Category: News
End of the day round-up
Barrister: “I can categorically confirm that Chris Grayling has never done a mini-pupillage with me”...
Tooks Chambers to be dissolved
After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures,...
There is a real lawyer called Saul Goodman!
Saul Goodman, the famously dodgy criminal lawyer in hit TV series Breaking Bad, has a...
Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?
A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice...
Morning round-up: Monday 23 September
Judge jails man for seven days for taking picture in court on his phone [Yorkshire...
‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’
In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...
‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’
In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...
The charmingly contrarian world of Grayling’s lone solicitor supporter
Yesterday Yorkshire-based high street solicitor John Wilson wrote a piece for The Times in which...
Morning round-up: Friday 20 September
Sorry the hardest word as Bar Council apologises for getting its sums wrong [Legal Business]...
Law student alienates coursemates with bizarre mass email berating them for eating in lectures — coursemates leak email…
A Canadian law student has got off to a bad start to the academic year...
Does the way that lawyers are encouraged to think and work make them vulnerable to depression?
A high stress job combined with a temperamental inclination to analyse and pick apart can...
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...
Lawyer bills 29 hours in one day
A US lawyer is facing disciplinary proceedings after billing for a 29-hour day. According to...
Pupillage-less BPTC grad among the ‘25 most influential Londoners aged under 25′
There’s no doubt that Gabrielle Turnquest‘s achievement in becoming the youngest person to be called...
The 10 best law student meltdowns on Vine
While lawyers have been slow to embrace iPhone app Vine, law students have seized upon...
Exeter University confirms that it was one of its professors who had his law lecture remixed
As universities return for autumn, beware, lecturers, of the smartphone-wielding student with video-editing skills. And,...
Starting pupillage: ‘So much to learn but hopefully a chance to teach a little too’
Two years after being called to the Bar, OccupyTheInns prepares to become a fully-fledged barrister...
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,...
‘No I don’t want to take that file home this weekend, why don’t you do it Mr Head of Department?’
UCL legal academic Richard Moorhead wonders if his rocky spell in private practice would have...