Tag: Solicitors
‘Why, oh why, am I a barrister?’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, human rights barrister Barbara...
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...
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...
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...
Adventures in law firm marketing
Spotted yesterday in fashionable London artist enclave Hackney Wick. In the interests of accuracy, it...
‘You need an offer…but you only need one’
It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and...
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...
Legal job website of the week
“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...
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...
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...
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...
The most warped employment tribunal arguments used by claimants to (generally unsuccessfully) hang onto their jobs
A recent tribunal which saw a teacher compare Jews to Star Trek’s Vulcans — and...
Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers
We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...
Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown
On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...
‘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...
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...
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’...
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...
Has Sainsbury’s launched a legal services arm?
‘Sainsbury’s Legal’ doesn’t, of course, exist (yet), which makes this bail condition — which appeared...
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...
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...