Tag: Solicitors

Lord of LinkedIn saga gets a new chapter

Latest wheeze from Chancery Lane prompts a look at the marketing gurus’ clichéd view of lawyers and the legal profession

Middle Temple's library alone costs £725,000-a-year to maintain -- and is quieter than ever now all those books are available online

Legal profession regulatory bodies take a dim view of class-A convictions, but cases are assessed individually

There may be confusion about the right of solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker to call himself ‘Lord Harley of Counsel’. But the man is the undisputed Lord of LinkedIn

Speaking exclusively to Legal Cheek, Alan Blacker — who also goes by the title Lord Harley — hits back at Crown Court judge who questioned his appearance, title and qualifications

Headline figures slam judiciary for being public school-educated toffs, but provides little insight demographics of wider sectors

EXCLUSIVE: Outsourcing stifles training contract growth at City law firms -- reductions in London graduate intake at Baker & McKenzie and Allen & Overy following Northern Ireland support office ventures

Jury still out on whether Justice Secretary Grayling as well as Law Society and Bar...

Social services take note -- kebabs should be promoted to the front line in the battle against domestic violence. At least, that’s the view of a licensing lawyer in Scotland

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan nominates the bête noir of much of the legal profession to take a drenching -- while other luminaries are also in the spotlight

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

What a bank holiday means to pupil barristers

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

Just as the weather turns, solicitors embrace viral summer craze

Legal commentator doyen Joshua Rozenberg leads the charge against a high street practice that appears to have a penchant for lifting other writers’ words

Mayo Wynne Baxter trainee Christina Spencer is mystified at newspaper's suggestion that she has quit her legal career

King’s College London student Jessy Howard reports from the mini-pupillage and law firm work placement front line via Legal Cheek‘s new ‘Lawyer Looks’ Pinterest board

Decisions could be swayed by trends in law firm graduate recruitment such as 'CV blind'

Court canteens — menus range from the ridiculous to the dangerous

Law student blackmails and kills to secure job at top firm