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6 animals that look like Chris Grayling
Some have lampooned Chris Grayling for his lack of a legal qualification. Others have sought...
Going, going, gone – to the person with £2,660 to blow on legal work experience
Westminster School has completed its controversial auction of work experience at the criminal Bar, with...
In pictures: today’s legal aid protest
This morning’s demonstration against the government’s legal aid proposals saw 500 plus lawyers take to...
‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’
The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...
Anonymous case report of the week
The Court of Appeal’s recent judgement in AAA (by her litigation friend BBB) v Associated...
Legal Tumblrs: Because lawyers can do LOLcats too
Tumblr, the home of the animated gif and the LOLcat, is suddenly everywhere following its...
The 10 best #SaveUKJustice images
One of the happy side effects of the #SaveUKJustice campaign is that it has allowed...
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to...
Taxi for the bar – and the music industry?
The Stobart Group’s foray into law may just be the beginning of a campaign for...
‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’
Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...
‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
Lawyer commissions R’n’B ballad in his honour – then plays it on loop on his website
Visitors to the website of US lawyer Carl B Grant are greeted by a tuneful...
Wannabe Lord Chief Justices must pen 2,000 word essay to land top judge gig
In a departure from the traditional “tap on the shoulder” method of recruitment, applicants for...
BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...
How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it
As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time...
When a covering letter crosses the line from charmingly quirky to wacky
In a tough graduate law job market, there’s an argument for injecting a little personality...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Argent Chambers barrister Jerry Hayes in BBC Question Time nightmare
Hopes were high when it was announced that criminal barrister and former Tory MP Jerry...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...