Tag: Lawyers

As a new team arrives at beleaguered Chancery Lane, Legal Cheek sets out the issues the solicitors’ profession leadership should be addressing for law students and young lawyers

20 years on and classic lawyer bust-up has resurfaced on viral video site Break.com

Court canteens — menus range from the ridiculous to the dangerous

Renowned American comedian and actor started movie career in forgettable role as a courtroom hack

Law student blackmails and kills to secure job at top firm

The Law Society’s excellent adventure kicks off again this year with 17 award categories for solicitors, including a gong for training

The rocketing number of law graduates -- and the topsy-like growth of the legal profession over the last generation -- has got The Times worried. But the numbers aren’t as simple as they seem

Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers

Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor

A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying -- but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper

Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement's foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues

The craze of getting the general public to finance a business -- and run the risk of failure -- has taken a giant leap in the legal profession

Life as a solicitor or barrister isn't always what it seems

"Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks.

Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins.

Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them

High street law firm newbies kitted out in silly clobber while the skateboarder from Dirty Sanchez takes over business development.

33 years on, one Slaughter and May home video star is still at the firm, another is at Herbert Smith Freehills, while the solicitor behind the camera has left the law altogether.

Lawyer also has a yellow and green office, a yellow and green car and only eats yellow and green food.

A chap standing for the bench in the home of country music bears some striking resemblances to the man with the Lawgiver pistol and purveyor of summary executions

It was traumatic and shoes were hurled from windows, but eventually the country’s “top” divorce lawyer was able to sign her own fail-safe document