Tag: Solicitors

Too many lawyers? Blame the bankers

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

Aug 6 2014 1:26pm

Revealed: the really badly written and fake-sounding LPC scam emails that have spurred SRA warning

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

Aug 6 2014 9:54am

The unlucky law firm which went from sharing name with Holocaust denier to sharing name with terrorist group

David M Irving Solicitors may be rueing its 2007 ‘Isis Legal’ rebrand

Aug 5 2014 9:28am

Legal pic of the day

On today's centenary of the start of the first world war, this photo shows members of the Inns of Court Regiment being drilled in Hertfordshire during the conflict

Aug 4 2014 3:31pm

Edinburgh Uni law graduate cracks America with hilarious ad for his new firm

Scottish solicitor Peter Reid, who moved to Texas in 2010, succeeds where many Brits have failed as he wows US with YouTube masterpiece

Aug 4 2014 2:28pm

Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year

First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially

Aug 4 2014 8:59am

Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf sale’ sign all day?

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

Jul 31 2014 9:41am

Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry

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

Jul 30 2014 11:38am

Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become a luxury hotel

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

Jul 30 2014 9:06am

Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm

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

Jul 29 2014 12:14pm

Law: the fantasy Vs the reality

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

Jul 29 2014 9:18am

The spiritual home of Wednesbury Unreasonableness is for sale

West Midlands cinema at heart of Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp goes on the market

Jul 28 2014 9:48am

This sign for the toilets in the Royal Courts of Justice goes beyond everyday sexism

Female advocates, male non-advocates and wheelchair users are all flummoxed by this sign for the toilets at the Royal Courts of Justice

Jul 25 2014 1:55pm

Mayer Brown confirms drop in training contract numbers from 20 to 15 since 2012

Reduction in trainee numbers has taken place over two years as part of a bid to boost firm's retention rate

Jul 25 2014 1:04pm

The 8 most delightful vac scheme jollies of the summer

The City of London’s top law firms have, once again, been treating their vac schemers to some wonderful perks that may or may not prove to be a regular feature of their future lawyer lives

Jul 25 2014 9:22am

There is a real billboard advertising the services of Saul Goodman’s junior lawyer self — and the phone number works

Seemingly innocuous lawyer advert is in fact a clever publicity stunt for Breaking Bad spin-off

Jul 24 2014 2:03pm

Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character

Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners

Jul 22 2014 2:51pm

Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices

Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union

Jul 22 2014 12:06pm

A reading from the Book of Mitchell

Wigapedia draws upon Biblical inspiration to follow the twists and turns of the Jackson reforms

Jul 22 2014 9:12am

Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The Paras’

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

Jul 21 2014 9:18am