Tag: Students
How far would you go for silence in the library?
Court hears how law student lay in street with a noose around his neck in protest at noise in library, having also threatened hunger strike and suicide.
The emerging etiquette of the training contract video interview
How best to present yourself to potential employers through a laptop camera.
‘I worry I’m wasting my hero’s heart at law school’
Heroic law student reveals inner struggle to PostSecret.
12 alternative approaches to law revision
Because it can help to mix things up...
DWF launches video interview — doubling number of wannabe trainees it considers
Exclusive: DWF becomes the first big UK law firm to incorporate video into its training contract interview process.
Take a deep breath and do some colouring in
An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.
Google autocomplete reveals people’s true feelings about lawyers
Hot arrogant scum: The British public's view of solicitors, barristers and law students is rather confused.
A law-themed drinking game called ‘Hammertime’ has been created
Could "Hammertime", which was first popularised among Australian law students, go global this summer?
Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.
We’re selling a limited number of ‘Eat Sleep Law Repeat’ T-shirts
Poor wannabe lawyers have it so much worse than other students, as Legal Cheek duo Thomas Connelly and Lucy Pether (pictured) well know...
Top QCs slam Pistorius prosecutor’s cross-examination style
Don't imitate approach of Gerrie Nel, urge three silks on Twitter.
Paralegal who sent takedown notice to remove Wonga parody meme forced into internet hiding
Wonga's legal team hand recent University of Law graduate the dubious privilege of getting an image parodying the company removed from Twitter. Backlash focuses on him, rather than senior members of legal team.
Who’s been pinching textbooks from Gray’s Inn?
Inn of Court issues issues Facebook plea after textbooks go missing.
Law student jailed for dealing crack cocaine
Hertfordshire University first-year law student is sent to prison for three years this morning, after disastrous sequence of events set in motion by his lack of money.
If you look like Saul Goodman, why not dress like Saul Goodman?
Snapchat photo of a man who looks and dresses like Breaking Bad lawyer Saul Goodman goes viral after screenshot appears on Facebook.
This is what happens when a group of law students have a conversation about cats on Facebook
It began on Sunday with an inquiry by a US law student about the possibility of using cats to combat a mouse infestation. And ended yesterday amid a storm of legal threats.
8 historical moments as captured on Gray’s Inn’s very cool Facebook timeline
The Armada, Shakespeare and Blitz devastation: as experienced by the Inns of Court.
Infographic: why it’s really hard to land a job through the Pupillage Gateway
Places on the BPTC massively outnumber available jobs on this year's Pupillage Gateway, especially in the regions.
Pupil barrister live-tweets his own case
A Bahamas-based baby barrister broke new ground on social media yesterday.
Number of tenancies at the Bar plunges
Update: Incredible 64% fall in tenancies is based on incorrect data say embarrassed regulators, as they issue an apology.
What magic circle trainees earned in 1988
When adjusted to take into account inflation, £11,000-a-year Clifford Chance trainee salary equates to just £24,988 today.