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The Apprentice Review: First solicitor axed from show blames exit on Lord Sugar’s hatred of lawyers
Lauren is out, leaving legal profession's hopes resting on shoulders of ex-magic circle solicitor Felipe
The Apprentice review: reinforcing lawyer stereotypes
Lord Sugar doesn't seem keen on the "typical safe lawyer" of popular legend
The Apprentice Review: Ex-Slaughter and May man returns to scene of BCL triumph — no one cares
Family lawyer beats City lawyer in Oxford tour face-off -- but both march on to next round
The Apprentice review: ex-Slaughter and May associate humiliated in ‘Fat Daddy’ video flop
What happens when lawyers try to get videos to go viral on purpose
The Apprentice Week 2 review: Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer Felipe in candlemaker existential crisis
Has Felipe's legal career burned out long before his passion for candle-making ever will?
Review: Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer very nearly got fired in first episode of The Apprentice
An anonymous law student reviews the performances of the two solicitors on last night's series ten opener
6 things you can buy with 18 grand that are much more fun than law school
With the cost of the LPC and BPTC approaching the eye-watering respective sums of £15,000 and £18,000, it is not unreasonable to consider how else that money could be spent
9 things not to do in a pupillage interview (if you’re an interviewer)
An anonymous bar wannabe draws on his recent pupillage interview experience to deliver some lessons to chambers.
‘I was angry and embarrassed’: Bar wannabe whose application form blooper was tweeted by a barrister hits back
A prospective barrister explains how he felt when his mistake was highlighted first on Twitter and then on Legal Cheek.
‘There is a life after the criminal Bar’
Weber Shandwick head of public affairs Alex Deane doesn’t regret his time scraping a living...
‘Unless your dad is senior partner you are the only person in your firm who truly cares about your career’
With work thin on the ground after the 2008 crash, corporate lawyer Danvers Baillieu found...
‘Training contracts were hard to come by: 147 applications resulted in 147 rejections’
The 90s recession proved a blessing in disguise for Lancaster University senior law lecturer Angus...
The 2013 Legal Cheek end of year quiz
2013 has been jam-packed with legal news and gossip. But how much of it do...
‘Turning a story round as a journalist is closer to the process of preparing a late brief for a trial than I ever imagined’
Changing careers isn’t easy, says Catherine Urquhart of her switch from journalist at The Times...
‘I was offered pupillage at the second chambers I applied to’
Unlike his friend, who crashed his hired Jaguar into the chambers where he was interviewing,...
‘If I had known what strange paths life can take you down, I would have been far less depressed at my prospects’
Does it really matter if you don’t know what to do with your life? Perhaps...
‘The painful truth is that there’s a lot of apathy and incompetence in the workplace’
Leading general counsel Tom Kilroy has, over time, learned to combine open-mindedness with a hard-headed...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
The 16 most amusing Queen’s Counsel cartoons ever
As The Times’ Queen’s Counsel cartoon turns 20 — and marks its anniversary with a...
‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’
After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...
‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’
Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of...