Tag: News
Morning round-up: Tuesday 31 March
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Is this the youngest chambers pupil ever?
1KBW silk plonks the old horsehair on baby’s head in craven bid to win cute points from Twitterati
Law firms run Oxbridge recruitment targets as high as 50% of trainees, says diversity chief
A senior Law Society figure claims unofficial bias in favour of elitism remains rife among City and large commercial firms
University of Law beats rivals to bag first teaching law firm licence
Nottingham left to lick its wounds as the country’s biggest law school is awarded alternative business structure status
CMS Cameron McKenna waves good-bye to 38% of spring NQs
CMS Cameron McKenna has kept just 16 of its 26 spring newly-qualified cohort, posting a comparatively woeful retention rate of 62%
The Judge rules: This is the end … for the criminal bar
Wannabe criminal barristers should “celebrate” yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling by spinning the classic Doors song and getting pissed to Jim Morrison’s prophetic lyrics
Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur
Never judge a law firm by its website
Twitterati goes wild after Lord Wilson uses exclamation mark in Supreme Court judgment!
Even Lord Denning didn't go this far
Pinsent Masons retains 79% of qualifying trainees
Latest City firm to put qualifying young bloods out of their misery is keeping 15 of its spring 2015 round
Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition
Strathclyde, Huddersfield, Greenwich and BPP are best unis for pro bono
Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2015 winners announced
Morning round-up: Thursday 26 March
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back on picket line
Court backs government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime will have to rob banks
Exeter Uni students boss this year’s Clifford Chance ‘CV Blind’ competition
Students from Russell Group institution net 20% of vac scheme places awarded through scheme, but overall winner is from LSE
Wig for sale on the cheap: one witchdoctor former owner
Freshly-called lawyers could save a few quid by picking up second hand horsehair that a bogus witchdoctor is flogging after £1 million swindling spree
A lawyer is backing a terrifying law to enforce public execution of gay people
Quirks in California’s referendum system have allowed the promotion of a dangerously homophobic bill, as local politicians call for lawyer proponent to be struck off
Leveson’s advice to wannabe advocates: stop bleating on about the blindingly obvious
On the eve of judging the Bar’s annual mock trial competition the President of the Queen’s Bench Division speaks exclusively to Legal Cheek
Queens University Belfast students take law soc election campaign to next level with Beyonce-inspired ad
All for the price of a bottle of vodka
Social media prankster tries to start rave in law library
Students at Sydney University law library are so busy they hardly notice the jape
Celestial gods snub legal London – City lawyers miss out on eclipse fun
Eclipse? What eclipse? That was the disappointed chorus from the heart of the legal profession planet; but Faroese lawyers were laughing
Lawyer fleeced for best part of €250,000 from client account in a scam as old as (Nigerian) hills
Irish high court stops short of striking off Dublin solicitor because he was depressed -- and paid the cash back