Tag: Solicitors

Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top judicial posts

Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders

Apr 22 2015 2:50pm

Who insists on the poshest funerals? Yep, it’s the lawyers

Latest UK death research shows the legal profession beats bankers and generals by being keenest to splurge its way into the afterlife

Apr 22 2015 12:06pm

Which Game of Thrones character is your law firm?

Maybe don't use these in a training contract application

Apr 22 2015 10:17am

Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur

Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police

Apr 21 2015 2:51pm

Need legal advice? Would you like chips with that?

Welsh based firm opt for Fish and Chip based advert to haul in the clients

Apr 20 2015 12:20pm

City law firms retain more qualifying solicitors than before financial crash

There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking

Apr 20 2015 9:44am

Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom

It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting

Apr 17 2015 2:53pm

An LPC grad has made a gangster film about paralegals

Harnessing the drudgery of life at the bottom of the legal food chain to launch an alternative career

Apr 17 2015 10:48am

The Judge Rules: Politicians hate lawyers – and always have

A round-up of the party election manifestos demonstrates yet again that while the legal profession might have right on its side, the political establishment of all colours doesn’t give a monkey’s

Apr 17 2015 9:14am

Fed up with the grind at the English bar? Perhaps this set of Kiwi jokers appeals…

Pastafarians preferred, says an Auckland barrister in desperate bid to replace the last chap, who never fit in owing to odd film tastes

Apr 16 2015 4:58pm

Birds of prey swoop into Inns of Court to protect bald barristers from seagull attacks

Life for follicly-challenged lawyers made a misery by London gulls -- but help on hand

Apr 16 2015 12:39pm

Essex Uni law grad first over line to qualify as solicitor through paralegal shortcut

30 year-old narrowly beats gaggle of paralegals to equivalent means qualification that bypasses training contract

Apr 16 2015 10:43am

Clifford Chance cancels YouTube rant trainee’s Singapore secondment amid regulatory concerns

Fall-out from anti-West rant continues to cause magic circle firm difficulties

Apr 16 2015 9:27am

Legal profession doesn’t rate Tory manifesto pledge to scrap Human Rights Act

Anger as Conservatives promise Bill of Rights and to reduce power of European Court of Human Rights -- oh, and hint at more legal aid cuts

Apr 14 2015 7:27pm

Yet another copyright infringement has surfaced on Twitter

Is Tesos Express the best example yet of cheeky local retailers tweaking the tails of national and multinational behemoths -- and will they get away with it?

Apr 14 2015 3:16pm

16 reasons why Doughty Street’s Tunde Okewale is the most followed barrister on Instagram

Amal Clooney's chambers colleague is rocking the Insta-verse

Apr 14 2015 9:32am

Labour politicians don’t want to talk about their vague legal aid manifesto pledge on Twitter

Key opposition figures fail to respond to leading legal tweeter David Allen Green

Apr 13 2015 7:19pm

Legal aid lawyers depicted as menage a trois loving superheroes in lobbying film

City law firms back star-studded cast in its pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to system

Apr 13 2015 12:21pm

Law firm trainee diversity on the up, according to regulator’s figures

Smaller practices are outpacing larger firms, but across the board the profession is more diverse than the wider population

Apr 10 2015 4:53pm

The Judge Rules: Why the Law Society won’t stick up for solicitor-advocates

A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands -- all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid

Apr 10 2015 12:18pm

Is there an unexploded Nazi bomb under your law firm?

Release of online bombing map of the London Blitz shows some of the world’s biggest names in corporate law could be at risk of being blown to kingdom come

Apr 10 2015 9:19am