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...
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...
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...
The ‘Hilarious’ Video Craze Sweeping Law
There’s currently a fad among lawyers to craft – and sometimes tragically star in –...
Twitter Suspends QualitySolicitors’ Anti Co-Op Law Account
QualitySolicitors’ campaign against “faceless” legal services providers – which we highlighted on Friday – has backfired after...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mystery As English Solicitor Found Dead In Yemen
Roger Stokes, an English solicitor with the Yemeni law firm Sheikh Tariq Abdullah, has died...
It’s Official: City Lawyers Hate Their Jobs
At last night’s Life With Law talk on ‘finding your path and making things happen’,...
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...
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...
Legal Cheek’s Poetry Corner
To mark National Poetry Day, we put out a call on Twitter for law-related verse....
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...
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...
Who Said Judges Don’t Get Social Media?
The full transcript of yesterday’s annual press conference with the Lord Chief Justice is very...