Tag: Students
Training contract offers: how they once looked
Over the weekend BKRW Solicitors’ Oliver Kirk tweeted this picture of his training contract offer...
Law student sends multiple-claused note to neighbours warning them of party
Subclauses (i) and (ii) of clause (b) from this note sent over the weekend are...
‘The whole chargeable hours thing was a bit of a pain in the backside’
There’s a reason not many lawyers move back into practice after going in-house, says Mark...
Solicitor at top corporate firm is flogging GDL and LPC notes to hard-up students
EXCLUSIVE: A solicitor at leading law firm Kennedys is running a sideline selling law school...
Undercover audio: Oxford Uni law student admits plan to cheat in Union election
An Oxford law student hasn’t done his job prospects any favours after being caught on...
Advice: ‘I’m struggling to survive in the arts and yearn to fight the good fight — should I try to become a barrister?’
The other day I received this email from an Oxford University law graduate…
Nottingham barrister Matthew O’Grady triumphs in YourBarristerBoyfriend regional hottie list
Family law barrister Matthew O’Grady (pictured below) of Nottingham’s St Mary’s Chambers has scooped top...
‘Fit sexy law lecturer’ of the week
Spotted on London Craigslist… Click on screenshot to enlarge. Image via Meme Crunch Follow @legalcheek...
How cycling made me a better lawyer
If he knew then what he knows now, ‘Cycling Silk’ Martin Porter QC would have...
BPP offers free LPC to future Bar grads who don’t get pupillage — but excludes its current BPTC students from the deal
Late yesterday afternoon an interesting tweet appeared… Exciting news! BPP BPTC Career Guarantee- if you...
BPP offers free LPC to future Bar grads who don’t get pupillage — but excludes its current BPTC students from the deal
Late yesterday afternoon an interesting tweet appeared… Exciting news! BPP BPTC Career Guarantee- if you...
10 things you wouldn’t expect to find in a law textbook
Legal textbooks hold all sorts of surprises… A land law textbook dedicated to…’Cornflake’. Who dedicates...
‘Nobody in their right mind would advise a son or daughter to become a criminal barrister,’ says top judge
A retiring High Court judge has spoken of his despair at the state of the...
Edinburgh University law students cause outrage after ‘blacking up’ as Somali pirates for fancy dress pub crawl
A group of law students are at the heart of a race row after they...
‘I applied to every firm in my home town for a training contract and they all rejected me without interview’
Rejection has proved a source of motivation for BPP chief Carl Lygo on his journey...
Preliminary hearing takes place in a Magistrates Court car park with accused sitting in a taxi
On Tuesday, in what is believed to be a legal first, an entire Magistrates’ Court —...
Why are so many law students selling their pants online?
It wouldn’t be very scientific to attempt to draw conclusions about the indebted state of...
Why money for pupil barristers is too tight not to mention
It is hard to support a young professional’s lifestyle on just £12,000-a-year, writes OccupyTheInns One...
The 18 stages of the LPC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) It...
Pupillage-less Bar grad can’t call himself a ‘barrister’ anymore after he endangered helicopter with laser pen
An “unregistered barrister” has been struck off for the somewhat unconventional professional faux pas of...
‘If you recognise fear in yourself you are more able to see it in others’
At first, Caspar Glyn QC assumed the terror he felt before appearing in court was...