Tag: Students
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...
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...