Author: alex
Power Shift To The (Mid-Level) People Set To Herald Rise Of The ‘Indie Lawyer’
Social media is giving individual solicitors and barristers a voice and helping them to develop...
What Will Replace The Fading Dreams Of City Law Megabucks And Criminal Bar Glamour?
This is the central question that the panel will be discussing at Legal Cheek‘s Google...
Times Law Cartoonist: ‘I Have To Pay To Read My Own Cartoons Behind The Paywall’
This is – as a UK-based foreign football manager might say – a difficult moment for...
Jobless Law Graduate’s Online Begging Campaign To Pay Off His Student Debts Ends In Disappointment
In October we reported on a US law graduate’s bid to pay off his massive...
Dinah Rose QC: ‘Marrying A Male Barrister Is A Disaster’
“Marry a house-husband! A 1950s-style wife – someone to have dinner on the table!” Dinah...
Leveson And The Internet: Would Regulation Be A Good Thing For Legal Bloggers?
There was a brilliant cartoon in The Sun over the weekend making light of the...
Law Student Assoc Slammed For Using ‘Disrespectful’ Image To Plug Benefits Of Networking Via Its Facebook Page
Take a school uniform-clad Hollywood star, superimpose over her the logo of your law students’...
BPP Law School Makes BPTC Student Resit Exams After Her Results Were Lost (And It Almost Remains A Secret)
BPP Law School generally does a good job of, er, ‘managing its reputation’. But even...
Why You Shouldn’t Post The Viral Mumbo Jumbo Legal Message On Your Facebook Wall
Earlier in the day we posted a note on our Facebook page about the pseudo-legal...
London-Based US Lawyer Embarks On Second Round Of Brit-Bashing In His Hilarious Blog
I may have gone a little too far last month when I urged criminals to...
Terrible Job Application Website Pupillage Portal To Close – And Be Replaced By ‘Pupillage Gateway’
Error-prone pupillage application website Pupillage Portal is to be put out of its misery –...
Survey Slams ‘Dry’ And ‘Staid’ UK Law Firm Websites
Most of the top 30 UK law firms have “mediocre” websites that are defined by...
Barrister Who Accused Lord McAlpine Of Being a Paedophile Issues Grovelling Apology – As Peer’s Legal Team Confirms It’s Investigating Him
Earlier this month we revealed that one of the bloggers who wrongly named Lord McAlpine...
EXCLUSIVE: College Of Law To Change Its Name To The ‘University Of Law’ – And Become A Proper University
The College of Law is to re-brand as the University of Law after being granted...
Will It Soon Cost Nothing To Become a Lawyer?
Thanks to the trebling of undergraduate fees, the cost of legal education has reached new...
Judge Gives Verbose Lawyer a Lesson In Editing
A US judge’s stinging criticism of a lawyer’s ability to write concisely has been doing...
Why Law Students’ Cluelessness About The Legal Market Could Consign Them To Paralegal Purgatory
The other day I had a coffee with the guy who many of the top...
Lawyer Beats Astronaut In Survey Of Childhood Dream Jobs
A LinkedIn survey has found that law is the sixth most common dream job, making...
‘Women Look To Men For Crucial Decisions’: Top Junior Barrister Stars In Anti-Women Bishops Video
Albion Chambers family law barrister Daniel Leafe has appeared in a video alongside his wife,...
The London Legal World Is a Small One (Just Ask I’m a Celebrity’s Nads And Hugo)
Watching I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the other night, I was unexpectedly...
The Bizarre Story Of The ‘Marauding Lawyers’
The Washington Post reports that Pakistani “police officials, judges, litigants and witnesses say they have...