Tag: News

‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’

Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...

May 17 2013 2:10pm

‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

May 17 2013 9:41am

‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’

A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...

May 16 2013 1:37pm

Lawyer commissions R’n’B ballad in his honour – then plays it on loop on his website

Visitors to the website of US lawyer Carl B Grant are greeted by a tuneful...

May 16 2013 9:01am

Wannabe Lord Chief Justices must pen 2,000 word essay to land top judge gig

In a departure from the traditional “tap on the shoulder” method of recruitment, applicants for...

May 15 2013 1:20pm

BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...

May 15 2013 9:43am

How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it

As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time...

May 14 2013 1:46pm

When a covering letter crosses the line from charmingly quirky to wacky

In a tough graduate law job market, there’s an argument for injecting a little personality...

May 13 2013 11:22am

How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?

Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...

May 13 2013 9:20am

‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

May 10 2013 12:04pm

Argent Chambers barrister Jerry Hayes in BBC Question Time nightmare

Hopes were high when it was announced that criminal barrister and former Tory MP Jerry...

May 10 2013 9:44am

BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’

Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...

May 9 2013 3:02pm

Judicial quote of the week: ‘Don’t be a blockhead’

As he sentenced the actor who voiced Charlie Brown in cartoon Peanuts (for threatening his...

May 9 2013 2:01pm

Hardwicke Chambers ‘shocked by the views’ of barrister who called for age of consent to be lowered to 13

Yesterday, Spiked published a highly controversial article about Operation Yewtree by Hardwicke Chambers barrister Barbara...

May 9 2013 8:29am

Westminster School auctions a mini-pupillage – current bid £750

Struggling to secure work experience in the ultra-competitive environment of the Bar? Well, thanks to...

May 8 2013 4:15pm

Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom

A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...

May 8 2013 11:14am

Dynamo Legal founder’s eyebrows: a Twitter tribute

The new series of The Apprentice began last night, giving the world its first glimpse...

May 8 2013 9:20am

Guildhall Chambers becomes latest set to stop offering criminal pupillages

Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers has followed London set Charter Chambers in withdrawing its criminal pupillage for...

May 7 2013 8:45am

‘You pay a price for putting your head above the parapet’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

May 3 2013 10:52am

‘I’m the king of the world!’ DLA Piper hires entire cruise ship for partner meeting

As legal aid implodes and training contract numbers plummet to the lowest level since 1999,...

May 3 2013 9:29am

Pupillage application deadline extended (again) to Thursday 9 May

The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous...

May 2 2013 4:50pm