Tag: BPTC
‘We Must End Oxbridge’s Stranglehold On The Bar And Look Instead To The Russell Group’
OccupyTheInns argues that the recent increase of Oxbridge representation among pupil barristers is bad news...
JOB ALERT: Criminal Paralegal
Ed note: This is the first in a regular series of job alerts we’ll be...
*Inns Of Court Scholarship Deadline Alert*
Wannabe barristers who forget to apply for a lucrative Inns of Court scholarship may find...
Please, No More ‘Nietzsche And The Law’! Why Americans Are Looking Enviously At The GDL Route To Legal Qualification
In comparison to our odd system of legal education – which sprawls haphazardly from the...
Entry To The Bar: ‘Let The Cream Rise To The Top’
OccupyTheInns disagrees with the call made by Mr Justice Burton at Saturday’s Young Bar Conference...
Legal Cheek’s Poetry Corner
To mark National Poetry Day, we put out a call on Twitter for law-related verse....
How To Survive The Bar Professional Training Course
After finally securing a pupillage over the summer, OccupyTheInns returns to offer his words of...
Inn The Know: Gossip That’s Too Scurrilous To Publish In Full, But Too Juicy To Waste
Editorial note: welcome to Legal Cheek’s new gossip column. It’ll run every time we get...
Didn’t Get a Pupillage? Well, There’s Always Origami
Hope is gradually fading for this year’s batch of BPTC graduates without pupillages as the...
Meet The Solicitors With Second Jobs As Writers For Essay Companies That Target Students
Yesterday, we brought you news of an essay-writing company that pays LPC and BPTC graduates...
Might Even Graduates Of ‘Reputable’ Unis Struggle To Write Decent Essays When They’re Paid Just £43 Per 1,000 Words?
Last week, an essay-writing company posted an ad seeking law graduates with “a minimum Undergraduate...
Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract
There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...
The Post-BPTC Files: Starting An Internship Aged 28 ‘Wasn’t The Life I’d Envisaged’ – But It Worked Out Alright
Editorial note: Last month Gemma Amran turned the conventional pupillage hunt narrative on its head...
Jobless Graduates Left At Whim Of Law Firms’ Make-It-Up-As-You-Go-Along Recruitment Procedures
Last month Kearns Solicitors placed an advert in Counsel magazine seeking LPC and BPTC graduates...
Restricting The BPTC To Students Who’ve Already Bagged a Pupillage Wouldn’t Breach Competition Law…
…but it would put pressure on chambers to fund the course – and could lead...
Farewell Silk, Now Time To Come Up With a New Mythology For The Bar
The defining images in the second series of BBC legal drama Silk – which drew...
Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis
The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that...
Bar Council Chair’s Pupillage ‘Great Concern’ Sparks Evening Standard Letter Page Response Flurry
Yesterday’s Evening Standard featured several letters – including, naturally, a missal dispatched from Legal Cheek...
Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas
Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something...
Complain About The BSB At Your Peril, Bar Students – ‘Independent’ Complaints Body Is Chaired By BSB Member
A recent article, ‘EXCLUSIVE: BPTC Students Point Finger At Bar Standards Board Following ‘Disastrous’ And...
Deadline Disbelief As Pupillage Portal DOESN’T Go Down
There is widespread shock among Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students today after the Pupillage...