Tag: Students

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...

Oct 23 2013 9:03am

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,...

Oct 22 2013 10:14am

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...

Oct 21 2013 10:24am

‘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...

Oct 18 2013 10:40am

‘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...

Oct 17 2013 8:28am

This is how broke criminal barristers are

A divorce law barrister has posted a series of tweets laying bare just how broke...

Oct 15 2013 9:10am

‘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...

Oct 11 2013 11:04am

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...

Oct 10 2013 1:29pm

The 16 most amusing Queen’s Counsel cartoons ever

As The Times’ Queen’s Counsel cartoon turns 20 — and marks its anniversary with a...

Oct 10 2013 10:27am

‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’

Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...

Oct 4 2013 11:27am

‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’

Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...

Oct 4 2013 11:27am

Law student posts semi-naked selfies on Twitter in bid to fund legal textbook costs

A London-based law student has come up with an unconventional way of funding the cost...

Oct 4 2013 9:00am

Exclusive interview: Founder of Facebook sensation ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ reveals all (apart from his identity)

If the Midlands-based LLB student behind ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ was to mobilise the...

Oct 3 2013 11:39am

BPP boss tweets — then deletes — photo of him and ‘BPP Law School parent’ Tony Blair

Yesterday BPP chief Carl Lygo tweeted this photo of himself grinning next to a less...

Oct 3 2013 9:06am

Barrister crosses that not-so-fine line between ‘fearless advocacy’ and ‘courtroom anarchy’

The juicy content of the final Court of Appeal judgment of outgoing Lord Chief Justice...

Oct 1 2013 1:12pm

‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’

After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...

Sep 27 2013 9:38am

Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week

It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually...

Sep 26 2013 9:45am

Law student told he can’t board EasyJet flight after slamming airline on Twitter

A Strathclyde University PhD law student has sparked a PR nightmare for easyJet after a...

Sep 25 2013 12:38pm

The legal profession’s first tweets

It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...

Sep 25 2013 9:48am

Podcast: ‘Should I call off my hunt for a training contract?’

A year after finishing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Queen Mary University of London...

Sep 24 2013 1:27pm

Starting law school #Pippatips

The BPP Law School Twitter account has spent the last week tweeting some of the...

Sep 24 2013 9:37am