Tag: Students
‘Train To Be a Lawyer In Just One Year’: Too Good To Be True?
In February, I mentioned an advert for the London College of Law (not to be...
Law Grad Who Attempted To Pass Himself Off As a Barrister From His Pop Up Office In a Pub Is Jailed
Earlier this month, Legal Cheek brought you news of the strange case of Marious Pimm,...
Going, Gone: Bemusement As Law School’s Facebook LPC Place ‘Reverse Auction’ Is Over In Seconds
Earlier this month, the National College of Legal Training (NCLT) announced, to much fanfare, that...
NAMED: The Law Firm Requiring Grads To Self-Fund a £9.5K Paralegal Training Course Before They’re Considered For a TC
EXCLUSIVE: In March, Legal Cheek published a story about a firm that was asking law...
Jaguar Shoes v Jaguar Cars: Blame It On The Lawyers!
Just down the road from my crumbling flat in Hackney Legal Cheek’s Dalston studios is...
Why Snarky Blogs Should Stop Taking The Piss Out Of The London Legal Walk
It’s not all that often that I think Alex misses the point, but in his...
Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas
Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something...
Greedy Associates: Freshfields Temp Scheme Could Freeze Junior Lawyer Pay For a Generation
There’s a growing consensus that junior corporate lawyers are overpaid, with a recent (paywalled) survey...
Is The London Legal Walk The Shortest, Least Taxing Sponsored Walk In The History Of Sponsored Walks?
I know it’s great to raise money for worthy causes – and I’m personally very...
World’s Most Famous Legal Executive Starts Law School
The self taught Chinese ‘barefoot lawyer’ Chen Guangcheng may not have followed the Chartered Institute...
PODCAST: Becoming a Lawyer In The Eddie Stobart Chambers Era (And How Graduates Can Woo Law Firms With Their Social Media Prowess)
Following Thursday’s news that Eddie Stobart lorries is launching a barristers’ arm, law graduates Cathryn...
Can You Get Into a City Law Firm From An Ex-Poly?
Can you get into a City law firm from an ex-poly? And how much will...
Amid “Heartache, Depression and Personal Bankruptcy”, Are We Finally Seeing The End Of The Criminal Bar?
Last night at the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) dinner at Middle Temple Hall, CBA chair...
Four Reasons Why The Trainee Minimum Wage Had To Go
You heard it here first, a full hour before any other publication, and it’s now...
BREAKING: Trainee Solicitor Minimum Wage Looks Like It’s About To Be Scrapped
15.20: I’ve just ducked out of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) meeting where a final...
‘Inaccuracies About the Legal Profession Make Me Cross’: BBC Drama Silk Returns To Torment Lawyers
Silk returned for its second series last night, enraging the country’s more pedantic legal professionals...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Legal Profession’s Transformation Could Be ‘King’s Cross-Like’
Within walking distance of central London, and just two hours from Paris by Eurostar, King’s...
‘Rushing More Ethnic Minority Students Into Pupillage Could Cause Culture Clash’
OccupyTheInns cautions against a “knee-jerk” reaction to a study that found ethnic minority students are...
GDL HELL: ‘With The Job Market The Way It Is, Passing Is Simply Not Good Enough’
The pressure is on as GDL exams near, but the more David Woodall reads, the...
Lawyers’ Pinterest Boards: Top Five
Since I discovered the new social networking site Pinterest – which is best described as...
You’ve Either Got It Or You Haven’t: The ‘Personality X Factor’ That’s Needed To Land a Pupillage
Orwell prize short-listed blogger Amanda Bancroft, a former barrister, on what differentiates the wannabes from...