Tag: Solicitors

‘The Chances You Don’t Take Are The Ones You Regret’

Ed note: This is the first in a series of posts where leading members of...

Oct 26 2012 10:20am

Law Society Gazette’s Legal Personality Of The Year Karen Todner Backs Decision To Scrap Trainee Minimum Wage

Karen Todner may have helped save Gary McKinnon from extradition to the US, but when...

Oct 26 2012 9:19am

Fake QC Who Offered Bogus Pupillages Was Campaign Manager Of PCC Candidate Mervyn Barrett, Claims Solicitor

This is one of those ‘Wow, just wow!’ stories. It has two strands, which come...

Oct 24 2012 8:32am

The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law

There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...

Oct 23 2012 10:01am

Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account

QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...

Oct 22 2012 3:13pm

Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Protester Trenton Oldfield And His, Er, Oxford-Educated Lawyers…

While the decision to jail Trenton Oldfield has been greeted with shock – the New...

Oct 22 2012 9:13am

Parading Around With a Tyre On Your Head: Enough To Halt The Tide Of Co-op Law?

Spotted yesterday in Covent Garden: representatives of QualitySolicitors parading around with vegetables and tyres on...

Oct 19 2012 12:19pm

Claims Consultant’s ‘Independent’ Pressure Group Seems Rather Close To Russell Jones & Walker…

Bully-Banks, the anti-bank pressure group founded by claims consultant and former barrister Jeremy Roe, is...

Oct 19 2012 10:19am

Car Ploughs Through The Wall Of Law Firm AGAIN: Potentially Deadly Crash Is Second In 6 Years

Is Exeter law firm St James’ Solicitors the most dangerous place to work in Britain?...

Oct 18 2012 2:49pm

How Weird And Frightening Should You Be Allowed To Be On Twitter Before You Get Prosecuted?

Yesterday’s debate on free speech vs regulation of social media – held at London’s Free...

Oct 18 2012 10:22am

Black History Month At The Law Society, Featuring Convicted Expenses Cheat Baron Taylor of Warwick

As the Law Society’s Black History Month celebrations got underway on Monday, it was a...

Oct 17 2012 11:28am

Is It OK For a Law Firm To Publicly Describe One Of Its Secretaries As ‘The Office Cougar’?

The employee bios listed on the website of Liverpool law firm McKays are, like, totally...

Oct 16 2012 2:27pm

Day Of Reckoning Arrives For Court Interpreting Company Which Offered Jobs To Animals

Applied Language Solutions (ALS), the gaffe-prone interpreting service awarded the exclusive right to supply interpreters...

Oct 15 2012 6:29am

Mystery As English Solicitor Found Dead In Yemen

Roger Stokes, an English solicitor with the Yemeni law firm Sheikh Tariq Abdullah, has died...

Oct 12 2012 1:04pm

It’s Official: City Lawyers Hate Their Jobs

At last night’s Life With Law talk on ‘finding your path and making things happen’,...

Oct 11 2012 10:17am

The Solicitors Who Pre-Plan Their Tweets a Week In Advance

A legal PR has revealed that solicitors at his law firm are demanding a weekly...

Oct 8 2012 1:17pm

Observer Hints That Solicitor Called ‘Chris’ May Have Been Involved In Civil Procedure Rules Breach. But Who’s ‘Chris’?

Yesterday may not have been the most relaxing Sunday for a mystery media law partner...

Oct 8 2012 10:09am

Legal Cheek’s Poetry Corner

To mark National Poetry Day, we put out a call on Twitter for law-related verse....

Oct 4 2012 4:27pm

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Made In Chelsea, The Lawyers’ Version – Leaked Pilot Tape

Back in April, we reported that SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC (pictured) had mentioned the...

Oct 3 2012 1:15pm

Great British Bake Off Star John Whaite Rejected Eversheds To Pursue Baking Dream

This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of...

Oct 2 2012 4:20pm

Who Said Judges Don’t Get Social Media?

The full transcript of yesterday’s annual press conference with the Lord Chief Justice is very...

Sep 28 2012 9:14am