Tag: Solicitors
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol
A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...
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...
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?
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...
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...
Training contract offers: how they once looked
Over the weekend BKRW Solicitors’ Oliver Kirk tweeted this picture of his training contract offer...
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...
‘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...
The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes
Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...
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...
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...
A lawyer’s commuting hell: distilled
Nobody enjoys commuting less than in-house lawyer Twitter sensation Legal Bizzle Has the journey to...
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...
5 types of lawyer who are destroying the legal profession
WaitroseLaw identifies her least favourite legal personality types — and offers tips on how to...
Note to Guardian sub-editors: wrong procedure rules
Without wishing to appear pedantic…
‘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...
Twitter trolls take over the Law Society
Escalating tensions at the Law Society — which is facing dissent from its members over...
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%...
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 —...
The 18 stages of the LPC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) It...
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...