Category: News

Wannabe lawyer's antics could be a turn-off for law firms and chambers

Lego judges are a thing

Regulator's controversial decision to abandon trainee recruitment code of practice will make City law graduate hiring more investment bank-like

Rod-related recollections

What's a "bappister"?

New route into profession could be a game-changer

Doughty Street human rights barrister bags prestigious New York gig

Do you get Snake on that?

BBC children’s telly sketch team pump up the volume over ancient rights

Two more corporate firms find homes for over 80% of their newly-qualifying young

Washington DC-based litigator was originally called in to advise on legal accuracy of scenes in third season

If yet another review of legal education must be launched -- let’s hope regulators have the guts to propose something radical and meaningful

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

A shelfie

Chambers Solicitors' drafting reaches a wider audience

In a bid for trendiness, franchise giant Eversheds released this adrenaline-fuelled video advert -- three months before the 2008 crash

Star of legal drama Silk is back as you've never seen her before

And media niche firm Olswang hits 88%, but on much smaller trainee cohort

Grayling's department "looking at how improving prisoners' reading skills helps to reduce reoffending" -- after banning books in prisons and getting smacked down by courts

Newcastle University law student makes baked appeal for training contract

Fraud squad swooped on Chambers Solicitors in July and arrested two; meanwhile, New York-based former Tory MP reveals she’s had a Gorgeous George letter