Tag: Barristers
‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’
Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...
Exclusive interview: Founder of Facebook sensation ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ reveals all (apart from his identity)
If the Midlands-based LLB student behind ‘Things Law Students Don’t Say’ was to mobilise the...
The first day of the legal year: as documented via the smartphones of the nation’s top lawyers
Yesterday was, of course, the first day of the legal year. As is tradition, the...
Barrister crosses that not-so-fine line between ‘fearless advocacy’ and ‘courtroom anarchy’
The juicy content of the final Court of Appeal judgment of outgoing Lord Chief Justice...
‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’
After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...
Ill-thought through university law faculty advert of the week
It seems that no one at Bradford University anticipated the comic effect of someone actually...
The legal profession’s first tweets
It’s easy to forget that today’s highly-accomplished legal Twitterati members were once callow social media...
Tooks Chambers to be dissolved
After months of rumours about its imminent demise, and a host of high profile departures,...
Did justice secretary Chris Grayling do a mini-pupillage this summer?
A barrister has made public an email exchange with Chris Grayling in which the justice...
‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’
In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...
‘If you forget that everything can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice, you’ll be in trouble’
In a line of work that’s not exactly secure, it’s helpful to gain early experience...
Does the way that lawyers are encouraged to think and work make them vulnerable to depression?
A high stress job combined with a temperamental inclination to analyse and pick apart can...
Pupillage-less BPTC grad among the ‘25 most influential Londoners aged under 25′
There’s no doubt that Gabrielle Turnquest‘s achievement in becoming the youngest person to be called...
Starting pupillage: ‘So much to learn but hopefully a chance to teach a little too’
Two years after being called to the Bar, OccupyTheInns prepares to become a fully-fledged barrister...
What lawyers can learn from legal dramas
As the return of hit BBC barrister series Silk nears, WaitroseLaw considers the practical lessons...
Event: If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
On the evening of Thursday 10th October six authors of posts in Legal Cheek‘s ‘If...
Don’t you step into my courtroom wearing blue suede trainers, judge tells lawyer
Recently we reported on the judge who sent a defendant to the cells for wearing...
Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday’s The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless —...
Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter
Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of...
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...