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PODCAST: How To Schmooze Your Way To Partnership Riches
When pushed to get out and flaunt their wares, many lawyers tend to think (but rarely say) stuff like: "I did not go into law to become a salesperson." These snobs are doomed for the scrapheap,...
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Why Good Barristers Don’t Waste Their Time Googling Jurors
The news that criminal barristers are googling jurors – and then tailoring their speeches to appeal to their professional backgrounds and interests – doesn't reflect well on the Bar. Not just because...
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Leaked Letter: CPS Compels Barristers To Attend Day-Long Workshops –...
Oh, the glamour of the criminal Bar... The East Midlands branch of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is demanding that those who work for it as agents in the Magistrates' Court attend a day-long...
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Court Of Appeal Dismisses Latest Case Of Litigant-In-Person Bar Graduate
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a libel case brought by a pupillage-less Bar graduate against his old university. Representing himself, Keith Crossland had sued Glamorgan University for comments its...
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Yes, It’s Too Late To Retrain As A Barrister At 40
Over the weekend, The Times published a classic 'Is it too late for me to retrain as a barrister?' letter. Agony aunt Marie O'Riordan reeled off the standard encouraging response, telling the letter's...
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‘I Had No Idea How Important And Interesting Law Is While I Was Studying It...
Ed note: This is the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series, where leading members of the legal profession share their wisdom with the next generation of wannabes. If I knew then...
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Julian Assange’s Mum Labels David Allen Green A ‘Troll’– Borat-Themed Bust-Up...
Solicitor and New Statesman legal correspondent David Allen Green suffered a bruising weekend on Twitter after Assange supporters took umbrage at his views on the high profile extradition case. The...
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Sumption To Give Lecture At £18K-A-Year Oxbridge Reject Uni
Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption will address students this evening at AC Grayling's £18,000-a-year New College of the Humanities (NCH) in a "colloquium" on philosophy and law... Eton-educated...
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The Lawyer ‘Hot 100′ Pics Meet With Lukewarm Reception
Every year The Lawyer magazine butters up a bunch of upwardly mobile solicitors and barristers by including them in its 'Hot 100'. As part of the fun, the chosen few get to enjoy a celeb-style...
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What Supreme Court Justices Read In Their Spare Time…
Encouraging to see Private Eye making an appearance in the UK Supreme Court Justices' library. Disappointingly, though, Heat was nowhere to be seen. There's more on the Supreme Court this afternoon...
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Lord Neuberger’s Judicial Assistant Lifts The Lid On Supreme Court Life
Amid the glow of the UK Supreme Court's psychedelic carpets (the work of Sgt Pepper's album cover designer Peter Blake), former Linklaters trainee Cameron Sim tells me what it has been like to spend...
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‘You Wouldn’t Behave Like That In Court’: Barrister MP Told Off For Heckling...
At yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions, criminal barrister-turned-MP Michael Ellis (pictured left) heckled Ed Miliband so loudly that he got told off by the Speaker. Ellis, who is listed as...
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George Carman QC’s Grandson: ‘I’m Struggling To Choose Between UCL And Durham...
This week we received a cry for help from the wannabe lawyer grandson of the late, great "gorgeous" George Carman QC. Charlie Carman's email is below, followed by advice from Legal Cheek's world-weary...
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Toupée-Wearing QC Sues Solicitor Who Allegedly Made Remark About His...
9-12 Bell Yard silk Herbert Kerrigan QC is taking legal action against a solicitor for comments made about him during a guest lecture at Edinburgh University. Robin Davidson, who works for the...
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Ecstasy And Cocaine Possession Pupil Barrister Henry Mostyn Joins Cleary...
In July we revealed that 4 New Square had rejected Henry Mostyn for tenancy following his arrest with cocaine and ecstasy while queuing outside a Shoreditch nightclub. What was next for the Eton and...
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Is Legal Consultant-Speak Eating Itself?
"No-sourcing", explains legal futurologist Professor Richard Susskind in his new book Tomorrow's Lawyers, is "the option of choosing not to undertake a legal task at all". Hmmm... Worryingly for the...
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The Strange Story Of The ‘Lawyer By Day, Pop Singer By Night’ Who Refuses To...
Meet Bowie Jane, an Australian "lawyer by day, pop singer by night" with a host of BBC radio gigs booked in the UK this year. Jane (pictured below) says she practises criminal law, but refuses to...
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Blogosphere Bust-Up: Author Of Anti-Cab Rank Rule Report Hits Back After Bar...
Bar Council chair Maura McGowan QC doesn't think much of the recent Legal Services Board (LSB) report on the Bar's cab rank rule (which basically suggests that the rule which many barristers hold dear...
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EVENT: Valentine’s Day Lawyer Speed Dating
Single? Enjoy law so much that you'd prefer your next partner to be a lawyer like you? In which case why not pop along to our Valentine's Day speed dating night for lawyers... Hosted by Legal Cheek...
View ArticleLearning The Law Through The Medium Of Doctored Clips Of Hitler Film ‘Downfall’
One area of study that the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) is not believed to have considered is the learning of law through doctored clips of the 2004 film Downfall. A host of new legal...
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