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Obscenity Lawyer: How to create a niche doing something you’re passionate about

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As you'd expect, Myles Jackman – aka "Obscenity Lawyer" – has some great stories. My personal favourite is the one about a man he represented who had the largest collection of porn ever found in the country – including objects so unwieldy that they required the police to use six six-foot high pallets when confiscating them.

But it's the quirky way Jackman has carved out a niche doing something he's passionate about – and his belief that this generation of rookie lawyers can do the same – that I found most interesting...
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How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it

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As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time can sometimes cause problems. But, on balance, most barristers' chambers and law firms look favourably on applicants with a few bylines to their name – and as the Barbara Hewson furore fades, that seems unlikely to change. Certainly, blogging helped Hardwicke's most junior tenant, Leon Glenister, to get his foot in the door at the Bar...

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Podcast: Does the criminal Bar have any hope of getting the public onside?

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The criminal Bar scored a coup this week when – for the first time in recent memory – it got some positive coverage in the right wing press. Sadly, the comments on the online versions of the articles illustrate just how big a challenge it'll be for criminal barristers to get public opinion on their side in their battle with the government...

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Podcast: Dispatches from the exam frontline

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Exam season is upon us: students up and down the country are frantically highlighting, cultivating coffee addictions, weeping and – if urban legend is to be believed – tearing key pages out of library books to gain a competitive edge.

Blogger Lucy Pether (pictured with me below), who combines her Legal Cheek editorial duties with the final year of a law degree at LSE, is one such student (although she's never torn pages out of library books). Happily, I'm free from such pain having finished my law degree at neighbouring institution UCL last year. Below, we share our exam tips (and horror stories) for your listening pleasure...

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Podcast: Why Wannabe Barristers Should Do Their Time As Paralegals Before Doing The BPTC

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The path from the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to paralegal purgatory is a well trodden one. Sadly, most of those purgatory-dwellers never make it to pupillage heaven. But what if you were to subvert this natural order and, say, become a paralegal before doing the BPTC, gleaning valuable experience and contacts at a much earlier stage than most?

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He’s Got 284 Law Student Problems But A Twitter Follower Shortage Ain’t One

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law-student-problemsIn just two months, with a mere 284 tweets, anonymous law student 'LawVicissitudes' has taken Twitter by storm, hauling in almost 6,000 followers with his brilliant #LawStudentProblems.

Yesterday, Legal Cheek blogger Lucy Pether and I went to meet the bright young thing behind some of the most memorable legal tweets of the year, including "#LawTips: edit the Wikipedia page after copying it to avoid plagiarism" and "Downloading torrents whilst sitting in an Intellectual Property Lecture. #Lawkward".

Over a cup of tea at his digs in a city somewhere in England, we chatted with the darling of the law student social media world (pictured below)...

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Is law really ‘very well suited to flexible working’?

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Earlier this month Law Society chief Lucy Scott-Moncrieff caused some raised eyebrows when she claimed that the legal profession is "very well suited to flexible working". It's easy to say such things, of course, but what's it like to oversee a flexible working regime in practice? Nicky Richmond, managing partner of London law firm Brecher, which employs more than 50% women, tells us about it – and admits sympathising with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who recently banned her staff from working from home...

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