Judge’ — pissing all over legal accuracy
Lawyers in the audience will struggle not to throw their mega–buckets of popcorn at the screen
City partner’s daughter blows lid on Fieldfisher’s lunchtime pheasant farrago
Several things you didn’t know about post-rebranded Fieldfisher: the partners like posh lunches, preferably game bird-orientated; they don’t always get what they want; and their children are privy to internal memos
Pistorius sentence sparks Twitter row over what five years really means
This morning’s ruling sees the “Bladerunner” taken down to the cells, but will it be the final curtain for a plethora of parody Twitter accounts?
Al Murray wants ‘trolling’ to be re-named ‘grayling’
Was the nation’s press grayled by the justice secretary?
Man sues hospital where he woke from operation wearing pink knickers — claim form in full
Who said drafting was dull?
Ukrainian court’s Wi-Fi is called ‘Putin is a d*ckhead’
Chris Grayling-loathers may sniff an opportunity
Taylor Wessing goes into lockdown to protect identity of partner who made out with first year trainee at welcome party
Gossip raging across City about which "head of department" hooked up with rookie
The language of the legal directory: decoded — 2014 edition
Wigapedia returns to make his annual translation of the Legal 500
Come ride in my lime green Lamborghini, says law firm boss
Solicitors' firm chief exec loves his car so much that he wants to share it