Senior barrister told BPTC student ‘I don’t trust fags like you’, shocking new LGBT+ research reveals
Homophobia appears to be worse at the bar than it is across other workplaces
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Commissioner ‘confident’ Labour-backed legal aid report, launched 100 days after Grenfell fire, will make it to the statute books
£400 million plan could revolutionise justice system
Chemsex junior barrister opens up about boyfriend’s death and his suspension from legal profession
Henry Hendron admits he turned to drugs to escape the pressure of his legal career
‘I am mid-sentence’: Brexit case barristers clash in House of Lords debate
Lords Pannick and Keen did not see eye to eye
The Secret Barrister just destroyed the courts service for calling its users ‘customers’
This language is a virus, says anonymous advocate
Gina Miller on her love for Lord Sumption, signing law student autographs and why she only sleeps four hours a night
Legal Cheek interviews the woman who made constitutional law sexy
Number of lawyers in Justice Committee drops by almost a third as new members revealed
Now there’s only one solicitor
David Lammy is right to encourage use of modern slavery laws, says human rights lawyer
MP’s report recommends more prosecutions under modern slavery legislation
Amal Clooney is ‘the Mensa member’s crumpet,’ proclaims top fashionista
Fashion journalist fawns over Doughty Street barrister
Michael Mansfield QC joins Nexus Chambers following mass exodus at old set
Exclusive: Top silk follows tenants out the door
Parking company sues top QC, loses
Doughty Street barrister achieves what fish and chip shop owner Barry Beavis couldn’t
The best law books that aren’t To Kill a Mockingbird
Legal Cheek team’s picks
‘Karate lawyer’ promises to take out corrupt judges using martial arts expertise in hilarious spoof advert
‘What I lack in formal legal qualifications, I make up for in karate moves’
Fake barrister listed on genuine chambers website is jailed for defrauding terminally ill woman out of £92,000
He falsely claimed to have a law degree from the University of London
Female barristers granted access to top London court’s male-only robing room
Gender should play no part in the role or status of an advocate, says Southwark judge
Watch what you tweet: CPS promises to crack down on social media hate crime
But lawyers have concerns
Air justice! Judge Rinder takes chopper to court in adrenaline-fuelled advert
Mission Impossible-esque promo also features a leather clad clerk and a high-powered motorbike
Mass exodus at Mansfield 1 Gray’s Inn Square as 20 barristers join Goldsmith Chambers
Exclusive: Just eight months after merger deal
Lawyers ‘glad’ they didn’t have to cross examine Taylor Swift as pop star’s sassy testimony hits headlines
‘He had a handful of my ass’
‘Sip test’: Coffee-loving lawyers slam new security rules for bringing drinks into court
‘Is this really necessary?’
‘Introduce quotas for state school educated barristers and judges,’ suggests Guardian journalist
Ellie Mae O’Hagan tells Legal Cheek she hopes column will help ‘address the problem of elitism’
Former Kent Uni criminology student robs robing room after posing as pupil barrister to get past Old Bailey security
He has previous for stealing law books from King’s College London library
Why do barrister gowns look so weird from the back?
Some think it’s so money can be dropped inside
Complaints about barristers’ social media behaviour on the rise
But many are dismissed as free speech
Late night and early morning courts are ‘not a disguised attempt’ to force lawyers to work more, insists top judge
Lord Fulford moves to soothe profession after outcry over 8am-8pm justice
I got a 2:2 in drama — does it even matter how well I do in my GDL and BPTC?
I’m expecting a distinction
Keir Starmer QC turns down Mishcon de Reya job
Labour MP and Shadow Brexit Sec declines City advisory role owing to ‘other commitments’
Freshfields partner who joined the firm in 1984 reveals he’s quitting to pursue pupillage dream
Competition litigation expert Jon Lawrence is Brick Court bound
Barrister who was disbarred after forging Lady Hale letter sued for £200,000 by ex-client
Alexander Mercouris has reinvented himself as a Russian commentator, his former client isn’t happy about this
Attorney General to throw Hawaiian ‘Summer Beach Party’ at government law offices
Grass skirts at the ready
Put a cork in it! Mail Online expresses shock at ‘barristers earning £300,000 a year’ recommending budget supermarket wine
Tabloid picked up on comments made by two lawyers in Counsel Magazine
Another Doughty Street barrister gets the tabloid treatment
Jennifer Robinson caught in crossfire as newspapers target key Labour figure
BSB balls-up: 26 bar students see marks changed following ethics exam ‘clerical errors’ chaos
Regulator has now told providers to release results
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
Judge Rinder declares he loves fan selfies, so here are some of our favourites of his
Features photos with Take That, fellow lawyers, and the Legal Cheek team
Inner Temple to build ‘education and training centre’ for wannabe barristers
Radical redevelopment includes 120-seat lecture theatre and break out spaces
I want to be a barrister but now I’ve been offered a training contract — what do I do?
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‘It wasn’t an easy decision’: Student quit law degree to become porn star over concerns about money and graduate job prospects
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Fake Squire Patton Boggs website given court approval in bizarre decision
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Senior barrister told BPTC student ‘I don’t trust fags like you’, shocking new LGBT+ research reveals
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