Tag: News
Clifford Chance charges living wage contractors 30 quid entry to Xmas party — lawyers get in free
Clifford Chance security guard's anonymous Twitter account reveals secrets of life as a magic circle 'second class citizen'
Morning round-up: Monday 8 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Demands for universities to shop extremist students will be red-tape nightmare, say law school chiefs
Ministers are keen for vice-chancellors to monitor students for fundamentalist leanings -- but senior law academics have their doubts over practicalities
A handy five-point plan on how to pull law students
Student website reckons it’s sussed how to cajole knackered, stressed and career-obsessed wannabe lawyers into the sack
Exclusive interview: Felipe from The Apprentice on why he quit City law to follow his dreams
Former Latham & Watkins and Slaughter and May man learned lots from private practice, but doesn’t miss it — he tells Legal Cheek
Morning round up: Friday 5 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The Apprentice Review: Bye-bye lawyers, it was fun, but in the end you were too clever by half
As legal profession interest in The Apprentice evaporates, our blogger looks back on the last hurrah of ex-Slaughter and May man Felipe as he follows family solicitor Lauren to the exit
Law student, 80, graduates from Liverpool Uni
80-year-old former copper picks up law master degree -- but he’s not the oldest ever
Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer fired from The Apprentice for ‘trying to be too smart’
Second solicitor ditched from hit BBC show by lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar
Legal apprenticeship schemes — cheap labour for law firms?
Some apprentices are paid less than half what their trainee counterparts earn -- raising suggestions that the role could revolutionise legal profession training
Morning round-up: Thursday 4 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Law student boasts about making £300 selling stolen university library books
Is this tale of a youthful tea-leaf an illustration of modern commercial awareness -- or just outright criminality?
Litigant-in-person surgeon wows Court of Appeal with ‘high quality’ advocacy
Doctor's performance "would have done credit to an experienced member of the bar"
Morning round-up: Wednesday 3 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Slaughter and May is increasing its Christmas bonuses — but not by as much as Skadden
Jealous? Just remember that Slaughter and May lawyers are themselves seething with resentment at Skadden lawyers
Research: Majority of law grads now become paralegals before doing a training contract
New pre-trainee tier is becoming the norm
Morning round-up: Tuesday 2 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Garden Court barrister walks into a lamppost — Twitter goes wild
Social media is watching
London law student creates ‘Writ of Summons’ to ask coursemate to law society ball
Courtship, wannabe lawyer-style
Morning round-up: Monday 1 December
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Law is one of most ethnically diverse university subjects, government stats show
Some 32% of LLB students are non-white, yet ethnic minorities remain poorly represented at many top law firms