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A brief history of online overshare disasters
A spate of recent inter-lawyer Twitter bust-ups (see here, here and here) reminds WaitroseLaw of some classic online overshare moments. She reflects on what up-and-coming members of the legal...
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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 Hewson as a contrarian media star and the small matter of the legal aid and civil justice...
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The male barrister hottie list ‘subverted expectations’— the female one...
YourBarristerBoyfriend's original list is well-written, hilarious and has pictures of good-looking shirtless barristers. Naturally, I blew my monthly broadband limit on it immediately and have been...
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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 Poulter) caused a storm in June after his blog post about his law exam alerted the national press to...
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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 Bar. Connelly, who is an editorial assistant at Legal Cheek, has gone furthest towards...
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UK legal education system given unlikely boost by Obama
The messy postgraduate route to qualifying as a lawyer in England and Wales comes in for plenty of flack — with the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) widely seen as hurried, the Legal Practice Course...
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Law firm pens are officially everywhere
Having spread from the corporate to the publicly-funded branch of the profession, now even the Notting Hill Carnival isn't free of law firm pens... "There was a lass in a tutu handing them out to...
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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 to Instagram and Twitter to trawl for selfies taken by wannabe solicitors as they go about their vac...
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On the menu: lawyers
Yesterday food blog Accidental Flatlander posted a photo that will chill the blood of solicitors and barristers everywhere... But fear not, members of the legal profession. As seafood lovers will of...
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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 Dalston, he would arrive at local law firm Supreme Solicitors. As you can see below, Supreme Solicitors, like the man,...
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‘Many, particularly in their early careers, seek to disguise themselves as...
In the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series, a senior partner at one of London's most well-known law firms shares his wisdom — anonymously — with the next generation of...
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Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit...
A Crown Court judge sent a criminal to the cells for nearly three hours because the fleece and tracksuit bottoms combo he was wearing made him look "slovenly". Sitting at Hull Crown Court last week,...
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‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes...
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a "ham-fisted" cease and desist letter, US lawyer Andrew Delaney has penned what tech bloggers are dubbing the "best response to a copyright...
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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 expensively-acquired expertise suddenly deserts you in the face of baffling, impatient demands. Yes,...
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The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new...
A mobile courtroom in a bus (pictured below) has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to help clear the country's huge backlog of cases. Legal system reformers such as our justice secretary Chris...
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‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’
Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of being a partner at a City law firm wasn't for him — and wishes he had moved in-house earlier... I joined the...
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Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts
Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about their training contracts. Some of the posts warm the heart, others not so much. Here is a selection of the...
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Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City...
Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner. Indeed, in these difficult economic times, many wait even longer. But one 27-year old bucked this trend last week to make...
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Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday's The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless — with school and university nothing more than glorified forms of child-minding that are encouraged by the...
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Incorrect tweet forces BPP to reveal how many of its grads bagged training...
Lawyer2B has a piece today detailing the employment rates of the biggest Legal Practice Course (LPC) providers. For some reason, BPP Law School, the University of Law and City Law School have provided...
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