Category: Feature
Now it’s time for top City partners to go into the age-guessing mincer
Have a guess, how old do you reckon the guvnor is …?
Which Game of Thrones character is your law firm?
Maybe don't use these in a training contract application
What judges say Vs. what judges mean
"I consider this application, in accordance with the Overriding Objective" = "Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Christmas sing-a-long: ‘Working in a Mitchell Wonderland’
Now for a Jackson reforms-themed Christmas sing-a-long
The language of the legal directory: decoded — 2014 edition
Wigapedia returns to make his annual translation of the Legal 500
What your Instructions say Vs. what they mean
A guide to what instructing solicitors are really telling barristers.
‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...
‘I had no idea how important law was while I was studying it in individual slabs’
If I knew then what I know now, I’d have been keener to study law. At school I’d wanted to study history at university and only ended up reading law after an unforeseen episode, writes Gary Slapper
‘A barrister’s rhetorical flourishes can be seductive, but eventually they become an irritating distraction’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
‘The Chances You Don’t Take Are The Ones You Regret’
Ed note: This is the first in a series of posts where leading members of...