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Why there are literally no good reasons to become a ‘self-employed consultant...
Where do lawyers go when they lose their jobs? It's a question on the minds of the associates of DWF, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Trowers & Hamlins and Maclay Murray & Spens, which have all...
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9 reasons why Harry Mount’s hatchet job on the legal profession misses the mark
Today's piece by ex-pupil barrister Harry Mount arguing in favour of the government's legal aid proposals needs a rebuttal, although whether The Spectator will offer one is a different matter. Let me...
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The Freshfields trainee selling insider training contract interview tips for...
Exclusive: NailThatTrainingContract.co.uk appeared online a few days ago. It offers "inside tips from a current Magic Circle Trainee" taken from "real interviews and HR documents", alongside a...
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Potentially juicy magic circle constructive dismissal claim of the week
For those with an interest in the City branch of the legal profession, A Hussain v Linklaters – which begins this morning at the Central London Employment Tribunal – could be worth following....
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Freshfields: ‘no confidential material used’ by trainee who sold ‘inside...
Magic circle giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has concluded its investigation into the trainee behind controversial website NailThatTrainingContract.co.uk. Despite the trainee in question's boast...
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Exclusive footage of the legal aid solicitor who has quit law to become a busker
The news that a criminal defence solicitor had quit law to become a busker caused a storm on Twitter last week, with the Guardian's Comment is free account even tweeting a reaction to the story. This...
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The most mixed metaphor used to insult lawyers ever?
Last week's piece in the Daily Mail about the top earning legal aid lawyers – courtesy of a timely press release from the Ministry of Justice – elicited some crazed responses, including this gem of a...
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‘Don’t sweat the small stuff, do sweat the big stuff – and learn to tell the...
In the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series, Richard Kemp, founder of the tech and digital media law boutique Kemp Little, recalls what it was like to quit the safety of a big...
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The key points of the Legal Education and Training Review explained in 10 tweets
For those who don't fancy wading through the traditional legal press's long-winded deconstructions of the freshly-released Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) — or indeed reading the 335 page...
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You’re fired! Dynamo Legal founder crashes out of the Apprentice in storm of...
New legal franchise brand Dynamo Legal has missed out on a £250,000 investment after its founder, Alex Mills, crashed out of The Apprentice last night. The likeable Mills, 22, who won favour with...
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The spelling and grammar shame of Dynamo Legal: Part 2
Following his exit from The Apprentice on Wednesday evening, will Dynamo Legal founder Alex Mills be taking advantage of the "free consolation" being offered by his solicitors? Dynamo Legal's latest...
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Save UK Justice petition gets its 100,000th signature – pressure on...
A major House of Commons debate on the government's proposals to reform legal aid is now a virtual certainty after the Save UK Justice e-petition got its 100,000th signature. It will take place in...
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Lawyers who submitted responses to legal aid consultation receive email...
Ever since it was confirmed that the Ministry of Justice had had 13,000 responses to its 'Transforming Legal Aid' consultation, there has been puzzlement about how it would manage to read them all. But...
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Has Sainsbury’s launched a legal services arm?
'Sainsbury's Legal' doesn't, of course, exist (yet), which makes this bail condition — which appeared on a police charge sheet at Manchester Magistrates' Court this morning — rather puzzling... Bolton...
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The Guardian’s advice to this wannabe lawyer is really bad
The 'work' section of Saturday's The Guardian featured a plea for help from a wannabe lawyer who is looking to find a training contract or a paralegal position. Said hopeful, who has a 2:2, has been...
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Revealed: what ‘commercial awareness’ actually means
Despite the term's omnipresence in the world of legal graduate recruitment, few wannabe lawyers properly understand what is meant by "commercial awareness". Determined to get to the bottom of this...
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Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges...
For the first time since 2008 there will be no 'legal executive of the year' at the Law Society's annual awards. The axing of the category comes as the time it takes to qualify as a lawyer via the...
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Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?
Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that is free from working class names. "Well the lawyers I work with, I can’t think of a single Charmaine,...
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‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’
After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten years ago, Giles Peaker has just been made up to partner. In the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series,...
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Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown
On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession as an example of an area of life that is free from working class names. "Well the lawyers I work with, I can’t...
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