Tag: Students
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...
How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it
As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time...
When a covering letter crosses the line from charmingly quirky to wacky
In a tough graduate law job market, there’s an argument for injecting a little personality...
‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...
Westminster School auctions a mini-pupillage – current bid £750
Struggling to secure work experience in the ultra-competitive environment of the Bar? Well, thanks to...
Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom
A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...
Guildhall Chambers becomes latest set to stop offering criminal pupillages
Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers has followed London set Charter Chambers in withdrawing its criminal pupillage for...
‘You pay a price for putting your head above the parapet’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Pupillage application deadline extended (again) to Thursday 9 May
The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous...
Run Grayling Run
As a gesture of goodwill, we’ve included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London...
TV Edwards lets paralegals go weeks after shelling out for their police station accreditation training
Exclusive: In the latest sign of how hard law firms are being hit by government...
Newspapers’ categorisation of lawyers: a cut-out-and-keep guide
When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on...
Five terrible comedy law student videos
As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...
Pupillage application system fail – yet again
Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...
How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day
Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...
The College of Law has changed…
Some of the more disengaged College University of Law students may have found themselves rather...
‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...
After The BPTC Ethics Exam ‘Very Serious Issue’, Tumbleweed…
It has been a month since the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics exam,...