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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...
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...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Sir Edward Garnier MP, ex-Solicitor General, tries to amend out key sections of the Defamation...
Law Vicissitudes Meme Of The Week
DWF tells vac scheme candidates of taken-over firm Cobbetts that they need to re-apply to...
Podcast: Why Wannabe Barristers Should Do Their Time As Paralegals Before Doing The BPTC
The path from the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to paralegal purgatory is a well...
‘How Dare You Submit An Exhibit Which Has Been Stapled Not Tied?’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 12 April
Criminal barrister responds to Grayling’s idea that barristers’ legal aid fees should not exceed the...
End Of The Day Round-Up
David Wolfe QC has defended QASA, but Simon Myerson QC doesn’t rate what he had...
Did Rochman Landau Solicitor Use Firm Computer To Describe Himself As ‘UK’s Barack Obama’ On His Wikipedia Page?
Lawyers with political ambitions, beware… It has been revealed today that a Wikipedia description of...
The Company Charging Wannabe Lawyers Hundreds Of Pounds For Paralegal Job Interviews
As the odds of landing a training contract or pupillage grow longer, and wannabe lawyers...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 11 April
Breaking Bad could get spin-off based on criminal lawyer Saul Goodman [Unreality TV] A tracksuit...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Russell Brand goes on a tour of the Temple where he pretends to be Rumpole...
Should A Third Class LLB From Kent Uni Not Count As A Degree?
A Kent University LLB graduate has been denied access to the Canadian Bar – which...
‘I Think The Person Who Wrote The Bar Aptitude Test Got The Answers Wrong’
Barrister-to-be Sodslaw sits the practice version of the new Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) –...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 10 April
Law graduate was the architect of anti-Thatcher party in Glasgow [Mail Online] Margaret Thatcher and...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Britain’s highest paid criminal lawyers are to have their fees slashed by 30% [Evening Standard]...
How (Not) To Be A Trainee Solicitor
Congratulations. You got the training contract. You are now going to be a trainee solicitor...
10 Reasons To Be Kind To Lawyers
It’s Tuesday 9 April, which is of course Be Kind To Lawyers Day. At a...
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 9 April
Happy Be Kind To Lawyers Day! [Days Of The Year] Grayling to announce more legal...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Wait, who is Margaret Thatcher anyway? [Tumblr] Margaret Thatcher: tax barrister [BBC News] 21 incredibly...
Lawyer Who Fell Asleep In Court Blames Hippopotamus-Related ‘Spiritual Attack’ Originating In London
A human rights lawyer who fell asleep during a hearing in the Ghanaian Supreme Court...