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Podcast: Dispatches from the exam frontline
Exam season is upon us: students up and down the country are frantically highlighting, cultivating…
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‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all…
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Morning round-up: Friday 19 April
“Lawyers are treated with a little bit more respect than porn magazine editors”: Ex-features editor…
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End of the day round-up
DLA Piper settles “churn that bill, baby!” dispute [New York Times] Paralegals have the same…
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The Home Office’s Spelling And Punctuation Shame (In A Press Release About English Language Tests)
As spotted by 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner.
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After The BPTC Ethics Exam ‘Very Serious Issue’, Tumbleweed…
It has been a month since the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics exam,…
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Court Of Appeal Judge’s Determination To Get His Best Lines In Before Retirement
Fresh from coming up with perhaps the most tortuous equine metaphor ever, soon-to-retire judge Sir…
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Morning Round-Up: Thursday 18 April
Training contracts down to the lowest level since 1999 [Law Society Gazette] Paralysed builder to…
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End Of The Day Round-Up
Top QC: “I stared down barrel of a revolver and faced torture threats” [Nottingham Post]…
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You Have To Go All The Way With The GDL – But An LLB Gives You Options
When I was 16, I received my GCSE results and discovered that I had got…
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Is Flame-Grilling Your Bridges With Burger King Because You’re Going To Law School Such A Great Idea?
Once upon a time, before a bank called Lehman Brothers collapsed plunging the world into…
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Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 17 April
Bar nursery to help women barristers with kids rise through ranks [Evening Standard] Law student…
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End of the day round-up
Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding sentenced to six-month driving ban [Daily Mail] Met police planning dawn…
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Law Revision #Pippatips
It’s exam time, and the legal blogosphere is awash with revision tip articles – rather…
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Chat, Date Or Instruct A Barrister!
The brand association hazards for barristers promoting their services via the Evening Standard‘s small ads…
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Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 16 April
MP plotting changes to libel laws earns thousands as a libel lawyer [The Independent] Guantánamo…
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End Of The Day Round-Up
Law graduate who was jailed for fraud after pretending to be a barrister fails in…
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Can You Fund Yourself Through A Law Degree Without Resorting To Life Modelling?
Legal Cheek‘s Lucy Pether draws on her experience as a law student at LSE to…
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Who Needs Chambers And Partners When You’ve Got Siralan?
Experts have been predicting the demise of legal directories for years. But market leading duo…
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Legal Cheek High Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. How (Not) To Be A Trainee Solicitor 2. 10 Reasons To Be Kind To…