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...

Jul 26 2013 11:00am

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...

Jul 25 2013 12:43pm

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...

Jul 23 2013 4:45pm

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...

Jul 23 2013 11:05am

Adventures in law firm marketing

Spotted yesterday in fashionable London artist enclave Hackney Wick. In the interests of accuracy, it...

Jul 22 2013 9:30am

‘You need an offer…but you only need one’

It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and...

Jul 19 2013 11:55am

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...

Jul 19 2013 8:34am

Legal job website of the week

“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...

Jul 18 2013 2:09pm

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...

Jul 18 2013 9:40am

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...

Jul 15 2013 1:58pm

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...

Jul 15 2013 8:45am

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...

Jul 11 2013 2:05pm

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