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There is a real billboard advertising the services of Saul Goodman’s junior lawyer self — and the phone number works
Seemingly innocuous lawyer advert is in fact a clever publicity stunt for Breaking Bad spin-off
Throwback Thursday: Lord Denning and Noddy on ‘Jim’ll Fix It’
Following the popularity of the video of Slaughter and May in 1981, we have continued our trawl of YouTube and unearthed a 1985 episode of ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ starring Lord Denning and Noddy — which thankfully has a happy ending
Morning round-up: Thursday 24 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Solicitors’ leader smarms up to new Attorney General and Solicitor General despite no other lawyer having heard of them
While the rest of the legal profession scratches its head in bafflement at the elevation of Jeremy Wright and Robert Buckland, the Law Society President tweets fawning congratulations
God orders student to go to law school — but she wants us to foot the bill
A young woman in South Carolina launches a novel crowd-funding bid to cover degree fees after the Almighty provides career planning advice
Let’s break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels
Even a respected broadsheet falls into the trap of thinking British judges bang away like their Yankee counterparts
Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character
Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners
Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices
Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union
Morning round-up: Tuesday 22 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
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What your parents say when you tell them you want to quit law to become an artist
Law students are pompous, anal bores with ‘booming voices’ — claims BuzzFeed as it evaluates undergraduate personalities
Journalists at London office of social news website BuzzFeed think people who study law are much less cool than them
Video: lawyer attacks judge with a fly swatter before being punched by fellow advocate
CCTV footage of extraordinary Kazakhstan courtroom bust-up becomes viral hit
Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’
“Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.
Morning round-up: Monday 21 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Law lecturer lip sync battles are a thing
Lip sync battles — as popularised by British comic Stephen Merchant, whose classic lip sync performance on the Jimmy Fallon show has become a YouTube classic — have finally reached the law
Transcript emerges of huge bust-up between judge and ‘breathtakingly arrogant’ barrister that has shocked the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has torn into a criminal barrister and referred him to the Bar Standards Board for getting into a slanging match with a Crown Court judge — but what did the pair actually say to each other?
Barrister speaks of shock at ‘penis’ pattern on Milkybar
Barrister Robin Jacobs goes public with claim that Milky Bar has a penis shape moulded into it — sparking Nestlé response
Morning round-up: Friday 18 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
14 insightful interactions from our Twitter discussion about bagging a training contract
The best bits from yesterday’s #TCapps Q&A, featuring Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors, Kaplan Law School and David Allen Green — amongst a host of other experts and wannabe lawyers.
Bar Hottie 2014: 1 Hare Court’s Nicholas Wilkinson is crowned ‘London’s hottest barrister’ in a list stacked with new talent
Divorce lawyer Wilkinson wins; last year’s top hottie Patrick Hennessey down to fourth place; 17 new entrants to 21-strong list
Morning round-up: Thursday 17 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker
Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins.
Just who is Jeremy Wright? Lawyers have never heard of new attorney general
Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them
In his own words: solicitor behind the viral 1981 Slaughter and May video on life in the good old days
James Mitchell — whose video of Slaughter and May 33 years ago went viral after being unearthed by Legal Cheek — recalls magic circle life in the dark ages.
Morning round-up: Wednesday 16 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Training contracts in Wales — get ready for a spot of hazing
High street law firm newbies kitted out in silly clobber while the skateboarder from Dirty Sanchez takes over business development.
9 things not to do in a pupillage interview (if you’re an interviewer)
An anonymous bar wannabe draws on his recent pupillage interview experience to deliver some lessons to chambers.
Morning round-up: Tuesday 15 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
We are holding a myth-busting Twitter Q&A about getting a training contract today at 1pm
Advice from, amongst others, Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors and David Allen Green in hour-long session that is open to all.
Dinah Rose QC to Barrister Hottie Experts: ‘Keep me out of your bloody lists’
Top Blackstone Chambers silk fires warning to Your Barrister Boyfriend duo as she joins Twitter ahead of Barrister Hottie 2014.
Wannabe solicitor’s pigeon selfie job plea goes viral — responses roll in
Facebook post by Liverpool John Moores law graduate has over 7,000 likes and almost 5,000 shares — and sees her inundated with responses.
Oxbridge and Russell Group graduates dominate latest trainee intake of top law firms
21% of 2013 trainees at top 30 law firms are Oxbridge, 58% are Russell Group — only 15% went to other unis, with 6% studying abroad.
Morning round-up: Monday 14 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Networking: it’s crucial for law students — and you might pull
Aspiring barrister Amy Woolfson shares the wisdom she has gleaned while honing her networking skills at law events
Law Society undercuts Wetherspoons in bid to become cheapest boozer in London
Calling all students, trainee solicitors, hard-pressed pupils, struggling legal aid lawyers, general dole loafers and functioning alcoholics: the Law Society is flogging pints of Stella for £2.85!
Morning round-up: Friday 11 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Revealed: Where the stars of that 1981 Slaughter and May video are today
33 years on, one Slaughter and May home video star is still at the firm, another is at Herbert Smith Freehills, while the solicitor behind the camera has left the law altogether.
8 key moments from ‘Come Dine With Me’ with ‘Britain’s top divorce lawyer’ Ayesha Vardag and her husband
The Queen of Pre-nups Ayesha Vardag and her new hubby Stephen Bence — both of London law firm Vardags — made an unexpected appearance as contestants on hit Channel Four show ‘Couples Come Dine With Me’ this week.
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- 1 Morning round-up: Wednesday 23 July
- 2 God orders student to go to law school — but she wants us to foot the bill
- 3 Throwback Thursday: Lord Denning and Noddy on 'Jim’ll Fix It'
- 4 Let's break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels
- 5 Solicitors’ leader smarms up to new Attorney General and Solicitor General despite no other lawyer having heard of them
- 1 Transcript emerges of huge bust-up between judge and 'breathtakingly arrogant' barrister that has shocked the Court of Appeal
- 2 Just who is Jeremy Wright? Lawyers have never heard of new attorney general
- 3 Law students are pompous, anal bores with ‘booming voices’ — claims BuzzFeed as it evaluates undergraduate personalities
- 4 Let's break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels
- 5 Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker
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