Tag: Solicitors
‘Unless your dad is senior partner you are the only person in your firm who truly cares about your career’
With work thin on the ground after the 2008 crash, corporate lawyer Danvers Baillieu found...
7 things that you should know about Clifford Chance’s ‘CV blind’ programme
This morning Clifford Chance created a stir with news of its ‘CV blind’ policy, which...
Lawyers sued for not advising woman that divorce would end her marriage
An appeal of the dismissal of a professional negligence claim against several London divorce lawyers...
This Facebook post doesn’t inspire confidence in the jury system
Defendants (and their lawyers) appearing at Teeside Crown Court next week may be interested to...
How to get the Daily Mail onside
If demonstrating your desperation through a strike doesn’t change the mind of your foes, simply...
Interview: Glamour model and law student Vanessa Knowles on her quest to bag a training contract
In autumn we reported on the glamour model who has used an Amazon Wishlist, and...
WalkOut4Justice: In pictures
This is how the first strike in the Bar’s history looked
The law firm at the heart of the Nick Griffin bankruptcy
Today it has been widely reported that BNP leader Nick Griffin has been declared bankrupt....
The irresistibility of the competition lawyer
It’s safe to assume that few lawyers have successfully charmed members of the opposite sex...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The competitively-tendered trial of Lord Chancellor Scrooge
WaitroseLaw returns with the final instalment of her festive fable (you can read the whole...
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...
‘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...
The Something Must Be Done Act 2014
Lawyer and blogger David Allen Green has had enough of tiresome legislation and meddlesome courts…...
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...
Who puts a speed camera on their Christmas card?
Joyless law firm Christmas card of 2013 goes to Brian Koffman & Co Solicitors for...
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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol
A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...