Author: alex

Danger! High Voltage: The College Of Law Ad Causing Chaos On The Tube

I spotted this ad for the College of Law on the Tube at King’s Cross...

May 31 2012 9:35am

Interview Essentials: ‘It’s OK, Nobody Else Knows What the F*ck Commercial Awareness Is Either’

The other night I went out for a curry with a bunch of associate solicitors...

May 30 2012 1:55pm

What Effect Will The Eurozone Crisis Have On Wannabe Lawyers?

Yesterday, I attended a conference organised by the European Commission in Brussels. It was called,...

May 30 2012 10:04am

‘Train To Be a Lawyer In Just One Year’: Too Good To Be True?

In February, I mentioned an advert for the London College of Law (not to be...

May 29 2012 2:19pm

Law Grad Who Attempted To Pass Himself Off As a Barrister From His Pop Up Office In a Pub Is Jailed

Earlier this month, Legal Cheek brought you news of the strange case of Marious Pimm,...

May 28 2012 12:42pm

Going, Gone: Bemusement As Law School’s Facebook LPC Place ‘Reverse Auction’ Is Over In Seconds

Earlier this month, the National College of Legal Training (NCLT) announced, to much fanfare, that...

May 28 2012 9:29am

NAMED: The Law Firm Requiring Grads To Self-Fund a £9.5K Paralegal Training Course Before They’re Considered For a TC

EXCLUSIVE: In March, Legal Cheek published a story about a firm that was asking law...

May 25 2012 10:16am

Jaguar Shoes v Jaguar Cars: Blame It On The Lawyers!

Just down the road from my crumbling flat in Hackney Legal Cheek’s Dalston studios is...

May 25 2012 9:32am

Law Blogger Milly Bancroft Misses Out As Orwell Prize Goes to Super-Niche ‘Rangers Tax Case’ Blog

Gasps, sighs and the sentence “A blog about a Scottish football team’s tax case?!” echoed...

May 24 2012 10:13am

Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas

Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something...

May 23 2012 10:37am

Greedy Associates: Freshfields Temp Scheme Could Freeze Junior Lawyer Pay For a Generation

There’s a growing consensus that junior corporate lawyers are overpaid, with a recent (paywalled) survey...

May 22 2012 1:25pm

Is The London Legal Walk The Shortest, Least Taxing Sponsored Walk In The History Of Sponsored Walks?

I know it’s great to raise money for worthy causes – and I’m personally very...

May 22 2012 8:21am

World’s Most Famous Legal Executive Starts Law School

The self taught Chinese ‘barefoot lawyer’ Chen Guangcheng may not have followed the Chartered Institute...

May 21 2012 1:51pm

The Hazards Of Law Blogging When You’re Married To Boris

On Thursday, 1 Crown Office Row barrister Marina Wheeler wrote a post for the UK...

May 21 2012 9:10am

PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)

Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...

May 18 2012 3:04pm

Amid “Heartache, Depression and Personal Bankruptcy”, Are We Finally Seeing The End Of The Criminal Bar?

Last night at the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) dinner at Middle Temple Hall, CBA chair...

May 18 2012 8:35am

‘I’m The MD Of Mangan Associates!’ Man Who Claimed He Was Solicitor Faces Jail

It seems that everyone is pretending – or at least allegedly pretending – to be...

May 17 2012 2:12pm

Eddie Stobart Lorries Launches Barrister Arm

The deregulation of the legal market has thrown up its most unlikely result yet: haulage...

May 17 2012 9:48am

Four Reasons Why The Trainee Minimum Wage Had To Go

You heard it here first, a full hour before any other publication, and it’s now...

May 16 2012 7:07pm

BREAKING: Trainee Solicitor Minimum Wage Looks Like It’s About To Be Scrapped

15.20: I’ve just ducked out of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) meeting where a final...

May 16 2012 3:19pm

‘Inaccuracies About the Legal Profession Make Me Cross’: BBC Drama Silk Returns To Torment Lawyers

Silk returned for its second series last night, enraging the country’s more pedantic legal professionals...

May 16 2012 10:02am