Author: alex
Witness testifies via Skype in live televised trial: what could possibly go wrong?
When, yesterday, the prosecuting lawyer in the high profile Zimmerman trial called witness Scott Pleasants...
Revealed: what ‘commercial awareness’ actually means
Despite the term’s omnipresence in the world of legal graduate recruitment, few wannabe lawyers properly...
Why voicemail is an imperfect medium for threatening to kill one’s former colleagues
A junior lawyer who lost his job at top US firm Bryan Cave is facing...
The Guardian’s advice to this wannabe lawyer is really bad
The ‘work’ section of Saturday’s The Guardian featured a plea for help from a wannabe...
Unfunded pupillages are back
For ten years now, it has been compulsory for chambers to pay their pupils. But...
Has Sainsbury’s launched a legal services arm?
‘Sainsbury’s Legal’ doesn’t, of course, exist (yet), which makes this bail condition — which appeared...
Lawyers who submitted responses to legal aid consultation receive email telling them it was ‘deleted without being read’
Ever since it was confirmed that the Ministry of Justice had had 13,000 responses to...
Save UK Justice petition gets its 100,000th signature – pressure on government goes up a notch
A major House of Commons debate on the government’s proposals to reform legal aid is...
You’re fired! Dynamo Legal founder crashes out of the Apprentice in storm of criticism about his foray into the law
New legal franchise brand Dynamo Legal has missed out on a £250,000 investment after its...
Four barristers quit Tooks Chambers as merger rumours swirl
These are unsettled times at Tooks Chambers. As we revealed yesterday, the set has withdrawn...
The key points of the Legal Education and Training Review explained in 10 tweets
For those who don’t fancy wading through the traditional legal press’s long-winded deconstructions of the...
Anger as Tooks withdraws 2014 pupillage places after it had accepted applications
Top legal aid set Tooks Chambers has withdrawn two 2014 pupillage places for which it...
Barrister gets question about the Bar wrong on ITV quiz show The Chase
Shaun Wallace of Great James Street Chambers has surprised viewers of ITV quiz show The...
Non-practising barrister behind controversial essay writing company rebrands as self-help guru
A pupillage-less Bar graduate who made millions of pounds selling essays to students has launched...
Controversial ‘Rate Your Lecturer’ website features 3 law lecturers in its Top 10
Since it launched at the beginning of the month, RateYourLecturer.co.uk has aroused the ire of...
Lawyer’s swaggering response to ‘ham-fisted’ cease and desist letter goes viral
The US legal blogosphere was lit up yesterday by a brilliant leaked response to a...
Judicial ‘Pepsi Challenge’ fails as law students are unable to identify judges’ gender from their anonymised rulings
Durham University law students’ attempt to tell the gender of a judge on the basis...
Law students among the most mentally stable of undergraduates at top uni
A survey of Cambridge University undergraduates’ mental health has, comfortingly for the future of the...
The terrifying personality cult of Bernadette Kearns
Meet Bernadette Kearns, the great leader of Wigan law firm Bernadette Kearns Property Lawyers. The...
Bristol Uni law student who swore at police avoids criminal record after representing himself in court
In this difficult moment for wannabe lawyers, where work experience is so scarce that a...
Wannabe lawyer in vile Dunkin’ Donuts rant
Note to law students: avoid becoming carried away by a newfound knowledge of “your rights”...