Seemingly innocuous lawyer advert is in fact a clever publicity stunt for Breaking Bad spin-off
There is a real billboard advertising the services of Saul Goodman’s junior lawyer self — and the phone number works
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
A reading from the Book of Mitchell
Wigapedia draws upon Biblical inspiration to follow the twists and turns of the Jackson reforms
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Law, a hand grenade and two (not) smoking barrels — life in southwest London suburbs
Staff at high street solicitors’ practice unearth a disused mini-arsenal as they go round with dustpan and brush
This lawyer who only wears the Brazil team colours may have been hit particularly hard by 7-1 thrashing
Lawyer also has a yellow and green office, a yellow and green car and only eats yellow and green food.
Law Society lays on rubber chicken for only 250 notes per head at ‘excellence’ awards
Despite trying to pitch categories at high street and younger lawyers, only City slickers look likely to afford Chancery Lane’s gala event
Judge Dread’s coming to town
A chap standing for the bench in the home of country music bears some striking resemblances to the man with the Lawgiver pistol and purveyor of summary executions
Law firm’s weird blog post about Luis Suarez bite annoys everyone
Attempt to write something memorable backfires spectacularly.
LPC applications fall by 10% despite 8% rise in training contracts
Decline in LPC applications suggests that students don’t believe recent increase in training contract numbers will be sustained.
11 tweets from the #hipsterlaw hashtag that are probably too hilariously ironic for most lawyers to understand
A hashtag spawned by Sean Jones QC took off this morning.
No computers, smoking in the office and a comment about a female trainee’s ‘backside’: this video of Slaughter and May from 1981 is incredible
Someone has put a video on YouTube that was filmed inside top City law firm Slaughter and May in 1981.
‘Right to be forgotten’ ruling sees article about ‘foul-mouthed’ ex-Law Society president removed from Google
Articles in The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian about Robert Sayer disappear from search engine after implementation of controversial ruling.
7 spectacular legal typos
When jargon goes very wrong indeed…
Is that a former Blue Peter presenter banging on about the Human Rights Act?
Sadly, no — it’s an MP instead. But a recent City of London event on whether the law should be scrapped still generates volatile and at times polarised debate.
Vardag cuts romantic pre-nup on eve of legal profession wedding of the century
It was traumatic and shoes were hurled from windows, but eventually the country’s “top” divorce lawyer was able to sign her own fail-safe document
We need to talk about paralegals
The children of the financial crisis could pose a danger to law firms if their ambitions aren’t accommodated.
The best photos from London Legal Pride
Saturday’s gay pride celebration saw a record 30,000 revellers march through central London. Among them was a large contingent from the legal profession.
Which last 16 World Cup team is your law firm?
Brazil 2014 legal geekery: striking parallels revealed.
Law graduate launches bid to crowdfund her LPC in return for Twitter follows and signed photos
London-based wannabe solicitor seeks to raise £15,000.
Hashtag hilarity: #FakeWongaLawFirms
Following Wonga’s creation of fake law firms Chainey, D’Amato & Shannon and Barker & Lowe, Twitter users have been having some fun with the #FakeWongaLawFirms hashtag. Here are a selection.
Wannabe solicitor with murder conviction is allowed to do the LPC
High Court clears way for Selwyn Strachan — who was released from prison in Grenada in 2009 after Amnesty International slammed his “fatally flawed” trial — to become a solicitor.
Wonga fake law firms — where did they get those names?
Parody accounts already alive on Twitter as pay-day lender coughs up millions in compensation
Solicitor under fire for calling Alex Salmond an ‘ars*hole’
War of words rages north of the border — and perks up independence debate — following inflammatory tweet
Phone hacking lawyer’s Twitter gets hacked — and he becomes most followed member of UK legal profession
Tens of thousands of fake followers descend on Mark Lewis after — irony of ironies — his Twitter account is hacked.
8 reasons that lawyers are like condoms
“It’s the fruity ones which are the most fun? No, wait…”
Workload and client expectations are by far the biggest causes of stress for lawyers
60% of stressed-out solicitors say volume of work is the problem; 42% cite client expectations.
You can be a lawyer and simultaneously live your childhood Indiana Jones dream
Combining law firm marketing with action hero role-play.
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- 4 Legal pic of the day
- 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 Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker
- 5 Let's break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels
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