Tag: Solicitors

There was a lawyer in a cage at Liverpool Street station

It’s amazing what you can stumble across in the rush hour at one of London’s busiest railway stations

May 11 2015 10:17am

Legal Cheek election poll results: law students and lawyers back Labour

Ed Miliband’s margin over the Conservatives is narrow, but enough to give the red rose party an outright majority

May 6 2015 2:12pm

Solicitor who called for all-Islamic airlines now wants City law firms to fund criminal legal aid

Huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ specialist says government should legislate to force mega-law firms into pro bono deal

May 6 2015 9:32am

The Judge Rules: Offering a glass of wine doesn’t amount to harassment

Women law students and young female lawyers doubtless have to battle leery male counterparts -- but there are gradations of perviness

May 1 2015 9:24am

Slaughter and May leaps to top of magic circle newly-qualified pay pile

King of the establishment firm hits psychologically important £70k mark, but still trails well behind Yanks in City

Apr 30 2015 4:20pm

Solicitor numbers rocket by 20% in face of tough economic climate

When will the bubble burst? There are 190% more practising today than 30 years ago

Apr 30 2015 1:22pm

Clifford Chance outstrips rivals in bid to field most charity walkers

Law firms can’t resist competing with each other -- even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates

Apr 29 2015 1:20pm

Litigant-in-person files notice to ‘f*ck this court and everything it stands for’

This expletive-fuelled -- but strangely nearly cogent -- notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever

Apr 29 2015 11:07am

Law firm charges wannabe solicitors thousands for homemade diploma and internship

Exclusive: The very expensive fortnight may leave students in more debt and still jobless

Apr 29 2015 9:35am

9 hateful Daily Mail comments about lawyers prompted by the illegal cycling of Justine Thornton

Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers

Apr 28 2015 11:18am

Election latest: some voters aren’t that sold on lawyer candidates

One Tory newbie barrister in standing in Hampshire, and our old friend the former telly producer turned Justice Secretary come in for flack

Apr 27 2015 3:18pm

Official figures: training contracts plummet by 12.5% over last decade

Tough conditions for wannabe solicitors continues -- as stats show London tightens grip on training contract market

Apr 27 2015 12:40pm

Exposed: another possible supermarket case of outrageous passing off

Will the intellectual property law teams at two supermarket giants leap into their panda cars to clamp down on these cheeky independents?

Apr 27 2015 10:30am

Bring on the revolution, cries former Appeal Court judge, imploring lawyers to ignore establishment and go on strike

Timid approach from establishment representation bodies should be binned, advises Sir Anthony Hooper, in bid to put fire in belly of criminal law practitioners

Apr 24 2015 4:17pm

City lawyer parliamentary candidate battles claims he over-egged experience at Clifford Chance

Tory safe seat man in bid to refute allegations that his claim to have headed a magic circle department is a big fat exaggeration

Apr 24 2015 3:01pm

Meet the solicitor-pop star more popular than her magic circle law firm

Slaughter and May pop star associate puts her firm in social media shadows with her latest catchy release

Apr 24 2015 11:02am

The Judge rules: lawyer websites — little more than worthy vanity publishing

A recent rash of online efforts from the legal profession should be praised for effort, but they won’t reach their supposed target audiences

Apr 24 2015 9:59am

Aussie law school boldly heads for space – but in wake of Sunderland trailblazers

University of Adelaide today takes its specialist module to the launch pad warning of fears that it’s not that lonely in space after all

Apr 23 2015 4:55pm

Cambridge law grads are the biggest earners in the legal profession

Light blues outstrip ancient rivals Oxford by £7,000, while LSE comes second and even the Scots get a look in

Apr 23 2015 3:37pm

Kennedy QC v Starkey in almighty Magna Carta bust up on this morning’s BBC radio

Lawyer and historian go hammer and tongs, while Twittersphere lambasts Law Society for dropping definite article clanger regarding the 800-year-old document

Apr 23 2015 12:25pm