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Legal job website of the week
"We don't list law jobs everyone wants," reads the mission statement of US legal job website Shit Law Jobs. "Instead, we list jobs most lawyers likely wouldn't want. Hey, beats being unemployed." How...
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What’s going on at Tooks Chambers?
Rumours are raging about the future of Tooks Chambers. Yesterday Respect Party politician Lee Jasper went public with this claim: Just heard Tooks Court famous UK human rights legal chambers set to go...
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‘You need an offer…but you only need one’
It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and a longer interlude as a government lawyer before top law blogger Carl Gardner discovered what he really wanted to do......
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How anonymous social media sensations can avoid getting sued
Amid the thrills of YourBarristerBoyfriend's sensational arrival on the scene last week, there were — this being a Tumblr about the law — some anxious murmurings about the legality of ranking...
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The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?
Someone at "The Tomes" seems to have been in a little bit too much of a hurry to reveal that CPS chief crown prosecutor for London "Ailson" Saunders is to succeed Keir Starmer as Director of Public...
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‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ reveals 5 more ‘barrister hotties (or notties?)’...
The authors of the seminal '21 hottest barristers in London' — hosted on the YourBarristerBoyfriend Tumblr — have returned with a list of a further five hot (or not) barristers based on racy photos...
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How should chambers and law firms reject applicants?
Recently we received this email from a disgruntled pupillage-seeker... How did the pupillage-seeker know they had been rejected first thing in the morning if it was done "by silence", you may be...
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Hotties of the week: ‘Melting barrister’s clerk’ slams ‘boiling barrister’
This week has seen not only the return of the "Barrister Hottie Experts", but a separate battle between two members of the legal profession to outdo each other in the hotness stakes. The conflict took...
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‘Why, oh why, am I a barrister?’
In this week's 'If I knew then what I know now', human rights barrister Barbara Hewson — who earlier this year caused uproar with a highly controversial piece on Operation Yewtree for Spiked Magazine...
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Barrister puts wig and gown on eBay and issues dramatic warning to Bar wannabes
A junior barrister has ended her career in dramatic style by placing her "Ede and Ripoff" wig and gown for sale on eBay — accompanying the ad with a wide-ranging attack on the reality of life at the...
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Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to...
A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to declare that the trial of Jesus and his subsequent crucifixion went against the principles of a fair trial. As...
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18 year-old becomes youngest ever barrister after passing BPTC
Gabrielle Turnquest, 18, will become the youngest person in the history of the English and Welsh legal system to become a barrister — in name at least — when she is called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn...
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The legal aid rally at the Old Bailey: As it happened on social meeja
As a mob of lawyers descended upon the Old Bailey yesterday afternoon, recalling the days of public hangings outside the court, justice secretary Chris Grayling may have breathed a sigh of relief at...
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‘We would be foolish indeed to sneer at the principle of the barrister hottie’
After overcoming his initial scepticism, OccupyTheInns — who will shortly be commencing pupillage — is keen to see the ranking of attractive lawyers extended to pupil barristers. Being in Australia in...
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Angel Chambers family law barrister in top bodybuilding competition win
Christina Chinnock (pictured above) of Angel Chambers in Swansea has scooped one of the top prizes at the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation Welsh Championships. The Swansea-based family law...
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Tooks withdraws mini-pupillage due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’— and rules...
In the latest sign that all is not well at Tooks Chambers, Michael Mansfield QC's set has withdrawn at least one mini-pupillage scheduled for October. In an email sent to a student due to commence work...
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5 ways to announce to the world that you’ve bagged a pupillage
Friday was, of course, pupillage offer day. For the lucky ones, there was delight, followed by the tricky business of getting the tone right in sharing their wonderful news with the world. We consider...
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Barrister creates two YouTube homages to himself: which one do you prefer?
YouTube is a tricky medium to get right. Still, full marks to 33 Bedford Row's Lawrence Jones for effort... Here is a recently-uploaded video of the commercial law barrister set to a poignant piano...
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Could the legal aid reforms improve life for baby barristers?
It's a confusing time for future legal aid barristers. On Friday a lucky few obtained pupillage, as existing members of the Bar roared encouragement to the not-so-lucky ones... Very best of luck to all...
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The legal profession has a problem with fake Twitter followers too
As regular Legal Cheek readers will know, the problem of fake Twitter followers — identified in Monday's Dispatches documentary on the manipulation of social media — extends to the legal profession....
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