Tag: Solicitors

Podcast: Could doing something outrageous help you get a training contract?

Cambridge law student Sebastian Salek (pictured above left with Legal Cheek‘s Tom Webb and Kevin...

Aug 16 2013 9:04am

The male barrister hottie list ‘subverted expectations’ — the female one ‘reinforces the most reactionary of ideas’

YourBarristerBoyfriend’s original list is well-written, hilarious and has pictures of good-looking shirtless barristers. Naturally, I...

Aug 15 2013 9:05am

10 of the most unhinged comments about lawyers to ever grace the Mail Online

What with Robert Colover‘s labelling of a paedophile’s victim as “predatory”, the emergence of Barbara...

Aug 14 2013 9:53am

A brief history of online overshare disasters

A spate of recent inter-lawyer Twitter bust-ups (see here, here and here) reminds WaitroseLaw of...

Aug 13 2013 9:22am

The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too

As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified...

Aug 7 2013 9:26am

‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was for the firm’

In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, former Bond Pearce solicitor...

Aug 2 2013 1:11pm

Tuckers senior partner says it’s ‘not my job 2 care about justice’ and that he couldn’t ‘give a flying f… about anybody else’

After David Dickinson look-a-like (and Tuckers Solicitors senior partner) Franklin Sinclair showed off his Jaguar...

Aug 2 2013 9:20am

How junior lawyers can survive a merger

In the wake of yesterday’s tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons —...

Aug 1 2013 12:38pm

11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day

As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into...

Aug 1 2013 9:23am

Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge the unfair trial of Jesus Christ

A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to...

Jul 30 2013 8:59am

‘Why, oh why, am I a barrister?’

In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, human rights barrister Barbara...

Jul 26 2013 11:00am

Think a pregnancy monitored by the world’s media is stressful? Try starting a family at a City law firm…

 “Many law  firms seem to take the attitude that once you’ve got a bun in...

Jul 25 2013 12:43pm

Olympic rower cleared of assault: Clifford Chance associate ‘was like a dog snapping’ as he ‘attempted to bite me on the nose’

Olympic rower Sean Corrigall has been cleared today of assaulting Clifford Chance associate Edward Dyson...

Jul 23 2013 4:45pm

The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?

Someone at “The Tomes” seems to have been in a little bit too much of...

Jul 23 2013 11:05am

Adventures in law firm marketing

Spotted yesterday in fashionable London artist enclave Hackney Wick. In the interests of accuracy, it...

Jul 22 2013 9:30am

‘You need an offer…but you only need one’

It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and...

Jul 19 2013 11:55am

JK Rowling slams Soho law firm — Soho law firm hangs partner out to dry

“To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I had assumed that I could...

Jul 19 2013 8:34am

Legal job website of the week

“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...

Jul 18 2013 2:09pm

Cycling solicitor who jumped red light claims filming him is ‘against data protection law’

Woe betide any red light-jumping cyclist who encounters SonOfTheWinds, a YouTube phenomenon who spends his...

Jul 18 2013 9:40am

Do the lawyers who are demanding that @Pippatips be deleted understand Twitter?

According to The Independent, Harbottle & Lewis is demanding, on behalf of Pippa Middleton, that...

Jul 15 2013 1:58pm

Spoof Lord Chief Justice application by Lord Justice Moses (aged 67½) — the full text

On Friday the Law Society Gazette‘s Catherine Baksi reported that Court of Appeal judge Sir...

Jul 15 2013 8:45am