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Dismissed: Wannabe Barrister’s Claim That Minimum Pupillage Award Is Discriminatory To Black Africans
Like many Bar graduates, John Iteshi couldn’t get a pupillage – or even an interview...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 2 April
Calls to replace ex-Herbert Smith partner Lord Gold as head of ‘cash-for-access’ inquiry – The...
Killing Time In Pre-Pupillage Purgatory
Pupillage-less prospective barrister Jack Smith is wary of forking out yet more cash on a...
Trainee Solicitors Could Earn Just £5,408 a Year If Minimum Wage Scrapped
Trainee solicitors could be re-classified as apprentices – and see their salaries tumble to just...
How To Get An Inns Of Court Scholarship
BPTC student Jack Smith, who’s in receipt of a full scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn, explains...
REVEALED: £30K Buys a TC, £9K a Paralegal Post
Earlier this month, Jonathan Fagan, managing director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, received an email from...
The GDL: Too Much Whine, Not Enough Time
Wannabe lawyers need to be more Margaret Thatcher and less Nick Clegg if they are...
Bar Should Be Restricted To Russell Group Graduates
Why incur the cost and hassle of an aptitude test to limit entry onto the...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 9 March
Matrix barrister is clear front-runner to be next UK judge in Strasbourg – The Guardian...
‘Fun And Freewheeling Parties’: Law Firm’s New Grad Recruitment Strategy
Specialist litigation firm Quinn Emanuel, whose London office has been prominent on the wave of...
Lunch with Legal Cheek: Mark Stephens
You can change the world through law, star media lawyer Mark Stephens tells Emily Jupp,...
Law Student Branded ‘Slut’ By Talk Show Host Gets Obama Call
The following would never happen in Britain… On 23 February, Georgetown Law School student Sandra...
Becoming a QC: Easy as £4,200 inc VAT
The congratulations email received by today’s new QCs comes with…a bill for £4,200 (inclusive of...
Should Law Schools Refund Students if They Can’t Get a Job?
In a move that may interest jobless British law graduates and the bigwigs on the...
Does Studying Law Destroy Your Soul?
Until recently LPC student Cat Pond was an empathetic, liberal type, but the law has...
LPC Student In ‘I HATE COLLEGE OF LAW’ Facebook Rant
The College of Law’s Facebook page is usually a happy place, where wannabe lawyers post...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 24 February
Whitehall lawyer kept me as a slave and tried to strangle me, says nanny –...
‘Solicitor Advocates Are Destroying The Junior Bar’
If advocacy is your calling, don’t try to force the creation of a single, merged...
‘It’s More Likely To Be The QCs Getting Under Clerks Feet Than The Pupils’
Jeremy Hopkins, a clerk at a top commercial chambers, responds to last week’s controversial piece...
I Know, Let’s Call it…LawVest!
No one seems entirely sure what LawVest, the new DLA Piper-backed alternative business structure (ABS),...
Simon Myerson QC: I’d Rather Have a Coffee Than a Pupil
‘Pupils contribute nothing to chambers during their pupillage’, writes Simon Myerson QC, so paying them...