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Criminal lawyers slam Grayling in court bid to save legal aid rates
Specialist solicitors attack Justice Secretary for bullying their own professional body over a deal they say will ruin 65-year-old system that was once the envy of civilised world Junior criminal law...
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Exclusive research: Scottish trainees and newly-qualified solicitors in...
Scotland may be on the brink of independence, but regardless of the referendum result, English law firms are likely to carry on doling out inferior pay to their trainees and newly-qualified lawyers...
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Female former London law student thrown in Iranian jail for trying to watch...
Facebook protest campaign takes off in bid to free SOAS law graduate, who has already spent weeks in solitary confinement for breaching draconian interpretation of Islamic law A law graduate from...
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Judge sacked after he orders defendant to be electrocuted
US judge removed from the bench after he instructs police to zap accused with a 50,000 volt electric shock Judges must get slightly pissed off with the odd recalcitrant defendant — so it is...
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In defence of ‘avizandum’: the most magical sounding legal phrase of them all
Solicitors hit back after Scots law phrase is branded “Harry Potter” language Is the use of Latin legal terminology so obscure that it sounds like a magic spell to be discouraged? Moray Council thinks...
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Could ‘divorce hotel’ idea take off in UK? —‘Er, no,’ says family law solicitor
Leading English divorce specialist slams mini-break mediation venture, describing it as unworkable and potentially dangerous A US hotel has launched the novel combination of a luxury weekend getaway...
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Solicitor watchdog deals with 9,000 ethics calls annually – but doesn’t take...
Recent case of struck-off junior lawyer highlights inner workings of Solicitors Regulation Authority helpline that purports to keep lawyers on the straight and narrow The unfortunate case of a rookie...
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Lawyers can’t be stressed – they don’t drink coffee
Research reveals legal profession to be out of the top-10 groups addicted to the caffeine rush, suggesting all this talk of hard work is exaggerated Despite the image of highly-stressed law firm...
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Legal Twittersphere mocks Law Society claims to be at the heart of Whitehall
Chancery Lane marketing campaign trumpeting lobbying efforts elicits jibes over failure to halt legal aid cuts With Yorkshire bruiser and former Law Society chief executive Des Hudson off the premises...
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Lawyer advice to students pondering career in publicly-funded legal sector:...
Law Society-arranged Twitter hashtag conversation spawns depressing assessment of the future of legal aid and public law work As social media campaigns go, the Law Society’s recently launched...
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5 reasons why today’s vote won’t matter to the legal profession because...
There’s going to be some sort of democratic bonanza in a place made famous by an American-Australian actor in a Hollywood epic — but as far as the Scottish legal profession is concerned, it’s already...
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Court slaps lawyer for pretending to be chummy with the stars
A Hollywood litigator is in hot water with local bar authorities and a California court after claiming that she’s just a little bit too Hollywood In a tale reminiscent of Woody Allen’s 1983 film Zelig,...
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The Ministry of Justice has done one of the worst tweets ever seen on Twitter
“This might be funny if these were not the people running our justice system,” says Dinah Rose QC, as fellow top lawyers round on MoJ in Twitter storm Since the advent of Twitter in 2006, there have...
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6 LinkedIn Pippa Tips for junior lawyers
Now for some glaringly obvious advice Lord Harley of Counsel aside, I’m unaware of any member of the legal profession who has been able to harness the power of LinkedIn to alter the course of their...
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Learn Welsh — regulator demands of newly-qualified solicitors
Don’t panic England — the latest suggested edict from the Solicitors Regulation Authority will apply only to those poor buggers actually practising in the Principality Young solicitors are soon to be...
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An LPC graduate was hustling for work this morning in Chancery Lane Tube station
Initiative or desperation? An unidentified law graduate has been spotted this morning handing out copies of his CV to lawyers getting on the escalator at Chancery Lane Tube station in central London....
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Former wannabe barrister and bliss guru smashes into paralegal market
The man who made a mint from ghost-writing student essays and then provided good vibration lifestyle services is now knocking out cut-price legal advice The last time Legal Cheek checked in with...
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Should the legal apprenticeship age limit be scrapped?
Current rules discriminate against legal profession vocational course graduates; while the prospect of the non-university, loafing-on-sofa route to qualification looms Uncertainty hangs over the shape,...
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‘Why I’m handing out CVs underground': jobless law grad who’s targeting...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: UWE law graduate Bilal Rauf tells Legal Cheek about his maverick strategy to land a training contract Minutes after we posted our story about a law graduate hustling solicitors for...
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Return of the Loadsamoney lawyers as magic circle partners splurge on...
Break out the red braces, start waving fistfuls of fifty pound notes and bray like something normally housed in a stables — according to Freshfields, the good times are back This picture, tweeted from...
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