Author: judge-john-hack

Former Lord Chief Justice tries to buck up spirits at last weekend’s conference, but outlook still bleak for many and the prospect of fusion looms

US sole practitioner said she had no choice after adjournment application was thrown out -- highlighting difficulties women face in legal profession, which five London lawyers aim to tackle with new group

Several things you didn’t know about post-rebranded Fieldfisher: the partners like posh lunches, preferably game bird-orientated; they don’t always get what they want; and their children are privy to internal memos

Casser le plafond verre

This morning’s ruling sees the “Bladerunner” taken down to the cells, but will it be the final curtain for a plethora of parody Twitter accounts?

You're nicked

Bar up-and-comer whose profile-raising attempts haven't always gone smoothly wants profession to "move with the times"

Solicitors' firm chief exec loves his car so much that he wants to share it

Top drafting

Birmingham-based paralegal at national firm misled clients over damages and settlements

A leading media rent-a-quote merchant reckons as long as you can say the word, you can adopt the title

Exclusive Legal Cheek research reveals striking disconnect between representation of women at associate and partner levels alongside vastly different attitudes towards hiring ethnic minority lawyers

National player retains marginally more autumn qualifiers than most rivals in further sign of tentative graduate recruitment market recovery

Hunger games

A sure as night follows day, solicitors, barristers and law firms greet the release of the latest league table with the odd dollop of false humility

Aussie barrister in challenge to Lancashire solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker (aka Lord Harley of Counsel) for crown of best CV on the internet

A mind boggling Venn diagram shows that the legal profession and the oldest profession are despised equally

Break out the red braces, start waving fistfuls of fifty pound notes and bray like something normally housed in a stables -- according to Freshfields, the good times are back

Napery niceties

Current rules discriminate against legal profession vocational course graduates; while the prospect of the non-university, loafing-on-sofa route to qualification looms

The man who made a mint from ghost-writing student essays and then provided good vibration lifestyle advice is now knocking out cut-price legal advice