Visitors to the website of US lawyer Carl B Grant (pictured below) are greeted by a tuneful R'n'B tribute to the South Carolina-based litigator. "Call Carl-B-Grant, when you're in trouble, call Carl-B-Grant, he's on the double, Carl B Grant: a lawyer that'll fight for you," croons an unidentified R'n'B songstress during the chorus. But it's arguably the rap section in the second verse that makes the track so frighteningly catchy...
Meet Bowie Jane, an Australian "lawyer by day, pop singer by night" with a host of BBC radio gigs booked in the UK this year. Jane (pictured below) says she practises criminal law, but refuses to disclose which firm she works for or her real name...
Mike Shipwash (aka 'Lawyer Mike') is an American sole practitioner specialising in personal injury law, who over the last few years has wowed YouTube with a series of R&B-infused raps. With their terrible lyrics ("rain: that sweet precipitation coming down from the skies, it's like a nectar") and cheesy videos, the tracks have developed a cult following. Already Tennessee-based Shipwash's latest, 'It's Our Time', an upbeat reflection on the year ahead which he unveiled last week, has almost 30,000 views...
As legal world-watchers will doubtless be aware, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree recently traded in the rockstar life in order to follow his lawyer dream – qualifying in September as a solicitor at white collar crime firm Kingsley Napley.
But it seems that the corporate legal fast-lane has left Rowntree hankering for the comforting mundanity of his previous existence. So he’s launched an alter ego called 'DJ Dark Destroyer' to perform at leading nightclubs across Europe...
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Cathryn Kozlowski focused on getting top music qualifications rather than top A-levels, but now she wants to be a lawyer and is finding that firms hold this against her
Almost every training contract and vac scheme application now begins with a filtering process, whereby you must state whether you achieved the usual minimum A-level requirement of AAB.
If you haven’t achieved this, you are typically asked whether you wish to continue with your application, bearing in mind that your application doesn’t meet the firm’s requirements. So, my question is: why are A-levels still so important when it comes to legal applications? After all, most applicants completed their A-levels over half a decade ago.
It's clear that with increasing numbers of applicants, firms need some sort of filter to manage the flow of applications. It is also understandable that A-levels can provide evidence that an applicant is able to consistently achieve highly, and is able to remain focussed throughout their education. However, not every individual wishing to pursue law, for whatever reason, has achieved the minimum of AAB.
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