Tag: News

Morning round-up: Tuesday 31 March

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

Mar 31 2015 8:15am

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

Mar 30 2015 1:28pm

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

Mar 30 2015 9:41am

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

Mar 27 2015 3:57pm

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%

Mar 27 2015 2:23pm

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

Mar 27 2015 12:00pm

Google Street View shatters law firm’s delusions of grandeur

Never judge a law firm by its website

Mar 27 2015 9:55am

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

Mar 26 2015 2:24pm

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

Mar 26 2015 12:31pm

Strathclyde, Huddersfield, Greenwich and BPP are best unis for pro bono

Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2015 winners announced

Mar 26 2015 9:10am

Morning round-up: Thursday 26 March

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

Mar 26 2015 8:17am

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

Mar 25 2015 3:42pm

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

Mar 25 2015 12:08pm

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

Mar 25 2015 9:59am

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

Mar 24 2015 12:19pm

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

Mar 24 2015 9:14am

Social media prankster tries to start rave in law library

Students at Sydney University law library are so busy they hardly notice the jape

Mar 23 2015 11:46am

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

Mar 20 2015 4:08pm