Tag: Students
18 year-old becomes youngest ever barrister after passing BPTC
Gabrielle Turnquest, 18, will become the youngest person in the history of the English and...
Barrister puts wig and gown on eBay and issues dramatic warning to Bar wannabes
A junior barrister has ended her career in dramatic style by placing her “Ede and...
A wannabe lawyer’s social media strategy to land a job through the showcasing of his buff physique
Want to make yourself stand out from the crowd of other jobless lawyers? Well, you...
How should chambers and law firms reject applicants?
Recently we received this email from a disgruntled pupillage-seeker… How did the pupillage-seeker know they...
‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ reveals 5 more ‘barrister hotties (or notties?)’ nominated by readers
The authors of the seminal ’21 hottest barristers in London’ — hosted on the YourBarristerBoyfriend Tumblr...
Quitting a law degree because of a disappointing first year: a good idea?
Last week I got this email. My response is below. Dear Anonymous Lancaster University Student,...
How anonymous social media sensations can avoid getting sued
Amid the thrills of YourBarristerBoyfriend’s sensational arrival on the scene last week, there were —...
‘You need an offer…but you only need one’
It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and...
Legal job website of the week
“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...
How to tell your parents that you failed your exams
Simple: present them with some even worse news to soften the blow… Hat tip to...
All the ‘common sense’ BCAT does is increase the cost of qualifying as a barrister
Having just sat the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) — which must be taken by...
‘If I knew then what I know now… I’d be on my hands and knees begging my younger self not to become a criminal barrister’
The criminal Bar no longer offers a path to a nice middle class lifestyle, but...
‘We don’t even want to know your grades’: Is this the future of hiring pupil barristers?
Exclusive: Outer Temple Chambers has launched a new approach to graduate recruitment, which it is...
Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown
On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...
‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’
After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...
Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?
Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that...
Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges to rival training contract
For the first time since 2008 there will be no ‘legal executive of the year’...
The Guardian’s advice to this wannabe lawyer is really bad
The ‘work’ section of Saturday’s The Guardian featured a plea for help from a wannabe...
Unfunded pupillages are back
For ten years now, it has been compulsory for chambers to pay their pupils. But...
Save UK Justice petition gets its 100,000th signature – pressure on government goes up a notch
A major House of Commons debate on the government’s proposals to reform legal aid is...
Don’t choose a career because it ‘sounds cool’ — but do cool things after you’ve chosen it
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...