Bag a pupillage and you’ve made it into the secret garden of the bar; fail and you’re just another BPTC grad sucker — no wonder wannabe barristers are nervous today
A window into wannabe barristers’ torment on Pupillage Offer Day
Exclusive photo: ex-magic circle senior partner ‘blacked-up’ as a Zulu Warrior
A Slaughter and May 1979 comedy skit amazingly featured a blacked-up lawyer playing a character applying for a training contract — he later became the firm’s senior partner, stepping down in 2008
Morning round-up: Friday 1 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day
Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle
The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
How has it come to this?
Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf sale’ sign all day?
Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor
Morning round-up: Thursday 31 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Legal hurdles
Judge told barrister to nip down to Chinese takeaway — for an interpreter
Glitch in outsourcing services blamed for lack of Mandarin speaker in trial at Cardiff Crown Court
Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying — but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper
Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become a luxury hotel
Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement’s foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues
Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm
The craze of getting the general public to finance a business — and run the risk of failure — has taken a giant leap in the legal profession
Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
Life as a solicitor or barrister isn’t always what it seems
Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Can you help find missing Nottingham Uni law student Tom Nixon?
Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing law student
Research: young barristers are much cleverer than older ones
New figures give weight to the suspicion that the senior bar is full of not-so-bright slackers from privileged backgrounds
The spiritual home of Wednesbury Unreasonableness is for sale
West Midlands cinema at heart of Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp goes on the market
Morning round-up: Monday 28 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
This sign for the toilets in the Royal Courts of Justice goes beyond everyday sexism
Female advocates, male non-advocates and wheelchair users are all flummoxed by this sign for the toilets at the Royal Courts of Justice
Mayer Brown confirms drop in training contract numbers from 20 to 15 since 2012
Reduction in trainee numbers has taken place over two years as part of a bid to boost firm’s retention rate
The 8 most delightful vac scheme jollies of the summer
The City of London’s top law firms have, once again, been treating their vac schemers to some wonderful perks that may or may not prove to be a regular feature of their future lawyer lives
Morning round-up: Friday 25 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Salt and battery
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.
Legal pic of the day
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
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- 1 Exclusive photo: ex-magic circle senior partner 'blacked-up' as a Zulu Warrior
- 2 A window into wannabe barristers' torment on Pupillage Offer Day
- 3 Morning round-up: Friday 1 August
- 4 Death of the training contract -- solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
- 5 The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
- 1 Death of the training contract -- solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
- 2 Dismissed: Wannabe Barrister's Claim That Minimum Pupillage Award Is Discriminatory To Black Africans
- 3 Exclusive photo: ex-magic circle senior partner 'blacked-up' as a Zulu Warrior
- 4 Research: young barristers are much cleverer than older ones
- 5 Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
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