Tag: Barristers

Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?

The haves and the have nots

Jan 13 2017 3:02pm

Securing pupillage — It’s a jungle out there!!

Katya Hosking, of Devereux Chambers, guides you through

Jan 13 2017 10:07am

Taking the fear out of being different at the bar

Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC on why she’s backing FreeBar, a new bar-wide LGBT+ initiative

Jan 12 2017 10:50am

Chambers boost pay as pupillage applications open

Hardwicke, 2 Temple Gardens, Littleton and Doughty Street all up their awards

Jan 9 2017 2:09pm

Hardwicke barrister to create hipster-esque pop-up restaurant for charity

All proceeds from the five-course culinary experience go to Save the Children

Jan 9 2017 1:16pm

MoJ’s criminal bar pay proposals under fire over fears baby barristers will lose out

Legal aid changes described as 'a nasty whack for junior hacks'

Jan 6 2017 9:43am

Bar Council appoints crime QC as second non-London chairman in three years

And commercial rookie is new Young Bar chief

Jan 4 2017 9:09am

‘Law has become a massive gravy train’: Tabloid newspaper kicks off 2017 with a scathing anti-lawyer article

Seems the Daily Mail hasn't made a 'be nicer to the legal profession' resolution

Jan 3 2017 12:40pm

The 15 most popular Legal Cheek stories of 2016

A look back on the top posts that hauled in the most hits

Dec 27 2016 9:22am

#Freelegaltips: Lawyers take to Twitter to share hilarious stories of client stupidity

Don't thrust your genitalia through a stranger's letterbox

Dec 22 2016 10:12am

Interview: The Linklaters solicitor and the 5 Paper Buildings barrister who swapped cases for cakes

They have very different stories, but both agree working in law made them “miserable”

Dec 20 2016 9:05am

Mayor Sadiq Khan appoints another lawyer to top London politics post

Barrister who saved Fabric nightclub tasked with boosting capital’s night-time economy

Dec 19 2016 12:59pm

Legal aid pay row: Doughty Street QC rounds on claims lawyers’ earnings have ‘rocketed’

Publicly funded barristers still broke, says publicly funded barrister

Dec 19 2016 10:25am

Christmas time merger for 1 Gray’s Inn Square and Mansfield Chambers

Media heavyweights collide as Charlotte Proudman’s former set joins forces with Barbara Hewson’s

Dec 16 2016 2:58pm

Leading silk slapped with £2,000 fine for making inappropriate ‘sexual advances’ towards woman at hotel bar

Former barrister of the year "failed to act with integrity", regulator finds

Dec 16 2016 2:18pm

QC at the centre of Brexit legal challenge forced to defend working class background in wake of Twitter abuse

Yes my father is an ex-Etonian author, but he denied paternity, says Jolyon Maugham

Dec 15 2016 12:16pm

Bristol University law student lands advocacy honours in BPP-backed national competition

Aspiring barrister Lucy Bennett crowned advocate of the year

Dec 15 2016 9:52am