Tag: Solicitors

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Dec 11 2013 12:23pm

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

Dec 10 2013 10:29am

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

Dec 9 2013 1:07pm

The number of students enrolling on the LPC is down 8.4% this year — with the course on average only 44% full

Amid continued concerns about the numbers of training contracts available, fewer students are doing the...

Dec 9 2013 9:02am

Just when you thought national newspaper picture editors couldn’t select a more inappropriate law photo…

They’ve all been at it lately. Last month the Guardian committed the relatively minor offence...

Dec 4 2013 8:59am

Training contract offers: how they once looked

Over the weekend BKRW Solicitors’ Oliver Kirk tweeted this picture of his training contract offer...

Dec 3 2013 8:49am

Law student sends multiple-claused note to neighbours warning them of party

Subclauses (i) and (ii) of clause (b) from this note sent over the weekend are...

Dec 2 2013 11:56am

‘The whole chargeable hours thing was a bit of a pain in the backside’

There’s a reason not many lawyers move back into practice after going in-house, says Mark...

Nov 29 2013 11:57am

The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes

Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...

Nov 29 2013 9:02am

Solicitor at top corporate firm is flogging GDL and LPC notes to hard-up students

EXCLUSIVE: A solicitor at leading law firm Kennedys is running a sideline selling law school...

Nov 28 2013 11:20am

Ashurst senior associate to stand trial over death of motorcyclist

A young solicitor at City law firm Ashurst has been ordered to stand trial in...

Nov 28 2013 10:43am

A lawyer’s commuting hell: distilled

Nobody enjoys commuting less than in-house lawyer Twitter sensation Legal Bizzle Has the journey to...

Nov 25 2013 9:22am

May the day never come that a lawyer is forced to sing this G4S company rock song

Did you know that the global security company which lawyers fear could land a legal...

Nov 20 2013 9:11am

5 types of lawyer who are destroying the legal profession

WaitroseLaw identifies her least favourite legal personality types — and offers tips on how to...

Nov 19 2013 12:13pm

Note to Guardian sub-editors: wrong procedure rules

Without wishing to appear pedantic…

Nov 18 2013 1:50pm

‘I applied to every firm in my home town for a training contract and they all rejected me without interview’

Rejection has proved a source of motivation for BPP chief Carl Lygo on his journey...

Nov 15 2013 10:40am

Twitter trolls take over the Law Society

Escalating tensions at the Law Society — which is facing dissent from its members over...

Nov 15 2013 9:10am

Named: The law firms with the most female lawyers and the law firms with the fewest

A comprehensive diversity survey contains some eye-catching results While women account for, on average, 56.5%...

Nov 14 2013 11:02am

Preliminary hearing takes place in a Magistrates Court car park with accused sitting in a taxi

On Tuesday, in what is believed to be a legal first, an entire Magistrates’ Court —...

Nov 14 2013 8:42am

The 18 stages of the LPC

A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) It...

Nov 12 2013 11:56am

Newspaper columnist at heart of plagiarism row is a solicitor working at HBJ Gateley

A solicitor with a sideline writing newspaper columns is at the centre of a plagiarism...

Nov 11 2013 9:42am