Tag: News
The emerging etiquette of the training contract video interview
How best to present yourself to potential employers through a laptop camera.
Morning round-up: Friday 25 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
‘I worry I’m wasting my hero’s heart at law school’
Heroic law student reveals inner struggle to PostSecret.
12 alternative approaches to law revision
Because it can help to mix things up...
Morning round-up: Thursday 24 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Fancy a chat with Robbie Savage?
Leeds law firm Blacks hires Match of the Day pundit Robbie Savage and publishes "direct line" to ex-Premiership star on its website.
DWF launches video interview — doubling number of wannabe trainees it considers
Exclusive: DWF becomes the first big UK law firm to incorporate video into its training contract interview process.
Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
The 8 best law firm names in England
Amazingly, these law firms are all real.
Take a deep breath and do some colouring in
An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
‘They call me Gerrie Nel and I am mad as hell’: Now Pistorius prosecutor gets his own rap
Following the hip hop creations spawned in tribute to Oscar Pistorius' defence lawyer, Barry Roux, a track has been recorded in honour of tough-talking Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor in the case.
Google autocomplete reveals people’s true feelings about lawyers
Hot arrogant scum: The British public's view of solicitors, barristers and law students is rather confused.
Morning round-up: Thursday 17 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
A law-themed drinking game called ‘Hammertime’ has been created
Could "Hammertime", which was first popularised among Australian law students, go global this summer?
Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.
Morning round-up: Wednesday 16 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
Top QCs slam Pistorius prosecutor’s cross-examination style
Don't imitate approach of Gerrie Nel, urge three silks on Twitter.
Taxi driver films himself rebuffing lawyer’s sexual advances — litigation ensues
Video of drunken US lawyer seducing taxi driver leads to three legal disputes.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 15 April
The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.
QC day: in cat selfies
Bringing together the cat selfie template that exploded on social media over the weekend and today's QC appointment ceremony.