Tag: Solicitors
‘No I don’t want to take that file home this weekend, why don’t you do it Mr Head of Department?’
UCL legal academic Richard Moorhead wonders if his rocky spell in private practice would have...
Video: Clifford Chance trainee in ‘f*cking people over for money’ YouTube boast
A Clifford Chance trainee is in serious trouble after he was filmed boasting about his...
What lawyers can learn from legal dramas
As the return of hit BBC barrister series Silk nears, WaitroseLaw considers the practical lessons...
Event: If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
On the evening of Thursday 10th October six authors of posts in Legal Cheek‘s ‘If...
Don’t you step into my courtroom wearing blue suede trainers, judge tells lawyer
Recently we reported on the judge who sent a defendant to the cells for wearing...
Incorrect tweet forces BPP to reveal how many of its grads bagged training contracts
Lawyer2B has a piece today detailing the employment rates of the biggest Legal Practice Course...
Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday’s The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless —...
Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City law firm
Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner....
Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts
Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about...
‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’
Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of...
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
How to survive the first terrifying weeks as a newly qualified solicitor
You never forget your first. Your pulse rockets, your stomach turns over uncomfortably and your...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...
Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit bottoms
A Crown Court judge sent a criminal to the cells for nearly three hours because...
‘Many, particularly in their early careers, seek to disguise themselves as lawyers’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Dalston law firm’s website is so awful that it’s ironically extremely cool
If this man were to continue walking down the road in east London hipster enclave...
On the menu: lawyers
Yesterday food blog Accidental Flatlander posted a photo that will chill the blood of solicitors...
The 10 best vac scheme selfies of the summer
Following the popularity of the ‘The 15 best mini-pupil selfies of the summer’, we returned...
Law firm pens are officially everywhere
Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...
UK legal education system given unlikely boost by Obama
The messy postgraduate route to qualifying as a lawyer in England and Wales comes in...
Podcast: What sexy law-related careers are there other than the Bar?
Like many young hopefuls, Thomas Connelly and Nathan Akhavan-Moossavi both found themselves drawn to the...