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Christmas carol gets the lawyer treatment — and it’s soul-destroying
If the Grinch got hold of a hymn, this is what it would look like It seems that even in the festive season, lawyers can’t shake their fun-sucking stereotype, as a picture of a poor, lawyerfied...
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Amalarella: A legal profession Christmas pantomime
Amal Clooney joins Lady Hale, Charlotte Proudman, Lord Harley, Ayesha Vardag, Judge Rinder and other top lawyers in Katie King’s festive marvel In a kingdom far, far away, overlooking the City, an...
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How law students can survive Christmas
Advice from someone who made it to the other side Darpit Mehta, a first seat trainee solicitor at Norton Rose Fulbright, emerged from the all important second year of his law degree at Warwick with a...
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Solicitor-advocate uses client’s Christmas jumper as advocacy tactic
“You can’t send anyone to prison wearing that” A wily solicitor-advocate has used his client’s appalling Christmas jumper to help save him from a festive period behind bars. Things weren’t looking...
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Legal Cheek’s Leading Top Quiz of the Year
It has been one hell of a year, but how much of it do you remember? January A Clifford Chance trainee hit headlines at the start of 2015. But was it for…? a) Refusing to work beyond 5pm. b) Defecating...
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A lesson in commercial awareness from someone who never used to understand it
It’s not as hard as you think What is commercial awareness? This question strikes fear into the heart of all law students — it certainly did mine. As someone with no ‘big City dreams’, at university I...
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The 15 most popular Legal Cheek stories of 2015
A look back on the posts that hauled in the most hits In reverse order, we count down the 15 most popular Legal Cheek stories of the year… 15. Boss of top legal aid firm vows to never instruct LinkedIn...
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BPP GDL student to appear in court charged with murder
Carl Langdell, who launched his own law firm in August, suspected of killing teacher Katie Locke A Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) student at BPP University Law School has been charged with murder over...
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This is what you do on a London vacation scheme at a US-based international firm
It’s more hands-on than the magic circle Ahead of Shearman & Sterling’s spring and summer vacation scheme application deadline on 15 January, Legal Cheek Careers headed down to the London office of...
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Hogan Lovells promotes three former trainees to its five new London partner...
There is hope for millennial lawyers yet The London office of a global megafirm has made up three former trainees to its partnership — providing a ray of hope to the nation’s young corporate lawyers as...
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Floods force closure of three Magistrates Courts
Nature disrupts justice The court system has felt the wrath of heavy flooding over the festive period, forcing three criminal courts to close. The Ministry of Justice confirmed on its website that...
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Slaughter and May keeps 38 out of 40 qualifying trainees in first retention...
Magic circler hangs on to 95% of its rookies Slaughter and May has shrugged off two rounds of sub-90% trainee retention to record its highest rate since 2014. 38 out of 40 of the magic circle firm’s...
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Law student launches his own ‘law practice’— and charges himself out at £25...
Entrepreneurial rookie bids to fill legal aid gap and earn cash A ballsy law student has set up his own pseudo-law firm offering legal help and assistance to paying clients. Lincolnshire-based David...
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Top human rights firm comes out swinging against Solicitors Disciplinary...
Leigh Day says challenges against MoD are an important check and balance The accusations mounted against top human rights firm Leigh Day have intensified following a referral to the Solicitors...
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Beyond the brochure: Five things you learn at a law firm open day
Nothing beats going somewhere in person Ahead of Burges Salmon‘s vacation scheme application deadline on 14 January, Legal Cheek Careers popped along to its recent London presentation evening to take...
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Legal aid is a ‘basic human right’ not an ‘economic benefit’, says Jeremy Corbyn
Lawyers lap up Jezza Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reaffirmed his opposition to Tory cuts to justice system funding by describing legal aid work as a “basic human right”. Speaking last night at the...
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Freshfields graduate recruitment website goes offline for ‘scheduled...
Magic circle firm extends yesterday’s deadline to 3pm today Students are fuming after the graduate recruitment website of magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer went offline for “scheduled...
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Robots aren’t such a big threat to lawyers, say top academics
Predictions of solicitors and barristers’ imminent demise are premature Fears that lawyers could be replaced by robots and other artificial intelligence technologies are being overplayed, a pair of...
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Birkbeck law grad crowdfunds nearly £3k in a fortnight towards LPC fees
An increasingly viable way of covering the cost of law school A mature Birkbeck College law graduate has managed to haul in nearly £3,000 in online donations towards her Legal Practice Course (LPC)...
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Social mobility charity’s ‘Model Law Commission’ gets students thinking about...
Big Voice London aims to bring people who see the world differently into the profession A London-based youth organisation is helping state school kids forge a career in a profession dominated by the...
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