Tag: Barristers
9 young lawyers to follow on social media for a glimpse into the glamorous side of law
An alternative insight into the legal profession
Barrister wins charity walk photo contest with shot of lawyers breaking rules
Mental Capacity Act specialist ramps up the comedy and dispels the boring Chancery lawyer stereotype
Event: Alternatives for wannabe barristers — the City, in-house and academia
Legal Cheek session at Inner Temple featuring a panel of top solicitors and barristers — open to all law students, with free tickets available below
Direct access in spotlight after barrister is slapped with 11 misconduct findings
Immigration specialist vows to appeal ruling, which came after he had been named and shamed by ombudsman at the end of last year
Vast majority of crime barristers back picket lines to oppose legal aid reforms
First challenge for newbie Justice Secretary Gove could be to dodge his way through striking lawyers looking to block “dual provider scheme”
‘Grayling and Gove attempt to go unnoticed’ — the London Legal Walk in pics and tweets
The legal great and good were in attendance for yet another successful charity walk -- but were there some unwelcome guests?
Chuka ‘no’ shocka, Sir Keir declines – only Lamb remains as lawyer party leader candidate
But is former East Anglia employment partner actually being led to electoral slaughter?
Sheffield barrister that fled justice given four years for assaulting girl
Crimewatch alert led to arrest at Birmingham Airport of former St John’s Buildings lawyer
Campaigners at war over Human Rights Act petition
Online bid to force a referendum has picked up nearly 200,000 signatures, but the experts reckon it’s counterproductive
This is what one chambers’ haul of pupillage applications looks like
A 40-member set in the Temple is swamped with pleas from wannabe barristers -- and it won’t be the only one
Tory win sounds death knell for criminal bar, predicts top QC
Return of an even more powerful and unfettered Chris Grayling to the woolsack does not bode well for wannabe legal aid lawyers
Pupillage Gateway applications fall by 9%
Hard evidence that law students are turning their backs on the bar
Legal Cheek election poll results: law students and lawyers back Labour
Ed Miliband’s margin over the Conservatives is narrow, but enough to give the red rose party an outright majority
A lido for lawyers: Crowdfunding bid launched to create floating swimming pool opposite Temple
As criminal bar struggles to stay afloat, £10 million plan unveiled to build epic bathing facilities in Inns of Court section of River Thames
The Judge Rules: Offering a glass of wine doesn’t amount to harassment
Women law students and young female lawyers doubtless have to battle leery male counterparts -- but there are gradations of perviness
University of Law tight-lipped over BPTC launch for Leeds and Manchester
So-called northern powerhouse cities already have 285 bar courses on offer -- and only 26 pupillage places
Clifford Chance outstrips rivals in bid to field most charity walkers
Law firms can’t resist competing with each other -- even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates
Litigant-in-person files notice to ‘f*ck this court and everything it stands for’
This expletive-fuelled -- but strangely nearly cogent -- notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever
9 hateful Daily Mail comments about lawyers prompted by the illegal cycling of Justine Thornton
Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers
Pupillage places slip below the 400 mark for the first time
Training contracts tumbled yesterday, now it’s the turn of wannabe barristers to face bad news …
Election latest: some voters aren’t that sold on lawyer candidates
One Tory newbie barrister in standing in Hampshire, and our old friend the former telly producer turned Justice Secretary come in for flack