Tag: Students
Will lawyers fall for the government’s ‘wholesale privatisation of justice’ PR trick?
During the consultation over the scrapping of the trainee solicitor minimum salary last year, the...
Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?
Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...
Video: the Downfall of Chris Grayling
Justice secretary Chris Grayling has become the latest victim of the Downfall meme, in which...
Obscenity Lawyer: How to create a niche doing something you’re passionate about
As you’d expect, Myles Jackman – aka “Obscenity Lawyer” – has some great stories. My...
‘Never be too rigid in your thinking’
My careers guidance went something like this, writes Silverman Sherliker partner Jennie Kreser in the...
6 animals that look like Chris Grayling
Some have lampooned Chris Grayling for his lack of a legal qualification. Others have sought...
Going, going, gone – to the person with £2,660 to blow on legal work experience
Westminster School has completed its controversial auction of work experience at the criminal Bar, with...
In pictures: today’s legal aid protest
This morning’s demonstration against the government’s legal aid proposals saw 500 plus lawyers take to...
‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’
The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...
Legal Tumblrs: Because lawyers can do LOLcats too
Tumblr, the home of the animated gif and the LOLcat, is suddenly everywhere following its...
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to...
‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’
Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...
‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...
How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it
As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time...
When a covering letter crosses the line from charmingly quirky to wacky
In a tough graduate law job market, there’s an argument for injecting a little personality...
‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...
Westminster School auctions a mini-pupillage – current bid £750
Struggling to secure work experience in the ultra-competitive environment of the Bar? Well, thanks to...
Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom
A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...