Tag: Solicitors

Former Allen & Overy partner jailed for 17 years after pleading guilty to child sex trafficking

A former partner at magic circle firm Allen & Overy has been sentenced to over...

Dec 23 2013 9:02am

‘Training contracts were hard to come by: 147 applications resulted in 147 rejections’

The 90s recession proved a blessing in disguise for Lancaster University senior law lecturer Angus...

Dec 20 2013 1:37pm

The Something Must Be Done Act 2014

Lawyer and blogger David Allen Green has had enough of tiresome legislation and meddlesome courts…...

Dec 20 2013 9:51am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: ‘I see an insurance company call centre and a slowly disintegrating wig’

Waitrose Law returns with the third instalment of her legal profession festive fable (here are...

Dec 19 2013 2:02pm

Who puts a speed camera on their Christmas card?

Joyless law firm Christmas card of 2013 goes to Brian Koffman & Co Solicitors for...

Dec 17 2013 2:15pm

How to speak lawyer: a guide for trainee solicitors and pupil barristers

The relationship between a trainee/pupil and their supervising lawyer is a complex one, fraught with...

Dec 17 2013 8:40am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The Barrister Hottie Ghost of Christmas Past

Waitrose Law returns with the second instalment of her legal profession festive fable (part one...

Dec 16 2013 11:59am

Cool off this unseasonably warm December with an ‘ice cream with lawyer’

All these enticing scoops of ice cream lack are some solicitor and barrister sprinkles…

Dec 16 2013 9:34am

Podcast: Do you have a better chance of landing a training contract if you do your law degree in London?

The growing separation between recovering London and the struggling rest of the country poses an...

Dec 12 2013 1:43pm

12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales

Certain courts will never grace the pages of glossy law school brochures — with good...

Dec 12 2013 9:05am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Dec 11 2013 12:23pm

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

Dec 10 2013 10:29am

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

Dec 9 2013 1:07pm

The number of students enrolling on the LPC is down 8.4% this year — with the course on average only 44% full

Amid continued concerns about the numbers of training contracts available, fewer students are doing the...

Dec 9 2013 9:02am

Just when you thought national newspaper picture editors couldn’t select a more inappropriate law photo…

They’ve all been at it lately. Last month the Guardian committed the relatively minor offence...

Dec 4 2013 8:59am

Training contract offers: how they once looked

Over the weekend BKRW Solicitors’ Oliver Kirk tweeted this picture of his training contract offer...

Dec 3 2013 8:49am

Law student sends multiple-claused note to neighbours warning them of party

Subclauses (i) and (ii) of clause (b) from this note sent over the weekend are...

Dec 2 2013 11:56am

‘The whole chargeable hours thing was a bit of a pain in the backside’

There’s a reason not many lawyers move back into practice after going in-house, says Mark...

Nov 29 2013 11:57am

The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes

Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...

Nov 29 2013 9:02am

Solicitor at top corporate firm is flogging GDL and LPC notes to hard-up students

EXCLUSIVE: A solicitor at leading law firm Kennedys is running a sideline selling law school...

Nov 28 2013 11:20am

Ashurst senior associate to stand trial over death of motorcyclist

A young solicitor at City law firm Ashurst has been ordered to stand trial in...

Nov 28 2013 10:43am