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Research: Two thirds of lawyers say the job has failed to live up to...
After the battle to secure training contracts and pupillages, anti-climax often awaits The reality of being a solicitor or barrister isn’t as great as many students believe, according to new research....
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Leveson’s advice to wannabe advocates: stop bleating on about the blindingly...
On the eve of judging the Bar’s annual mock trial competition the President of the Queen’s Bench Division — and scourge of the tabloid press — speaks exclusively to Legal Cheek Not many judges achieve...
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Wig for sale on the cheap: one witchdoctor former owner
Freshly-called lawyers could save a few quid by picking up second hand horsehair that a bogus witchdoctor is flogging after £1 million swindling spree A Crown Court judge has forced a purported...
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Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back...
Judges back government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime … will have to rob banks The prospect looms again of...
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Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium
Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web — law school edition Cambridge — 1997 So bad it’s good BPP — 2000 Stock image heaven Nottingham — 1999 Bleak Queen Mary — 1998...
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Twitterati goes wild after Lord Wilson uses exclamation mark in Supreme Court...
Even Lord Denning didn’t go this far The Twittersphere is awash with outrage this afternoon after Supreme Court judge Lord Wilson used an exclamation mark in a judgment. Jon Baines, the chairman of the...
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Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the...
Debt-burdened wannabe litigators could yet exert influence on direction of grades-obsessed profession through new routes like the paralegal shortcut Up until the financial crisis some students with...
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The Judge rules: This is the end … for the criminal bar
Wannabe criminal barristers should “celebrate” this week’s Court of Appeal ruling by spinning the classic Doors song and getting pissed to Jim Morrison’s prophetic lyrics As defining moments go, the...
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Is this the youngest chambers pupil ever?
1KBW silk plonks the old horsehair on baby’s head in craven bid to win cute points from Twitterati Aren’t baby pics meant to be restricted to that social media platform renowned as the depository of...
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Wirral Grammar School for Girls wins Bar National Mock Trial Final
Liverpool sixth formers emerge victorious from field of 2,000 students in final presided over by Sir Brian Leveson This year’s Bar National Mock Trial Competition has been won by Wirral Grammar School...
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Former One Direction star Zayn Malik to be fast-tracked to bar pupillage...
Just days after jacking in boy band — and with no traditional qualifications — Zayn Malik has bagged a place at a magic circle chambers Pop sensation Zayn Malik is to be fast-tracked to a top-flight...
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Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo
Today’s *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland — but, hands up, it could happen to any of us … US criminal defence lawyer John Turnbull III’s venture into Facebook advertising hasn’t gone...
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Judges give Grayling a special birthday present — another High Court defeat
Justice Secretary gets slapped down again, this time over prisoner transfer reforms – but happy b-day, nonetheless, Chris This is not an April Fools’ parody — although it might feel like a cruel joke...
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The lamps went out all over legal London today
Power cut brings chaos to lawyer-land, but several brave souls manage to get down the pub Lawyer implacability was superbly highlighted on Twitter this afternoon, as an electrical fire in London’s...
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Call for QC rank to be widened to all lawyers, not just advocates
Restricting the gong is unfair and a block to diversity in the modern profession, says legal executives group Queen’s Counsel — the highest rank for advocates in the UK — should be more widely...
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Yet another BPTC is being launched — despite chronic shortage of pupillages
BPP is controversially to bring its BPTC to Brum, despite only nine pupillage places available in all the West Midlands as of yesterday This is just what hard-pressed pupillage-hunting barristers need...
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8 top English uni law faculties dropped from Singapore bar approved...
Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed Eight leading English university law faculties are up in arms after they were removed from the Singapore bar’s list of approved...
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Research shows in-house lawyers pushed to the brink of illegality
Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits Corporate in-house legal departments have become increasingly attractive to younger...
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Exclusive: There really is a barrister called Zane Malik
One Direction April Fools’ joke comes true (sort of) as Legal Cheek unearths a young barrister in Lincoln’s Inn who could be the boy-bander of the law There really is a barrister called Zane Malik, as...
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Could festival toilets law be the hot new practice area of 2015?
From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist Music festival hazards usually...
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