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Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character
Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners
Lawyers at Bar National Mock Trial Competition urge students to look beyond criminal Bar
Citizenship Foundation's Bar Mock Trial final sees Northern Ireland's Aquinas Grammar School win national junior advocacy crown. But assembled top lawyers warn wannabes of plight of criminal Bar, and encourage them to explore other areas.
8 reasons why wannabe lawyers shouldn’t go to uni
As increasing numbers of top law firms introduce apprenticeship programmes, we consider the arguments in favour of entering the legal profession straight from school.
Full text: Pupil barrister’s brilliant #OneBarOneVoice speech
23 Essex Street pupil barrister Hannah Evans (pictured) was the star of Saturday's 'One Bar One Voice' event after revealing the reality of on the Bar's bottom rung for "ordinary" people.
‘There is a life after the criminal Bar’
Weber Shandwick head of public affairs Alex Deane doesn’t regret his time scraping a living...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol
A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’
After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...
John McCririck’s use of anti-discrimination legislation heralds the end of irony
Legal Cheek’s new columnist WaitroseLaw is dismayed by John McCririck’s use of a forthcoming employment...
Jobless Law Graduate’s Online Begging Campaign To Pay Off His Student Debts Ends In Disappointment
In October we reported on a US law graduate’s bid to pay off his massive...
In Which Country Do Lawyers Earn The Most? (Clue: It Isn’t Britain)
First, the good news: British lawyers pull in more cash than their counterparts in economic...
‘Rushing More Ethnic Minority Students Into Pupillage Could Cause Culture Clash’
OccupyTheInns cautions against a “knee-jerk” reaction to a study that found ethnic minority students are...
Minimum Pupillage Award ‘Limits Flow Of Talent To The Bar’
Keep the minimum wage for trainee solicitors, but scrap it for pupil barristers, argues OccupyTheInns...
Killing Time In Pre-Pupillage Purgatory
Pupillage-less prospective barrister Jack Smith is wary of forking out yet more cash on a...