Author: judge-john-hack

Throwback Thursday: Lord Denning and Noddy on ‘Jim’ll Fix It’

Following the popularity of the video of Slaughter and May in 1981, we have continued our trawl of YouTube and unearthed a 1985 episode of ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ starring Lord Denning and Noddy — which thankfully has a happy ending

Jul 24 2014 9:21am

Solicitors’ leader smarms up to new Attorney General and Solicitor General despite no other lawyer having heard of them

While the rest of the legal profession scratches its head in bafflement at the elevation of Jeremy Wright and Robert Buckland, the Law Society President tweets fawning congratulations

Jul 23 2014 2:35pm

God orders student to go to law school — but she wants us to foot the bill

A young woman in South Carolina launches a novel crowd-funding bid to cover degree fees after the Almighty provides career planning advice

Jul 23 2014 12:28pm

Let’s break free from the cultural imperialism of US legal dramas and stop imagining that English judges use gavels

Even a respected broadsheet falls into the trap of thinking British judges bang away like their Yankee counterparts

Jul 23 2014 9:46am

Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character

Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners

Jul 22 2014 2:51pm

Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices

Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union

Jul 22 2014 12:06pm

Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’

"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.

Jul 21 2014 9:18am

Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker

Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins.

Jul 16 2014 3:27pm

Just who is Jeremy Wright? Lawyers have never heard of new attorney general

Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them

Jul 16 2014 12:19pm

Training contracts in Wales — get ready for a spot of hazing

High street law firm newbies kitted out in silly clobber while the skateboarder from Dirty Sanchez takes over business development.

Jul 15 2014 12:20pm

Law Society undercuts Wetherspoons in bid to become cheapest boozer in London

Calling all students, trainee solicitors, hard-pressed pupils, struggling legal aid lawyers, general dole loafers and functioning alcoholics: the Law Society is flogging pints of Stella for £2.85!

Jul 11 2014 9:04am

Revealed: Where the stars of that 1981 Slaughter and May video are today

33 years on, one Slaughter and May home video star is still at the firm, another is at Herbert Smith Freehills, while the solicitor behind the camera has left the law altogether.

Jul 10 2014 11:53am

Law, a hand grenade and two (not) smoking barrels — life in southwest London suburbs

Staff at high street solicitors’ practice unearth a disused mini-arsenal as they go round with dustpan and brush

Jul 9 2014 11:56am

Law Society lays on rubber chicken for only 250 notes per head at ‘excellence’ awards

Despite trying to pitch categories at high street and younger lawyers, only City slickers look likely to afford Chancery Lane’s gala event

Jul 8 2014 2:49pm

Judge Dread’s coming to town

A chap standing for the bench in the home of country music bears some striking resemblances to the man with the Lawgiver pistol and purveyor of summary executions

Jul 8 2014 11:47am

Barrister quits bar to become a barista

The tale of a lawyer who’s jacked it all in to run a café.

Jul 7 2014 1:27pm

Chambers beware – mini-pupillages and the confidentiality horror

Bar Council warns barristers in 22-page guidance that mini-pupils should sign undertakings before arriving at chambers

Jul 2 2014 12:18pm

Tealeaf half-inches barrister’s horsehair syrup — from courtroom

Criminal lawyer puts out all-points bulletin on stolen wig, which went missing in middle of Harrow Crown Court trial.

Jul 2 2014 9:37am

Ex-bar leader: commercial chambers interested only in students with top degrees from top universities

Despite resources thrown at diversity and programmes, chambers still tilt towards elitism when recruiting, say silks

Jul 1 2014 2:36pm

Vardag cuts romantic pre-nup on eve of legal profession wedding of the century

It was traumatic and shoes were hurled from windows, but eventually the country’s “top” divorce lawyer was able to sign her own fail-safe document

Jul 1 2014 11:59am

The Bar Council accidentally sacks all of its staff

Mail-merge problems during restructuring consultation cause chaos.

Jun 26 2014 12:30pm