Tag: Solicitors

Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers

We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...

Jul 9 2013 1:47pm

Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown

On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...

Jul 8 2013 12:28pm

‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’

After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...

Jul 5 2013 12:25pm

Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?

Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that...

Jul 5 2013 10:22am

Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges to rival training contract

For the first time since 2008 there will be no ‘legal executive of the year’...

Jul 4 2013 2:42pm

The Guardian’s advice to this wannabe lawyer is really bad

The ‘work’ section of Saturday’s The Guardian featured a plea for help from a wannabe...

Jul 2 2013 12:51pm

Has Sainsbury’s launched a legal services arm?

‘Sainsbury’s Legal’ doesn’t, of course, exist (yet), which makes this bail condition — which appeared...

Jul 1 2013 3:17pm

Lawyers who submitted responses to legal aid consultation receive email telling them it was ‘deleted without being read’

Ever since it was confirmed that the Ministry of Justice had had 13,000 responses to...

Jul 1 2013 8:59am

Save UK Justice petition gets its 100,000th signature – pressure on government goes up a notch

A major House of Commons debate on the government’s proposals to reform legal aid is...

Jun 28 2013 12:53pm

You’re fired! Dynamo Legal founder crashes out of the Apprentice in storm of criticism about his foray into the law

New legal franchise brand Dynamo Legal has missed out on a £250,000 investment after its...

Jun 27 2013 9:31am

The key points of the Legal Education and Training Review explained in 10 tweets

For those who don’t fancy wading through the traditional legal press’s long-winded deconstructions of the...

Jun 25 2013 1:23pm

‘Don’t sweat the small stuff, do sweat the big stuff – and learn to tell the difference’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

Jun 21 2013 9:30am

Could the ‘Desk Safari’ craze spread to law?

So far, justice secretary Chris Grayling is the only representative of the legal profession to...

Jun 20 2013 10:01am

The terrifying personality cult of Bernadette Kearns

Meet Bernadette Kearns, the great leader of Wigan law firm Bernadette Kearns Property Lawyers. The...

Jun 18 2013 9:31am

Legal typos: 7 absolute howlers

Oh how we clinical negligence practitioners laughed when a pfannenstiel incision — which is a...

Jun 14 2013 12:34pm

How I became a tech start-up lawyer

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

Jun 14 2013 9:18am

The most mixed metaphor used to insult lawyers ever?

Last week’s piece in the Daily Mail about the top earning legal aid lawyers –...

Jun 12 2013 1:01pm

Exclusive footage of the legal aid solicitor who has quit law to become a busker

The news that a criminal defence solicitor had quit law to become a busker caused...

Jun 12 2013 9:58am

Freshfields: ‘no confidential material used’ by trainee who sold ‘inside tips’ to magic circle hopefuls

Magic circle giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has concluded its investigation into the trainee behind controversial...

Jun 11 2013 1:09pm

Potentially juicy magic circle constructive dismissal claim of the week

For those with an interest in the City branch of the legal profession, A Hussain...

Jun 10 2013 9:40am

The Freshfields trainee selling insider training contract interview tips for £150 a pop

Exclusive: NailThatTrainingContract.co.uk appeared online a few days ago. It offers “inside tips from a current...

Jun 7 2013 12:06pm