Author: alex
Tooks Chambers to be dissolved
After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures,...
There is a real lawyer called Saul Goodman!
Saul Goodman, the famously dodgy criminal lawyer in hit TV series Breaking Bad, has a...
Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?
A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice...
The charmingly contrarian world of Grayling’s lone solicitor supporter
Yesterday Yorkshire-based high street solicitor John Wilson wrote a piece for The Times in which...
Law student alienates coursemates with bizarre mass email berating them for eating in lectures — coursemates leak email…
A Canadian law student has got off to a bad start to the academic year...
Lawyer bills 29 hours in one day
A US lawyer is facing disciplinary proceedings after billing for a 29-hour day. According to...
Pupillage-less BPTC grad among the ‘25 most influential Londoners aged under 25′
There’s no doubt that Gabrielle Turnquest‘s achievement in becoming the youngest person to be called...
Exeter University confirms that it was one of its professors who had his law lecture remixed
As universities return for autumn, beware, lecturers, of the smartphone-wielding student with video-editing skills. And,...
Video: Clifford Chance trainee in ‘f*cking people over for money’ YouTube boast
A Clifford Chance trainee is in serious trouble after he was filmed boasting about his...
Event: If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
On the evening of Thursday 10th October six authors of posts in Legal Cheek‘s ‘If...
Don’t you step into my courtroom wearing blue suede trainers, judge tells lawyer
Recently we reported on the judge who sent a defendant to the cells for wearing...
Incorrect tweet forces BPP to reveal how many of its grads bagged training contracts
Lawyer2B has a piece today detailing the employment rates of the biggest Legal Practice Course...
Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday’s The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless —...
Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City law firm
Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner....
Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter
Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of...
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...
BPP sends LPC transcripts and record cards to the wrong students
Exclusive: BPP Law School students are raging after a breakdown of their Legal Practice Course...
The perils of representing yourself in court as a barrister
Salford-based barrister Andrew Rosmarine has given a demonstration of how representing yourself in court can...
Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit bottoms
A Crown Court judge sent a criminal to the cells for nearly three hours because...
Video: Judge punches judge in Mexican courtroom brawl
A senior Mexican judge is facing possible impeachment after he attacked fellow judges during a...