Author: alex

Are Barristers The Doctors Of The Legal Profession, And Solicitors The Nurses?

Last week there was outrage on The Student Room when a poster likened barristers to...

Jun 25 2012 2:21pm

Charity That Campaigns For ‘Access To Justice For All’ Offers Internships Only To Those Who Can Afford To Work For Free

Wandering idly through Holborn the other day, I spotted this advert for the Environmental Law...

Jun 22 2012 10:19am

Farewell Silk, Now Time To Come Up With a New Mythology For The Bar

The defining images in the second series of BBC legal drama Silk – which drew...

Jun 21 2012 1:01pm

Don’t Fancy The BPTC? Well, You Could Try Nicknaming Yourself ‘Barrister’ Instead

My favourite character in the media storm that has embraced embattled Tory peer Baroness Warsi...

Jun 21 2012 10:30am

Getting a Pupillage Contract At Slaughter & CILEX: Report Reveals That Young People Are Ill-Informed About Careers

Young people are overconfident slackers who don’t have a clue about the real world, new...

Jun 20 2012 9:39am

Dear Lady Justice Hallett, Don’t Be Insecure, You Don’t Need Make-Up…

Judging by her blue eye makeup, I’d say that Lady Justice Hallett (pictured) is no...

Jun 19 2012 2:17pm

Aston Carter Claims BPP Law School Described Its Pay-To-Be-A-Paralegal Scheme As ‘Novel And Inspiring’

Last month, Legal Cheek exclusively revealed that Aston Carter Solicitors was asking law graduates to...

Jun 18 2012 12:36pm

6 Lawyers Honoured In Queen’s Birthday List, But Recognition For Basket Maker And Pig Guru Takes Shine Off Accolades

Two judges, a QC and the head of the Crown Prosecution Service woke up over...

Jun 18 2012 9:31am

City Lawyer Offers ‘Free Accommodation To An Attractive Female In Exchange For Intimacy’

There was an interesting ad placed on the London section of Craigslist, the classified ads...

Jun 15 2012 8:40am

In-House Solicitor Makes Euro 2012 Debut

Sometimes the only way lawyers can sate their thirst for applying rules is by taking...

Jun 14 2012 8:59am

City Lawyer Makes Wired Magazine’s List Of UK’s Top 100 ‘Digital Power-Brokers’

Of concern for lawyers, perhaps, is an attitude among some of the new generation of...

Jun 13 2012 2:06pm

Conflict Of Interest? Leveson Silk Robert Jay QC Is Ed Miliband’s Wife’s Head Of Chambers

As you may or may not know, Ed Miliband’s wife, Justine Thornton, is a barrister...

Jun 13 2012 8:00am

Another Facebook ‘Reverse Auction’ For An LPC Place Ends Instantly – With Minimal Savings For Winning Bidder

The National College of Legal Training (NCLT)’s first Facebook ‘reverse auction’, which took place last...

Jun 12 2012 10:10am

Law Among The Jobs Most Likely To Lead To Weight Gain, Says New Survey

The sea of pot-bellies and teams of medics waiting nervously on stand-by at last month’s...

Jun 11 2012 1:34pm

Male Colleagues Nicknamed Me ‘Tiny Tits’, Says Ex-Clifford Chance Intern Who ‘Trained As a Lawyer In London’

Officially, City law firms are beacons of post-sexism enlightenment. In private, though, you hear all...

Jun 11 2012 9:14am

How To Go From Corporate Law Into Human Rights Academia

Most people don’t stay at the law firms they join as trainees all that long....

Jun 8 2012 3:08pm

‘He Daubed The Word “Bitch” On Wall In My Garden, Which Doesn’t Seem Like Something The DPP Would Do’

The words of a former girlfriend of Paul Bint, the conman famous for posing as...

Jun 8 2012 12:08pm

Bar Council Chair’s Pupillage ‘Great Concern’ Sparks Evening Standard Letter Page Response Flurry

Yesterday’s Evening Standard featured several letters – including, naturally, a missal dispatched from Legal Cheek...

Jun 8 2012 10:31am

Kate Middleton’s In-House Lawyer Ex-Boyfriend To Marry Marquess’ Daughter

When St Andrews University law student Rupert Finch pulled a hot first year called Kate...

Jun 6 2012 2:48pm

Top QC In W*nker Hand Gesture Shame

Barrister delivers annoying speech. Rival barrister rolls his eyes, turns to his junior and conspiratorially...

Jun 6 2012 9:37am