Tag: Lawyers
Clifford Chance outstrips rivals in bid to field most charity walkers
Law firms can’t resist competing with each other -- even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates
Litigant-in-person files notice to ‘f*ck this court and everything it stands for’
This expletive-fuelled -- but strangely nearly cogent -- notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever
Law firm charges wannabe solicitors thousands for homemade diploma and internship
Exclusive: The very expensive fortnight may leave students in more debt and still jobless
Star Wars fighters do battle above lawyer heads in Manchester
Office block lobby in building that houses three leading law firms has been turned into dreamland for the film’s addicts
9 hateful Daily Mail comments about lawyers prompted by the illegal cycling of Justine Thornton
Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers
Election latest: some voters aren’t that sold on lawyer candidates
One Tory newbie barrister in standing in Hampshire, and our old friend the former telly producer turned Justice Secretary come in for flack
Official figures: training contracts plummet by 12.5% over last decade
Tough conditions for wannabe solicitors continues -- as stats show London tightens grip on training contract market
Exposed: another possible supermarket case of outrageous passing off
Will the intellectual property law teams at two supermarket giants leap into their panda cars to clamp down on these cheeky independents?
City lawyer parliamentary candidate battles claims he over-egged experience at Clifford Chance
Tory safe seat man in bid to refute allegations that his claim to have headed a magic circle department is a big fat exaggeration
Meet the solicitor-pop star more popular than her magic circle law firm
Slaughter and May pop star associate puts her firm in social media shadows with her latest catchy release
The Judge rules: lawyer websites — little more than worthy vanity publishing
A recent rash of online efforts from the legal profession should be praised for effort, but they won’t reach their supposed target audiences
Aussie law school boldly heads for space – but in wake of Sunderland trailblazers
University of Adelaide today takes its specialist module to the launch pad warning of fears that it’s not that lonely in space after all
Cambridge law grads are the biggest earners in the legal profession
Light blues outstrip ancient rivals Oxford by £7,000, while LSE comes second and even the Scots get a look in
Kennedy QC v Starkey in almighty Magna Carta bust up on this morning’s BBC radio
Lawyer and historian go hammer and tongs, while Twittersphere lambasts Law Society for dropping definite article clanger regarding the 800-year-old document
5 bad things about being a City lawyer that nobody tells you about
Anonymous London solicitor Corporate Drone goes where the graduate recruitment brochures definitely do not
Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top judicial posts
Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders
Who insists on the poshest funerals? Yep, it’s the lawyers
Latest UK death research shows the legal profession beats bankers and generals by being keenest to splurge its way into the afterlife
Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur
Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police
City law firms retain more qualifying solicitors than before financial crash
There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking
Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom
It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting
An LPC grad has made a gangster film about paralegals
Harnessing the drudgery of life at the bottom of the legal food chain to launch an alternative career