Tag: Solicitors
Is The London Legal Walk The Shortest, Least Taxing Sponsored Walk In The History Of Sponsored Walks?
I know it’s great to raise money for worthy causes – and I’m personally very...
PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)
Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...
‘I’m The MD Of Mangan Associates!’ Man Who Claimed He Was Solicitor Faces Jail
It seems that everyone is pretending – or at least allegedly pretending – to be...
Four Reasons Why The Trainee Minimum Wage Had To Go
You heard it here first, a full hour before any other publication, and it’s now...
BREAKING: Trainee Solicitor Minimum Wage Looks Like It’s About To Be Scrapped
15.20: I’ve just ducked out of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) meeting where a final...
Picture of Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf Boss To Sell For £30K
Geoffrey Raymond, an artist who does annotated pictures of fallen Wall Street icons, has turned...
Law Firms Which Sponsored Award Ceremony In Double Award Win Shocker
“Every single night of every single year the Grosvenor House hotel in London is filled...
Could The Days of Lawyers Charging Clients For The Time They Spend Gossiping On Twitter Be Over?
During a brief spell working as a paralegal at Clyde & Co in 2006, I...
Law Society Cancels Conference Organised By Group That Says Being Gay Leads To ‘Disease’
Throughout last week there were murmurings of an embarrassment at the Law Society involving marriage...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Legal Profession’s Transformation Could Be ‘King’s Cross-Like’
Within walking distance of central London, and just two hours from Paris by Eurostar, King’s...
Lawyers’ Pinterest Boards: Top Five
Since I discovered the new social networking site Pinterest – which is best described as...
SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC Makes Made in Chelsea Debut
There has been much excitement in the legal world about the fact that Made in...
PODCAST: Scrap Trainee Minimum Salary And ‘Only The Rich’ Will Become Solicitors, Says Junior Lawyers Division Chief
The minimum trainee salary debate is developing into quite a fight – with the latest...
Ex-Clifford Chance Solicitor Who Works Part-Time As Roy Hodgson Look-a-Like Backs New England Boss
The Sun took its legal coverage up a notch today when it featured solicitor Neil...
Berwin Leighton Paisner Trainee Posed as Evening Standard Journalist To Obtain Info In Olympics Dispute, Say Protesters
A trainee solicitor at Berwin Leighton Paisner has been reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority...
‘Fake’ Barrister Used Pub As Office And Joked His Wig Was ‘Itchy’, Says Prosecution
Last week, the trial of a law graduate charged with fraud for attempting to pass...
London Election Day: Full List of Lawyer Candidates, Including The Fisher Meredith Partner Standing For UKIP
Last week, I wrote a piece for The Guardian profiling three of the lawyers vying...
Linklaters Pays Alistair Darling £15,300 For Making a Speech
As you may have noted from the extract above – taken from the House of...
Want a Trainee? Law Society To Help London Trainees At Stricken Dewey & LeBoeuf Find New Firms
The Law Society is set to step in to assist trainees in the London office...
ADVICE: Your Uni Choices Are Fine, But Why The Narrow Focus On The Bar?
I recently received this email from a prospective law student… Read my response below.
Lord Phillips of Sudbury: ‘Impersonal’ and ‘Bureaucratic’ Legal Profession Is ‘In Crisis’
Veteran lawyers are always complaining that the profession is going to the dogs. But never...