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Kaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course
Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.
Riverview Law to offer 10 training contracts and 10 apprenticeships this year
Exclusive: New legal market entrant to take on first ever trainees after being granted Alternative Business Structure (ABS) license.
‘We are not doing a Tooks’ says Argent as it prepares to ‘merge’ with Goldsmith Chambers
Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts.
Top QC offers George Clooney 14 tips on being married to a barrister
The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin.
Barrister to stand trial accused of falsely notifying British government of Olympics nuclear attack
Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning.
Doughty Street barrister who topped ‘Bar hottie’ list gets engaged to George Clooney
Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together?
How far would you go for silence in the library?
Court hears how law student lay in street with a noose around his neck in protest at noise in library, having also threatened hunger strike and suicide.
The emerging etiquette of the training contract video interview
How best to present yourself to potential employers through a laptop camera.
‘I worry I’m wasting my hero’s heart at law school’
Heroic law student reveals inner struggle to PostSecret.
Fancy a chat with Robbie Savage?
Leeds law firm Blacks hires Match of the Day pundit Robbie Savage and publishes "direct line" to ex-Premiership star on its website.
DWF launches video interview — doubling number of wannabe trainees it considers
Exclusive: DWF becomes the first big UK law firm to incorporate video into its training contract interview process.
The 8 best law firm names in England
Amazingly, these law firms are all real.
‘They call me Gerrie Nel and I am mad as hell’: Now Pistorius prosecutor gets his own rap
Following the hip hop creations spawned in tribute to Oscar Pistorius' defence lawyer, Barry Roux, a track has been recorded in honour of tough-talking Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor in the case.
Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.
We’re selling a limited number of ‘Eat Sleep Law Repeat’ T-shirts
Poor wannabe lawyers have it so much worse than other students, as Legal Cheek duo Thomas Connelly and Lucy Pether (pictured) well know...
Top QCs slam Pistorius prosecutor’s cross-examination style
Don't imitate approach of Gerrie Nel, urge three silks on Twitter.
Taxi driver films himself rebuffing lawyer’s sexual advances — litigation ensues
Video of drunken US lawyer seducing taxi driver leads to three legal disputes.
Paralegal who sent takedown notice to remove Wonga parody meme forced into internet hiding
Wonga's legal team hand recent University of Law graduate the dubious privilege of getting an image parodying the company removed from Twitter. Backlash focuses on him, rather than senior members of legal team.
Law student jailed for dealing crack cocaine
Hertfordshire University first-year law student is sent to prison for three years this morning, after disastrous sequence of events set in motion by his lack of money.
Blogging barrister refers himself to the Bar Standards Board after committing ‘very serious’ contempt of court
Henry Hendron's "ringside" coverage of the Nigel Evans trial lands him in hot water.
Legal pic of the day
Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption (in the orange scarf) keeping it real on the Tube.