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...

Sep 5 2013 2:04pm

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...

Sep 5 2013 9:47am

‘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...

Sep 4 2013 1:23pm

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...

Sep 2 2013 10:40am

‘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,...

Aug 30 2013 12:16pm

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...

Aug 29 2013 12:33pm

On the menu: lawyers

Yesterday food blog Accidental Flatlander posted a photo that will chill the blood of solicitors...

Aug 29 2013 8:56am

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...

Aug 28 2013 9:29am

Law firm pens are officially everywhere

Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the...

Aug 27 2013 1:20pm

UK legal education system given unlikely boost by Obama

The messy postgraduate route to qualifying as a lawyer in England and Wales comes in...

Aug 27 2013 8:55am

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...

Aug 23 2013 9:06am

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...

Aug 16 2013 9:04am

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...

Aug 15 2013 9:05am

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...

Aug 14 2013 9:53am

A brief history of online overshare disasters

A spate of recent inter-lawyer Twitter bust-ups (see here, here and here) reminds WaitroseLaw of...

Aug 13 2013 9:22am

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...

Aug 7 2013 9:26am

‘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...

Aug 2 2013 1:11pm

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...

Aug 2 2013 9:20am

How junior lawyers can survive a merger

In the wake of yesterday’s tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons —...

Aug 1 2013 12:38pm

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...

Aug 1 2013 9:23am

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...

Jul 30 2013 8:59am