Tag: Students

The spiritual home of Wednesbury Unreasonableness is for sale

West Midlands cinema at heart of Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp goes on the market

Jul 28 2014 9:48am

This sign for the toilets in the Royal Courts of Justice goes beyond everyday sexism

Female advocates, male non-advocates and wheelchair users are all flummoxed by this sign for the toilets at the Royal Courts of Justice

Jul 25 2014 1:55pm

Mayer Brown confirms drop in training contract numbers from 20 to 15 since 2012

Reduction in trainee numbers has taken place over two years as part of a bid to boost firm's retention rate

Jul 25 2014 1:04pm

The 8 most delightful vac scheme jollies of the summer

The City of London’s top law firms have, once again, been treating their vac schemers to some wonderful perks that may or may not prove to be a regular feature of their future lawyer lives

Jul 25 2014 9:22am

There is a real billboard advertising the services of Saul Goodman’s junior lawyer self — and the phone number works

Seemingly innocuous lawyer advert is in fact a clever publicity stunt for Breaking Bad spin-off

Jul 24 2014 2:03pm

God orders student to go to law school — but she wants us to foot the bill

A young woman in South Carolina launches a novel crowd-funding bid to cover degree fees after the Almighty provides career planning advice

Jul 23 2014 12:28pm

Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices

Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union

Jul 22 2014 12:06pm

Law students are pompous, anal bores with ‘booming voices’ — claims BuzzFeed as it evaluates undergraduate personalities

Journalists at London office of social news website BuzzFeed think people who study law are much less cool than them

Jul 21 2014 3:04pm

Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’

"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.

Jul 21 2014 9:18am

Law lecturer lip sync battles are a thing

Lip sync battles -- as popularised by British comic Stephen Merchant, whose classic lip sync performance on the Jimmy Fallon show has become a YouTube classic -- have finally reached the law

Jul 18 2014 3:48pm

9 things not to do in a pupillage interview (if you’re an interviewer)

An anonymous bar wannabe draws on his recent pupillage interview experience to deliver some lessons to chambers.

Jul 15 2014 9:27am

Wannabe solicitor’s pigeon selfie job plea goes viral — responses roll in

Facebook post by Liverpool John Moores law graduate has over 7,000 likes and almost 5,000 shares -- and sees her inundated with responses.

Jul 14 2014 10:42am

Oxbridge and Russell Group graduates dominate latest trainee intake of top law firms

21% of 2013 trainees at top 30 law firms are Oxbridge, 58% are Russell Group -- only 15% went to other unis, with 6% studying abroad.

Jul 14 2014 9:20am

Networking: it’s crucial for law students — and you might pull

Aspiring barrister Amy Woolfson shares the wisdom she has gleaned while honing her networking skills at law events

Jul 11 2014 12:32pm

Judge Dread’s coming to town

A chap standing for the bench in the home of country music bears some striking resemblances to the man with the Lawgiver pistol and purveyor of summary executions

Jul 8 2014 11:47am

LPC applications fall by 10% despite 8% rise in training contracts

Decline in LPC applications suggests that students don't believe recent increase in training contract numbers will be sustained.

Jul 7 2014 10:41am

7 spectacular legal typos

When jargon goes very wrong indeed...

Jul 3 2014 12:58pm

Pupil master cracks Jimmy Savile ‘mitigating circumstances’ gag on student advice forum — nobody laughs

TheStudentRoom message board removes barrister's ill-judged quip...after we got a screenshot.

Jul 3 2014 9:06am

Chambers beware – mini-pupillages and the confidentiality horror

Bar Council warns barristers in 22-page guidance that mini-pupils should sign undertakings before arriving at chambers

Jul 2 2014 12:18pm

We need to talk about paralegals

The children of the financial crisis could pose a danger to law firms if their ambitions aren't accommodated.

Jun 30 2014 11:13am