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Just who is Jeremy Wright? Lawyers have never heard of new attorney general
Dominic Grieve QC replaced by a non-silk who promotes his ability to video-conference with the best of them Jeremy Wright was met with a resounding cry of “Who he?” this morning as he slipped into the...
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Research: lawyers face more pressure than any other British worker
Legal profession workers are massively more stressed out and pissed off than the average worker, a leading solicitors’ firm discovers after sending in the survey boffins Slater & Gordon — the...
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14 insightful interactions from our Twitter discussion about bagging a...
The best bits from yesterday’s #TCapps Q&A, featuring Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors, Kaplan Law School and David Allen Green — amongst a host of other experts and wannabe...
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Law firm seeks to glam-up paralegal vacancy by pretending it’s a job in ‘The...
“Fancy joining the Paras?” asks a Quality Solicitor franchise firm in Dudley, applying gloss to some fairly mundane social welfare and family law tasks. What youngster hasn’t fantasised about joining...
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A reading from the Book of Mitchell
Wigapedia draws upon biblical inspiration to follow the twists and turns of the Jackson reforms And in the eve of the year, towards the month that is known as December and the Feast of Ipad, it came to...
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Punters ignore Law Society cheap lager deals — so it boosts prices
Photographic evidence proves that not even cut price booze can convince legal London to fall in love with the solicitors’ trade union Bar wars in Chancery Lane have taken another exciting twist — cheap...
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Law firm rues its creation of fictional ‘Mr Thikas Toosh Ortplanks’ character
Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Mickey out of miners A union is reported to have sacked personal injury specialist law firm Raleys for creating a...
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There is a real billboard advertising the services of Saul Goodman’s junior...
Seemingly innocuous lawyer advert is in fact a clever publicity stunt for Breaking Bad spin-off Fans of Breaking Bad have spotted a roadside billboard in Albuquerque advertising the services of a...
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The 8 most delightful vac scheme jollies of the summer
The City of London’s top law firms have, once again, been treating their vac schemers to some wonderful perks that may or may not prove to be a regular feature of their future lawyer lives Taking a...
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Mayer Brown confirms drop in training contract numbers from 20 to 15 since 2012
Reduction in trainee numbers has taken place over two years as part of a bid to boost firm’s retention rate The London office of international law firm Mayer Brown has confirmed that it has reduced its...
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This sign for the toilets in the Royal Courts of Justice goes beyond everyday...
Female advocates, male non-advocates and wheelchair users are all flummoxed by this sign for the toilets at the Royal Courts of Justice The Royal Courts of Justice contains what may be the least...
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The spiritual home of Wednesbury Unreasonableness is for sale
West Midlands cinema at heart of Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp goes on the market Rare is the law graduate who is unable to vaguely recall the 1947 case of Provincial Picture Houses...
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Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
Life as a solicitor or barrister isn’t always what it seems Law school — the fantasy: The glossy brochures depict bright-eyed, keen, intelligent and beautiful young people, hanging on the every word of...
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Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm
The craze of getting the general public to finance a business — and run the risk of failure — has taken a giant leap in the legal profession Fancy a slice of a law firm? Now your dream can come true...
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Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become...
Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement’s foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues Soon it won’t matter that the legal aid budget has...
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Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost...
A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying — but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper The solicitors’ profession regulator has effectively consigned...
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Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf...
Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor This post appeared on the Facebook page of satirical comic Viz a few days ago. For “Chris Europe”, it was a welcome...
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The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
How has it come to this? 1. You know that you shouldn’t have left it until the last minute but somehow it just happened 2. So off to work you go 3. Amid rising panic, you begin to fantasise about how...
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Exclusive photo: ex-magic circle senior partner ‘blacked-up’ as a Zulu Warrior
A Slaughter and May 1979 comedy skit amazingly featured a blacked-up lawyer playing a character applying for a training contract — he later became the firm’s senior partner, stepping down in 2008 That...
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Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did...
First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially Clyde & Co is increasing the number...
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