Tag: Students
Does The Criminal Bar Really Still Look Down On The CPS?
Whenever I write about the criminal Bar these days, I find myself thinking of that...
Allen & Overy Solicitor Says It’s OK To Lie On Your CV
Allen & Overy solicitor Sheila Fahy has unwittingly provided wannabe magic circle lawyers with an...
Advocacy Standards: ‘The Unsatisfactory Must Go’ (But They Probably Won’t)
The Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) is ostensibly designed to ensure that criminal advocates...
ADVICE: ‘Which Training Contract Offer Should I Accept?!’
UPDATE 4pm: XXX chose the London firm LPC graduate XXX XXXX (name removed) is facing...
‘Describe Your Parents Relationship’: Law Firm’s Interview Question To Training Contract Candidate
EXCLUSIVE: You hear all sorts of stories about partners asking outrageous, Borat-style questions during TC...
Which Legal Tweeters Have Bought Their Twitter Followers?
Until I read recently that 92% of US politician Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers had been...
From Halliwells To BLG To Clyde & Co To Buddhism In Two Years: A Trainee’s Journey In A Shaky Legal Market
Marc Piano says Halliwells’ collapse contributed to his decision to pursue some time out practising...
Restricting The BPTC To Students Who’ve Already Bagged a Pupillage Wouldn’t Breach Competition Law…
…but it would put pressure on chambers to fund the course – and could lead...
Chambers Failure To Provide Interview Feedback And Travel Costs Is ‘Unacceptable’
For most people, summer means festivals and perhaps a few weeks in Ibiza. Not so...
Are Barristers The Doctors Of The Legal Profession, And Solicitors The Nurses?
Last week there was outrage on The Student Room when a poster likened barristers to...
‘If The Firm Was a Person, How Would You Describe Them?
Now that he’s finished the GDL, David Woodall finally has some time to sample the...
PODCAST: Laying Down On a Bed Of Norton Roses
Success can turn on the smallest of things. Cambridge graduate Marta Sanchez (pictured left) completed...
Farewell Silk, Now Time To Come Up With a New Mythology For The Bar
The defining images in the second series of BBC legal drama Silk – which drew...
‘I’m Worried I Might Lose The Lucrative Part-Time Office Manager Job That Has Kept Me Afloat Through Law School’
Dear Auntie Em, To date, I have just about made ends meet at law school...
Dear Lady Justice Hallett, Don’t Be Insecure, You Don’t Need Make-Up…
Judging by her blue eye makeup, I’d say that Lady Justice Hallett (pictured) is no...
Aston Carter Claims BPP Law School Described Its Pay-To-Be-A-Paralegal Scheme As ‘Novel And Inspiring’
Last month, Legal Cheek exclusively revealed that Aston Carter Solicitors was asking law graduates to...
PODCAST: Be Yourself, Not Some ‘Made In Chelsea’ Clone
With Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge on yet another foreign jolly, Bircham Dyson Bell lawyer...
Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis
The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that...
Another Facebook ‘Reverse Auction’ For An LPC Place Ends Instantly – With Minimal Savings For Winning Bidder
The National College of Legal Training (NCLT)’s first Facebook ‘reverse auction’, which took place last...
How To Go From Corporate Law Into Human Rights Academia
Most people don’t stay at the law firms they join as trainees all that long....