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The Secret Facebook Likes Of The Legal Profession
This month Facebook introduced its new 'Graph Search' tool, enabling users of the social network to mine it for information about other users. So we did a few lawyer-based searches of stuff you...
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The news that the latest three appointments to the Supreme Court are all men means Lady Hale remains the only woman member of the 12 strong bench. As grime collective Boy Better Know would doubtless...
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Is The Criminal Bar Finally Eating Itself?
Forget the rights and wrongs of the decision by two Tooks' barristers to start a company charging wannabes for pupillage application advice from their head of chambers, Michael Mansfield QC. And...
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‘In Those Days Getting A 2:2 Wasn’t A Great Concern’
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. I suppose I do...
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Tooksgate: Michael Mansfield Releases Statement Saying He ‘Would Not...
Michael Mansfield QC, the star speaker at the now notorious paid-for pupillage application advice event, has released a statement distancing himself from the organisers. Awkwardly, those organisers,...
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Lord Neuberger Is Trending! UK’s Top Judge Ousts Justin Bieber As Twitter’s...
It's not often that you get a member of the legal profession outperforming Justin Bieber on Twitter. But this morning UK Supreme Court chief Lord Neuberger achieved this impressive feat after his...
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New Statesman Readers Slam ‘Insolent Bloody Human Rights Lawyers’ Following...
Yes, that's New Statesman readers... 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner, who also edits the UK Human Rights Blog, has been savaged in the comments section of the New Statesman website for a...
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Why Charging Students For Pupillage Application Advice Is Both ‘Unedifying’...
I have been following the saga involving the Tooks Chambers barristers' pupillage advice event with great interest, writes OccupyTheInns. The comments from students who attended the event that have...
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Why Are Wannabe Barristers So Clueless About Criminal Bar’s Troubles?
Law students are often a little out of touch with reality. One day, when the author of the above tweet is processing cases for Eddie Stobart, he may find himself regretting his failure to keep up with...
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BPP Tells Students They Have Places On Its BPTC Before Offer Date In Second...
EXCLUSIVE: On Thursday 28 February, six days before Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) offers were due to be made, almost 150 wannabe barristers received an email from BPP informing them that they...
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Is This The Start Of The Criminal Barrister Spring?
It began with this blog post on Sunday by Fountain Court's Ian West, where he called on fellow barristers to refuse to sign up to the Quality Assurance Scheme For Advocates (QASA) – which many view as...
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There Has Always Been A Bar Aptitude Test – And Training To Be A Barrister Is...
Amid all the debate about rising Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) fees and the new pricier-than-expected Bar aptitude test, two obvious points keep being ignored. 1) There has always been a Bar...
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Do As I Say Not As I Do Advocacy Training: Starring Lord Sumption
Last month we analysed the "smug smile" and poor posture which blight Lord Neuberger's delivery of judgments. But the UK Supreme Court president is not the only senior judicial figure whose advocacy...
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Exclusive: Attorney General responds to Bar anger at his ‘foolish’ barristers...
Legal Cheek's Kevin Poulter has just asked Attorney General Dominic Grieve what he meant by his comment last night that criminal barristers "would be foolish to resist" the Quality Assurance Scheme for...
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Wanted: Someone for Baroness Hale ‘to talk about shopping with’
"Women shouldn’t be barristers," a young Brenda Hale was told when she was beginning her career. Speaking at an LSE discussion on Wednesday evening which I attended, Hale recalled being informed that...
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1KBW divorce barrister offers priest work experience
"I should very much like to be a barrister so I could say things like 'I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury' and wear a bow tie," tweeted celeb priest Richard Coles on Friday. To which he...
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The mismatch between Bar graduates and pupillages is about to get a whole lot...
One thing no one has mentioned in relation to the very serious travails of the criminal Bar is that 28.6% of all pupillages are in crime. That's by far the highest proportion of all practice areas –...
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Bar Student Outrage As Mock Paper Questions Feature In BPTC Ethics Exam
Exclusive: 24 hours after BPTC students completed Monday's centrally set ethics exam, a mock paper from 2011 was posted on Facebook containing several questions that featured in the assessment they had...
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Law Firm Life: The Truth In A Pie Chart
From Rob Pollak, the brilliant former Skadden associate behind 'Lawyers, can you go home?', comes another diagramatical gem. There's more from Rob at 'Rob Complains About Things'.
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Video: Lindsay Lohan Isn’t Very Nice To Her Lawyer At All
"Why did you even say that?" whispers troubled star Lindsay Lohan accusingly to her lawyer, Mark Heller, in her latest court appearance on Monday. "Don't say anything else," she continues, in the style...
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