Tag: Solicitors
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
How to survive the first terrifying weeks as a newly qualified solicitor
You never forget your first. Your pulse rockets, your stomach turns over uncomfortably and your...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...
Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit bottoms
A Crown Court judge sent a criminal to the cells for nearly three hours because...
‘Many, particularly in their early careers, seek to disguise themselves as lawyers’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Dalston law firm’s website is so awful that it’s ironically extremely cool
If this man were to continue walking down the road in east London hipster enclave...
On the menu: lawyers
Yesterday food blog Accidental Flatlander posted a photo that will chill the blood of solicitors...
The 10 best vac scheme selfies of the summer
Following the popularity of the ‘The 15 best mini-pupil selfies of the summer’, we returned...
Law firm pens are officially everywhere
Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...
UK legal education system given unlikely boost by Obama
The messy postgraduate route to qualifying as a lawyer in England and Wales comes in...
Podcast: What sexy law-related careers are there other than the Bar?
Like many young hopefuls, Thomas Connelly and Nathan Akhavan-Moossavi both found themselves drawn to the...
Podcast: Could doing something outrageous help you get a training contract?
Cambridge law student Sebastian Salek (pictured above left with Legal Cheek‘s Tom Webb and Kevin...
The male barrister hottie list ‘subverted expectations’ — the female one ‘reinforces the most reactionary of ideas’
YourBarristerBoyfriend’s original list is well-written, hilarious and has pictures of good-looking shirtless barristers. Naturally, I...
10 of the most unhinged comments about lawyers to ever grace the Mail Online
What with Robert Colover‘s labelling of a paedophile’s victim as “predatory”, the emergence of Barbara...
A brief history of online overshare disasters
A spate of recent inter-lawyer Twitter bust-ups (see here, here and here) reminds WaitroseLaw of...
The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too
As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified...
‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was for the firm’
In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, former Bond Pearce solicitor...
Tuckers senior partner says it’s ‘not my job 2 care about justice’ and that he couldn’t ‘give a flying f… about anybody else’
After David Dickinson look-a-like (and Tuckers Solicitors senior partner) Franklin Sinclair showed off his Jaguar...
How junior lawyers can survive a merger
In the wake of yesterday’s tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons —...
11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day
As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into...
Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge the unfair trial of Jesus Christ
A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to...