Tag: Barristers

Competition for pupillage fiercer than ever, Bar Council report finds

Number of applicants chasing each pupillage spot 'steadily increasing' every year

Sep 29 2021 9:23am

New name, new home: one leading London chambers on its major shake-up

Joint heads of Gatehouse Chambers, Brie Stevens-Hoare QC and PJ Kirby QC, invited Legal Cheek’s Phoebe Mather for an exclusive tour of the set’s new home and to discuss its recent rebranding

Sep 24 2021 12:38pm

£6 million up for grabs as Inns open bar scholarship applications

You've got to be in it to win it 🤑

Sep 22 2021 12:54pm

Should future lawyers avoid wearing brown shoes?

Unwritten rule touches a nerve

Sep 20 2021 9:37am

Top chambers join forces to launch new diversity mentoring scheme

Targets bar hopefuls seeking to specialise in planning, property and public law

Sep 16 2021 9:02am

Cyber-hacked barristers win High Court judgment against ‘persons unknown’

Judge orders mystery criminals to hand over any info they may have obtained

Sep 15 2021 11:52am

Barrister apprenticeships? Quite possibly says pupillage expert

There are barriers to overcome, but these are not 'insurmountable'

Sep 10 2021 11:09am

‘Significant funds’ drained from bar charity’s bank account without permission

Exclusive: Bridging the Bar says cash has since been returned

Sep 9 2021 9:25am

Pupil barrister pay hits £75,000 as top London sets boost awards

Rises at One Essex Court, Monckton, Matrix, 7KBW, 39 Essex and Outer Temple

Aug 4 2021 10:47am

What we learnt during The Legal Cheek-ULaw Summer 2021 Virtual Vacation Scheme

Southampton University student Juliet Griffiths gets insights into commercial law

Jul 28 2021 4:26pm

Pupil barrister numbers down nearly a third in 30 years

757 in 1991 ⤵️ 542 in 2020

Jul 28 2021 11:33am

Dominic Cummings brands legal Twitter royalty as ‘charlatans’

Former Downing Street adviser lashes leading lawyers over Brexit views

Jul 26 2021 1:05pm

Top judge slams BSB over ‘injustice’ to student wrongly kicked off bar training course

Ryan Eve vindicated in High Court after regulator's blunders

Jul 23 2021 11:30am

Applications now open for Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair

Leading chambers and law schools return on 9 October for UK's biggest bar careers event

Jul 20 2021 9:54am

Bar course pass rates drop 18% during pandemic

Just 10% of BPTC grads started pupillage in 2020-21, new stats show

Jul 16 2021 10:24am

Elon Musk mocks British wig-wearing barristers

'Mfs in the 1700s saw this hairstyle and were like YOOOO 🔥🔥🔥'

Jul 8 2021 10:51am