Author: legal-cheek
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...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 21 August
Are Britain’s barristers living on borrowed time? [The Telegraph] Trainee barrister who obtained council flat...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 12 August
Tennessee judge orders parents to change their son’s name from Messiah to Martin, because “only...
The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too
As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified...
5 ways to announce to the world that you’ve bagged a pupillage
Friday was, of course, pupillage offer day. For the lucky ones, there was delight, followed...
11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day
As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into...
18 year-old becomes youngest ever barrister after passing BPTC
Gabrielle Turnquest, 18, will become the youngest person in the history of the English and...
The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?
Someone at “The Tomes” seems to have been in a little bit too much of...
Legal job website of the week
“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July
Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures] Will Frankie...
Name that UK Supreme Court Justice
The 12 UK Supreme Court judges may not rack up Justin Bieber levels of views...