Tag: Barristers
‘They tried to get lawyers’: Devastating cuts to legal aid prevented Grenfell Tower residents accessing advice over safety concerns
Legal profession offers pro bono support to blaze victims
Open thread: What’s it like to be a barrister?
Share your experiences with the next generation of bar wannabes below the line
Doughty Street silk Keir Starmer is the ‘right person’ to get us a Brexit deal, says The Independent
Newspaper backs Labour MP over Tory David Davis
Exclusive: The Inns of Court are preparing to launch a new BPTC
Inns 'seriously considering' new course, but will they go it alone or get a university involved?
A poem: ‘Oh, I wish I’d looked after me brief!’
Legal Cheek's resident funny man Wigapedia returns with an ode to barristers' briefs
Freshfields, Clifford Chance, BLP, Ashurst and DWF lawyers among 300 to offer support following Manchester bombing pro bono appeal
Twenty-two people were killed and dozens injured after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande gig
High Court judge ‘kissed on the cheek’ during Middle Temple Lane robbery, court hears
Sir Robin Knowles QC was allegedly mugged by man clutching champagne bottle stolen from chambers
BSB approves shared parental leave scheme for self-employed barristers
Regulator hopes the move will encourage more gender diversity within the profession
Brexit: Jolyon Maugham’s Irish High Court challenge has been discontinued
QC crowdfunded £70,000
Snap election series: The bar is ‘excellent groundwork’ for life as an MP, says lawyer turned Conservative candidate
Suella Fernandes shares her thoughts from the campaign trail
Barristers and football agents team up to kick off new ‘innovative’ legal business
VII Law becomes the bar’s first licensed ABS
Revealed: 60% of lawyers think visible tattoos are not acceptable in their firms and chambers
Could we see a discrimination case in the near future?
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Pro bono appeal: Manchester Law Society calls on lawyers to help victims of arena terrorist attack
Twenty-two people killed after suicide bomber targeted Ariana Grande concert
London Legal Walk: Lawyers descend on sun-soaked capital for annual 10km charity event
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The Trial: Lawyers react to new docudrama starring real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge
‘First major inaccuracy, it started on time’
Social media giggles as national newspaper describes lawyer as ‘a full QC’
The next ‘top barrister’?
A Latham & Watkins lawyer is standing for UKIP in the general election
Tim Page is counsel at the US giant’s London office
Emotions run high in Middle Temple Hall as barristers star alongside actors in touching play about life on death row
Two of the cast members had been sentenced to death themselves
Is the bar’s appeal to the best graduates destroying the magic circle?
In America the top legal talent joins law firms -- but not always in Britain