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Fifty Shades Of Gray’s Inn: Shopping For Cable Ties And Rope In B&Q
GDL student Anastasia Steal bumps into Christopher Grey QC, head of Gray’s Inn Chambers, in...
Fifty Shades Of Gray’s Inn: ‘His Eyes Were Like Deep Pools Of Cappuccino, Swirling…’
GDL student Anastasia Steal relives the extraordinary day she met Christopher Grey QC, head of...
Welcome To The ‘Envy Economy’ Of City Law Firms
I spend my days in the office listening to management speak. When I’m not going...
Leap To The Other Side: Camden New Journal Music Editor On How She’s Juggling Journalism And Law
For the past two years I have been leading a double life – part music...
How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt
Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...
Feeling Important: Possible As a Trainee Solicitor?
TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference...
Same Shirt, Different Day: Freudian Explanation?
Last Thursday, I wore the same shirt to work as I had on Wednesday. This...
Get a Training Contract Or Get Deported: The Fate Of The Foreign Law Graduate In The UK
If, like me, you’re not British or European and are applying for training contracts, you...
Restricting The BPTC To Students Who’ve Already Bagged a Pupillage Wouldn’t Breach Competition Law…
…but it would put pressure on chambers to fund the course – and could lead...
‘If The Firm Was a Person, How Would You Describe Them?
Now that he’s finished the GDL, David Woodall finally has some time to sample the...
Solicitors’ Profession Could Face a ‘Lost Generation Of Talent’
Three weeks on from the scrapping of the trainee minimum wage and the decision looks...
Why Snarky Blogs Should Stop Taking The Piss Out Of The London Legal Walk
It’s not all that often that I think Alex misses the point, but in his...
GDL HELL: ‘With The Job Market The Way It Is, Passing Is Simply Not Good Enough’
The pressure is on as GDL exams near, but the more David Woodall reads, the...
You’ve Either Got It Or You Haven’t: The ‘Personality X Factor’ That’s Needed To Land a Pupillage
Orwell prize short-listed blogger Amanda Bancroft, a former barrister, on what differentiates the wannabes from...
‘I Attempted To Preface Appraisals With A Quotation From The Great Gatsby’
As appraisal season approaches, a partner at a top London law firm reveals what it’s...
‘I’m Worried Having a Blog Could Repel Chambers’
King’s College law student Yi Bin Woh reckons Lord Neuberger’s recent warning to judges about...
Has Training Contract Gloom Become Self-Reinforcing?
The atmosphere of negativity in the legal profession towards graduate recruitment is getting out of...
Does Studying Law Destroy Your Soul?
Until recently LPC student Cat Pond was an empathetic, liberal type, but the law has...
Make a Difference: Sponsor a Pupil Barrister For Just £3 a Day
Andrew Jackson, a barrister at 5 Pump Court Chambers, has come up with a compelling...
A Letter To My 18 Year-Old Oxbridge-Hating Self
Sarah Gillbe, who skipped uni to work as a legal secretary before becoming a solicitor,...
City Pro Bono Falls: Airfare Savings?
As City pro bono hours drop, Alasdair Stewart of pro bono charity LawWorks is buoyed...