Tag: Students
What do Bar graduates think of the new Inns of Court scheme to create ‘dozens’ of extra pupillages next year?
The new Inns of Court subsidy scheme to help publicly-funded chambers offer more pupillages caused...
‘Do we need more law courses?’ asks top QC as new BPTC course opens with pupillage numbers at lowest level in a generation
The fact that pupillage numbers are at their lowest for many years hasn’t stopped BPP...
Law students release legal parody of Lorde’s number 1 hit ‘Royals’
Since Lorde’s number one hit ‘Royals’ stormed the charts last month, it has inspired a...
‘There are moments in court when you wish the ground would swallow you up’
9-12 Bell Yard head of chambers Mukul Chawla QC wishes he’d been able to make...
Who in their right mind would wear a BPP baseball jacket?
BPP University has launched a branded clothing range, enabling proud law students at the institution...
Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession...
Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC entry threshold ‘has to be higher’
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too...
9 Instagram photos that law firms wouldn’t use in their graduate recruitment brochures
Instagram — and the growing phenomenon of the law firm hashtag — is threatening to...
Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been...
Cash-strapped BPTC students turn to practitioners texts for fitness needs
A group of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students has shown how wannabe lawyers can...
‘If I had known what strange paths life can take you down, I would have been far less depressed at my prospects’
Does it really matter if you don’t know what to do with your life? Perhaps...
Pupillage-less Bar grad who used ‘barrister’ title to commit massive fraud is struck off
A Bar graduate who failed to secure pupillage has been stripped of the right to...
The 19 stages of the BPTC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...
Law student YouTube sensations mock Snapchat addiction of fellow legal hopefuls
The law students behind the viral parody of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines have made a...
Wannabe lawyer places photo of his penis online in protest at ‘tidal wave of social media firings’
Over the summer US law graduate Brian Zulberti achieved international fame after posting a bizarre,...
Could competing in a beauty contest help you bag a training contract?
A Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduate who has reached the finals of Miss Great Britain...
‘The painful truth is that there’s a lot of apathy and incompetence in the workplace’
Leading general counsel Tom Kilroy has, over time, learned to combine open-mindedness with a hard-headed...
‘Dozens’ of extra 2014 pupillages could be created by new Inns of Court subsidy scheme
The Inns of Court are to cover 50% of the cost of some pupillage awards...
This is how broke criminal barristers are
A divorce law barrister has posted a series of tweets laying bare just how broke...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
This evening’s event is fully booked — but any returns will be available on the...