Category: News
Cambridge law students claim they’re being hit on by ‘predatory’ solicitors and barristers
Student paper Varsity lifts lid on unwelcome advances made during graduate recruitment events
Morning round-up: Monday 27 April
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Bring on the revolution, cries former Appeal Court judge, imploring lawyers to ignore establishment and go on strike
Timid approach from establishment representation bodies should be binned, advises Sir Anthony Hooper, in bid to put fire in belly of criminal law practitioners
City lawyer parliamentary candidate battles claims he over-egged experience at Clifford Chance
Tory safe seat man in bid to refute allegations that his claim to have headed a magic circle department is a big fat exaggeration
Bogus ‘boutique barrister’ puts regulator in spotlight over non-practising status
Bar Standards Board defends its position as pupillage-less bar graduate is jailed for fraud after using "barrister" title
Meet the solicitor-pop star more popular than her magic circle law firm
Slaughter and May pop star associate puts her firm in social media shadows with her latest catchy release
The Judge rules: lawyer websites — little more than worthy vanity publishing
A recent rash of online efforts from the legal profession should be praised for effort, but they won’t reach their supposed target audiences
Aussie law school boldly heads for space – but in wake of Sunderland trailblazers
University of Adelaide today takes its specialist module to the launch pad warning of fears that it’s not that lonely in space after all
Cambridge law grads are the biggest earners in the legal profession
Light blues outstrip ancient rivals Oxford by £7,000, while LSE comes second and even the Scots get a look in
Kennedy QC v Starkey in almighty Magna Carta bust up on this morning’s BBC radio
Lawyer and historian go hammer and tongs, while Twittersphere lambasts Law Society for dropping definite article clanger regarding the 800-year-old document
5 bad things about being a City lawyer that nobody tells you about
Anonymous London solicitor Corporate Drone goes where the graduate recruitment brochures definitely do not
Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top judicial posts
Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders
Who insists on the poshest funerals? Yep, it’s the lawyers
Latest UK death research shows the legal profession beats bankers and generals by being keenest to splurge its way into the afterlife
Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur
Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police
Law degree student numbers rocket by nearly 20% despite still hard job market
Latest figures show no loss of appetite for law as undergraduate subject -- and women far outnumbering men on degree courses
Never mind Amal, the real barrister fashion story is Geoffrey Robertson QC
Bar fashion wars -- Doughty Street head takes on chambers colleague Amal Clooney
Need legal advice? Would you like chips with that?
Welsh based firm opt for Fish and Chip based advert to haul in the clients
City law firms retain more qualifying solicitors than before financial crash
There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking
Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom
It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting
Chris Grayling flunks politicians’ equivalent of a training contract interview
Wannabe lawyer and local council candidate Alex Cisneros uses graduate recruitment criteria to review last night’s performance by Justice Secretary at a constituency hustings meeting