Tag: Barristers
The bar launches first of its kind LGBT+ network
FreeBar aims to support sexuality and gender minority barristers through their career, and get heterosexual lawyers on board
The SRA is to call 16 witnesses from institutions on Lord Harley’s CV to decide if it’s legit
Five-day hearing to put to bed 18 months of confusion
Lawyers stir up animal pic Twitter storm against UN’s polarising Assange ruling
#ArbitrarilyDetained
Junior solicitor group campaigns against Brexit as City firm urges young people to vote
Corporate lawyers get into referendum spirit
Blackstone boosts pupillage award from £60k to £65k to keep pace with elite sets
Big-money commercial and public law set throws an extra £5,000 at its baby barristers
Law-themed cakes sweep the country as the Great Legal Bake proves a hit
Who said lawyers weren't creative?
Six ways to maximise your chances of landing a pupillage
Becoming-a-barrister hacks
Mechanic jailed for 27 year for killing ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal in her family home
Trusted family friend murdered aspiring barrister in August 2015
Ethnic diversity at the bar isn’t actually that bad (but it’s not that good either)
At least people are talking about it -- unlike social-economic diversity
Court of Appeal awaits as High Court blocks straight couple civil partnerships
Lawyers take to Twitter to vent their frustration
Lawyers form united front against Supreme Court double-murderer decision backlash
Legal profession flexes its muscles, at the expense of freedom of speech
We spoke to a top barrister about the effect of spiralling court fees on frontline legal practice
Hardwicke's Jasmine Murphy tells Katie King about behind-the-scenes attempts to keep the cases flowing
12 delightful photos of cats behaving like lawyers
People love dressing up their cats as lawyers -- it’s just a thing
Actors’ fury as mystery London QC pays £10,500 to appear as Broadway extra
"How would he feel if I offered him money to turn up as his clerk in a key trial?"
Amal Clooney’s human rights campaign trail snuffed by paps who just wanted to see what she was wearing
Could Amal follow in the footsteps of Cherie Blair and quit chambers?
Stop chasing the pot of gold: there’s no future for wannabe criminal lawyers
You’ll earn more money working down the pub
Bar Nursery North: Second crèche opens up for barristers’ babies in bid to boost gender diversity
Leeds childcare scheme follows success of legal London venture
I went to watch the civil partnerships case at the High Court and even the judge didn’t understand it
And the court was freezing
Law grad vacancies down 16% since 2005 while accountancy places soar by 68%
Number-crunchers in demand but law still pays more
Banning things is ‘curse of our age’
Brits seem to want to ban everything nowadays
Junior lawyers open up about stress
Challenges of the job becoming less of a taboo