Tag: Barristers
Number of bad-boy barristers drops as disbarments tumbled last year
Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards
Fact check: Oxbridge-obsessed chambers claims to be a ‘varied and diverse place’
20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter
Meet the ‘Humans of Law’
Inspired by global social media sensation “Humans of New York”, two Legal Cheek work experience students have set up a legal profession version
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With the courts closed and the legal profession in holiday mode, what better opportunity to do lots of pointless presentations?
Two silks and a regional law firm have best High Court ‘win rates’, says survey
Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back
The mystery of the vertically-challenged barristers
Bar Council tweet highlights a new set of Hobbit-sized lawyers
‘My Family’ actor with drugs record bids to be human rights barrister
Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL
Full transcript of judge’s luggage rant at British Airways lawyers emerges
What appears to be court stenographer’s note appears online
Legal Cheek hit with take-down notice over barrister and sheep picture
Marketing managers -- donchya just love ‘em. Especially po-faced examples in the legal profession
#LawyerSchmovies: 13 top movie titles improved by references to the law
The latest social media craze is all about law and films
Top barrister and London mayor allegedly flout cycling laws together
Lawyer accepting a dangerous midnight “backie” last week also happens to be BoJo’s wife
Crime legal aid lawyers paying the price for years of fat cat fees, says top silk
Incendiary remarks could divide profession as barristers head to picket lines today in support of solicitors' battle against MoJ rate cuts
Crime barrister slapped with £2,000 fine for dropping big ‘N-word’ bomb
Matthew Lawson’s profile no longer on Carmelite Chambers website after calling woman a "nigger bitch"
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Supervisor tells pupil she looks ‘quite f*ckable’ — report highlights sexism at bar
Two surveys this week illustrate just how much work bar leaders have to do to drive out the Fred Flintstone attitudes
Legal aid strike falling apart as big firms head back to work
Exclusive: Rumours suggest that core group has struck a deal on verge of Ministry of Justice meeting
From wasps to car-hire — junior lawyers need to diversify
There are many ways to exhibit commercial awareness...
Gove calls make-or-break meeting in bid to resolve crime legal aid dispute
Four lawyer lobbying groups will meet Justice Secretary -- but Law Society and Bar Council are in the cold
War of words at Milton Keynes County Court
Kiss good-bye to lawyer civility
Award-winning junior barrister Connor Johnston says lawyers can still make a go of legal aid
Housing law specialist and winner of Legal Aid Practitioners Group gong remains positive in face of cuts
Solicitors are rubbish at the ‘art’ of Crown Court advocacy, says top Tory QC
Silk who defended the Krays also aggrieved by modern law firm tendency to "tie papers with rubber bands instead of tape"