Tag: Blogs

‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’

After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...

Jul 5 2013 12:25pm

‘A golden opportunity to promote the cause of talent has been missed’

In not distinguishing between graduates of Russell Group and non-traditional universities, the Legal Education and...

Jun 27 2013 1:25pm

‘Don’t sweat the small stuff, do sweat the big stuff – and learn to tell the difference’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

Jun 21 2013 9:30am

Legal typos: 7 absolute howlers

Oh how we clinical negligence practitioners laughed when a pfannenstiel incision — which is a...

Jun 14 2013 12:34pm

How I became a tech start-up lawyer

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

Jun 14 2013 9:18am

‘Journalists probably deal with more law than anyone else – including lawyers’

25 years ago I thought I had left the law behind, writes media law consultant...

May 31 2013 9:45am

Why do wannabe barristers have to accept their BPTC place before they know if they’ve got an Inns scholarship?

The conventional wisdom is that students are unwise to do the Bar Professional Training Course...

May 30 2013 9:29am

10 of the best Lord Justice Ward lines

Last month, retiring Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Ward used his penultimate judgment to...

May 29 2013 1:30pm

‘Never be too rigid in your thinking’

My careers guidance went something like this, writes Silverman Sherliker partner Jennie Kreser in the...

May 24 2013 8:06am

‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’

The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...

May 22 2013 9:22am

Legal Tumblrs: Because lawyers can do LOLcats too

Tumblr, the home of the animated gif and the LOLcat, is suddenly everywhere following its...

May 21 2013 1:37pm

‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’

A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...

May 16 2013 1:37pm

How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?

Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...

May 13 2013 9:20am

‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’

In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...

May 10 2013 12:04pm

Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom

A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...

May 8 2013 11:14am

Five terrible comedy law student videos

As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...

Apr 30 2013 9:40am

How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day

Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...

Apr 25 2013 9:59am

‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’

Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...

Apr 19 2013 9:33am

You Have To Go All The Way With The GDL – But An LLB Gives You Options

When I was 16, I received my GCSE results and discovered that I had got...

Apr 17 2013 1:47pm

Law Revision #Pippatips

It’s exam time, and the legal blogosphere is awash with revision tip articles – rather...

Apr 16 2013 1:01pm