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Immigration solicitors on naughty step as 4 law firms receive High Court rebuke

A vintage few months for judicial spankings has yielded yet another lawyer takedown — and...

Feb 21 2014 9:23am

Corporate lawyers can be divided into ‘grinders, minders and finders’

Advancing to the higher echelons of BigLaw requires an understanding of how professional services firms work, writes Norton Rose Fulbright partner Madhavi Gosavi.

Feb 21 2014 9:11am

Morning round-up: Friday 21 February

The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.

Feb 21 2014 7:55am

How to get people to give you money to become a lawyer

Bagging a scholarship isn't as hard as students often imagine.

Feb 20 2014 2:49pm

A journey through a pimped-up legal profession with gangsta app Gizoogle

Gizoogle is a gangsta version of Google, through which a pimped-up version of the internet can be accessed. The lawyers who populate this realm do things differently.

Feb 20 2014 11:30am

Morning round-up: Thursday 20 February

The morning's top legal news stories and social media posts.

Feb 20 2014 7:58am

The 12 most popular law school memes on the internet

Images propelled to fame by Facebook page 'Law School Memes'.

Feb 19 2014 1:19pm

Barristers rubbish Public Defender Service

A bin at Cardiff Crown Court has felt the full force of barristers' dislike for the much-maligned PDS.

Feb 19 2014 9:39am

QC list 2014: Big jump in ethnic minority silks, but why so few women still?

Solicitor-advocate numbers up sharply too, but most new appointments are white male barristers.

Feb 19 2014 8:03am

Is DLA boss Sir Nigel Knowles the most boring person on Twitter?

To have led DLA Piper from regional law firm to global behemoth suggests that Sir Nigel Knowles has a considerable personality. But he hasn't shown much of it on Twitter since he began tweeting last year.

Feb 18 2014 10:40am

HM Courts & Tribunals Service embraces cutting edge gaming technology

This photo of a mystery Crown Court waiting room appeared on Reddit a few days...

Feb 18 2014 9:11am

Third six pupil who wowed Bar with legal aid cuts speech is made a tenant at last

A rare good news story for the criminal branch of the legal profession.

Feb 17 2014 11:06am

Do you remember your first Lawgasm?

The Negative Lawgasm: An Obscenity Lawyer Valentine’s Sex Special

Feb 14 2014 10:48am

‘Not everyone who drops sh*t on you is your enemy’

During a journey from academia to management retiring University of Law president Nigel Savage accumulated a few basic rules.

Feb 14 2014 9:03am

Happy Valentine’s Day, law nerds

Law students mark February 14th in style.

Feb 14 2014 8:06am

9 surprising historical facts about training contracts

A new blog on English legal history contains some fascinating titbits of information.

Feb 13 2014 12:49pm