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Alternative Careers For Law Grads: Busker

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By Legal Cheek on

Some poetry from self-styled “People’s Lawyer and the People’s Poet” David Neita popped up on YouTube the other day. In the clip, Bar graduate Neita – whose decision last year to appear on the BBC as a “barrister” despite never having done a pupillage generated some interesting debate – asks bemused commuters why they are in such a hurry, before urging them to slow down.

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