Author: legal-cheek
Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 October
Barrister Hottie of the Week: The Mark Darcy Duel [YourBarristerBoyfriend] Barrister resigns from CPS sex...
End of the day round-up
Bridget Jones’ barrister heart-throb Mark Darcy has been killed off [Evening Standard] Barrister Hottie founders...
Morning round-up: Monday 30 September
Chris Grayling is 6′ 5″! [The Spectator] Conservative Party conference blog [Law Society Gazette] Shamed...
Morning round-up: Friday 27 September
The tricky matter of tweeting that Legal500 ranking: does one opt for a humblebrag or...
End of the day round-up
David Allen Green: “Whether someone brandishing a sword whilst wearing a blindfold is an appropriate...
Morning round-up: Thursday 26 September
Who owns the moon? Time to call in the “space lawyers” [The Telegraph] Chris Grayling:...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 25 September
Michael Mansfield QC told off for being “much too combative and much too aggressive” after...
Podcast: ‘Should I call off my hunt for a training contract?’
A year after finishing the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Queen Mary University of London...
Starting law school #Pippatips
The BPP Law School Twitter account has spent the last week tweeting some of the...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 24 September
Escaping armed robber is stopped by court reporter’s rugby tackle after leaping from the dock...
End of the day round-up
Barrister: “I can categorically confirm that Chris Grayling has never done a mini-pupillage with me”...
Morning round-up: Monday 23 September
Judge jails man for seven days for taking picture in court on his phone [Yorkshire...
Morning round-up: Friday 20 September
Sorry the hardest word as Bar Council apologises for getting its sums wrong [Legal Business]...
Morning round-up: Thursday 19 September
Swedish court rules it is legal to masturbate in public (if it’s not directed at...
End of the day round-up
Leveson has been “disastrous” says Guardian legal chief [Press Gazette] Linkedin challenges US government over...
Dispatches from the GDL frontline: ‘It’s a weird atmosphere because half the people have training contracts and half don’t’
The idyllic life of the undergraduate came crashing to a halt this week for thousands...
Morning round-up: Monday 16 September
Judges must quit £3,000-a-night luxury lodgings and stay at B&Bs, as ministers seek to slash...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Video: Clifford Chance trainee in ‘f*cking people over for money’ YouTube boast 2. Solicitor,...
Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts
Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about...
Podcast: Hard-working Generation Y puts Xers to shame — but will the graft pay off?
Once upon a time, when higher education was free and jobs plentiful, a generation of...
Law firm pens are officially everywhere
Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...