Category: News
How Sticklers For The Norm Could Find Themselves Out Of Luck In The Training Contract Hunt
Earlier this year I got a training contract at a small, reputable firm in Buckinghamshire...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 12 September
More than 200 schools have CCTV in toilets and changing rooms [The Telegraph] Postmortem reveals...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Union “wealth creators” give ex-City lawyer Chuka Umunna £24,500 [Guido Fawkes] Assange lawyer: “All Julian...
Edicts From The Ivory Tower: The Troubling Disconnect Between The SRA’s ‘Sophisticated’ Decision-Makers And Its ‘Over-Zealous’ Prosecutor Foot-Soldiers
A “wholly unjustified and unreasonable” decision to prosecute a small law firm for supposed failure...
Ladies, This Could Be Your Big Chance: Rugby-Playing Law Student Seeks ‘Fun’ This Sunday In London
Spotted yesterday on Craigslist… The post continues: “Hey 🙂 I’m a good looking, rugby playing...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 11 September
Law firm departure letter of the week: “If one million angels sang a chorus of...
End Of The Day Round-Up
‘It is inconceivable that Mr Cruise would have difficulty getting a girlfriend’: Church of Scientology’s...
Conservative MP Philip Davies Slams ‘Pompous’ ‘Out Of Touch’ Legal Profession In Anti-Lawyer Twitter Diatribe
It began last Thursday, when right-wing Tory MP Philip Davies labelled Judge Peter Bowers (of...
DLA Piper Trainee Solicitor Convicted Of Making Homophobic Remarks And Attacking Two Students
A second-year trainee at the Edinburgh office of DLA Piper has been found guilty of...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 10 September
‘Litigation culture’ is making Britain less safe, says report [The Independent] It really DIDN’T fit:...
Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. Woman Killed By Falling Window Frame In Mayfair Was Keystone Law Solicitor Amanda Telfer...
End Of The Day Round-Up
‘Mr Loophole’ helps £75,000-a-week England footballer challenge speeding fine… and saves him a FIVER [Mail...
Inn The Know: Gossip That’s Too Scurrilous To Publish In Full, But Too Juicy To Waste
Editorial note: welcome to Legal Cheek’s new gossip column. It’ll run every time we get...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 7 September
Hillsborough families boosted as the “Rolls-Royce of lawyers” offer services for free [The Mirror] Graduate...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Law graduate starts first-ever multi-firm training contract [Managing Partner] Judicial watchdog to investigate judge’s ‘burglary...
Fifty Shades Of Gray’s Inn: Shopping For Cable Ties And Rope In B&Q
GDL student Anastasia Steal bumps into Christopher Grey QC, head of Gray’s Inn Chambers, in...
Lawyer Files a Cartoon To Get Round Five-Page Limit
After having the length of his brief limited to five pages by a judge, New...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 6 September
Julian and Me – (perhaps) a final word [Jack of Kent] “Clinton’s…a lawyer slowly moving...
End Of The Day Round-Up
‘It takes a huge amount of courage to burgle somebody’s house’: What judge told intruder...
Didn’t Get a Pupillage? Well, There’s Always Origami
Hope is gradually fading for this year’s batch of BPTC graduates without pupillages as the...