Tag: Students
A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day
Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today
An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day
Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle
The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
How has it come to this?
Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying -- but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper
Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
Life as a solicitor or barrister isn't always what it seems
Can you help find missing Nottingham Uni law student Tom Nixon?
Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing law student
Research: young barristers are much cleverer than older ones
New figures give weight to the suspicion that the senior bar is full of not-so-bright slackers from privileged backgrounds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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