Category: News
Law Firm Life: The Truth In A Pie Chart
From Rob Pollak, the brilliant former Skadden associate behind ‘Lawyers, can you go home?’, comes another...
Bar Student Outrage As Mock Paper Questions Feature In BPTC Ethics Exam
Exclusive: 24 hours after BPTC students completed Monday’s centrally set ethics exam, a mock paper...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 20 March
American-style televised courts move a step closer: Channel 4 to show a British murder trial...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Katie Holmes fuels rumours she’s about to become a lawyer: “Well, my brother and father...
Is law really ‘very well suited to flexible working’?
Earlier this month Law Society chief Lucy Scott-Moncrieff caused some raised eyebrows when she claimed...
The mismatch between Bar graduates and pupillages is about to get a whole lot worse…
One thing no one has mentioned in relation to the very serious travails of the...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 19 March
Zimbabwe police ignore order to free top lawyer [Huffington Post] CLA condems the arrest of...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Draft royal charter on self regulation of the press [Gov.uk] “I warned you they needed...
EXCLUSIVE: Executive committee of the UK Law Students Association quits after huge bust-up with governors
There is chaos at the UK Law Students Association (UKLSA) – whose patrons are Lord...
BPP hit by setback in bid to become a uni as union says move would put students ‘at risk’
Most law students claim to be indifferent to whether the places where they do their...
1KBW divorce barrister offers priest work experience
“I should very much like to be a barrister so I could say things like...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Joshua Rozenberg interviews court artist Julia Quenzler [Radio 4] Start the bilge pumps or abandon...
‘Get a job wherever you can and you never know when your opportunity might present itself’
In the latest instalment in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series, Norton...
Morning round-up: Friday 15 March
Law profession can’t handle talented women, says Baroness Hale [The Independent] “I won back my...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Boris Bike lawyers think a leap year is 364 days long [Dave Gorman on Twitter]...
Exclusive: Attorney General responds to Bar anger at his ‘foolish’ barristers comment
Legal Cheek‘s Kevin Poulter has just asked Attorney General Dominic Grieve what he meant by...
Do As I Say Not As I Do Advocacy Training: Starring Lord Sumption
Last month we analysed the “smug smile” and poor posture which blight Lord Neuberger’s delivery...
Farewell to the graffiti barrister
The eagle-eyed will have noticed that Legal Cheek has undergone a spring makeover. Which means...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 14 March
Who is Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, the lawyer taking Argo to court? [The Week] Just doing my...
The Deal is Done: University Of Law Takes Over Oxford Brookes LPC
Exclusive: The University of Law will provide a Legal Practice Course (LPC) at Oxford Brookes...
There Has Always Been A Bar Aptitude Test – And Training To Be A Barrister Is Free For Those Who Pass It
Amid all the debate about rising Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) fees and the new...