Tag: News

That awkward moment when your celebrity client tweets his horror at the copyright infringement letter you sent on his behalf

London IP law firm Carpmaels & Ransford maintains dignified silence after TV adventurer Bear Grylls lifts legal threat against start-up knife company 'Bear Blades'

Aug 11 2014 11:43am

Law student who claimed benefits while at uni is given even more work to do

This is what happens when you don't cancel jobseeker's allowance after starting law school...

Aug 11 2014 9:18am

Morning round-up: Monday 11 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Aug 11 2014 7:49am

Young lawyer shortlist announced for Law Society ‘excellence awards’

The Law Society’s excellent adventure kicks off again this year with 17 award categories for solicitors, including a gong for training

Aug 8 2014 12:42pm

Morning round-up: Friday 8 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

Aug 8 2014 7:25am

Political blog Guido Fawkes attacks Oxford Uni Labour club chair for doing vac schemes at top City law firms

Law student's social media footprint used by popular right-wing blog to make 'champagne socialism' accusations that don't quite hit the mark

Aug 7 2014 12:23pm

Morning round-up: Thursday 7 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 7 2014 7:57am

Too many lawyers? Blame the bankers

The rocketing number of law graduates -- and the topsy-like growth of the legal profession over the last generation -- has got The Times worried. But the numbers aren’t as simple as they seem

Aug 6 2014 1:26pm

Revealed: the really badly written and fake-sounding LPC scam emails that have spurred SRA warning

Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers

Aug 6 2014 9:54am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 6 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 6 2014 8:13am

Addressing a judge: just don’t call them ‘Your Majesty’

Beware, wannabe lawyers, of emulating defendant at Grimsby Crown Court in using the royal address to greet a judge

Aug 5 2014 1:46pm

The unlucky law firm which went from sharing name with Holocaust denier to sharing name with terrorist group

David M Irving Solicitors may be rueing its 2007 ‘Isis Legal’ rebrand

Aug 5 2014 9:28am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 5 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 5 2014 7:55am

Legal pic of the day

On today's centenary of the start of the first world war, this photo shows members of the Inns of Court Regiment being drilled in Hertfordshire during the conflict

Aug 4 2014 3:31pm

Edinburgh Uni law graduate cracks America with hilarious ad for his new firm

Scottish solicitor Peter Reid, who moved to Texas in 2010, succeeds where many Brits have failed as he wows US with YouTube masterpiece

Aug 4 2014 2:28pm

Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year

First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially

Aug 4 2014 8:59am

Morning round-up: Monday 4 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 4 2014 7:39am

A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day

Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today

Aug 1 2014 1:45pm

Morning round-up: Friday 1 August

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

Aug 1 2014 8:01am

An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day

Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle

Jul 31 2014 4:16pm