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Junior solicitor releases rap album about how much he hated his training contract at top City firm

'Square Meal, Square Mile' details solicitor's unhappiness during TC at top 10 City outfit.

8 May 2014 09:06

Why lawyers need to shower more

Survey of City solicitors finds that they are at their most creative while showering.

7 May 2014 15:07

An anatomy of Kaplan’s doomed BPTC

Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.

7 May 2014 09:08

Kaplan Law School to quit pricey Thames-side campus

Move away from South Bank premises follows ditching of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), as Kaplan re-focuses on Legal Practice Course (LPC) which is to be extended to include a free LLM qualification.

6 May 2014 15:22

Suspended lawyer’s bid to marry his porn-filled laptop is dismissed by judge

Lawyer claims he "fell in love" with computer and "preferred having sex with it over all other persons or things".

6 May 2014 12:32

Kaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course

Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.

2 May 2014 10:32

Riverview Law to offer 10 training contracts and 10 apprenticeships this year

Exclusive: New legal market entrant to take on first ever trainees after being granted Alternative Business Structure (ABS) license.

2 May 2014 09:03

‘We are not doing a Tooks’ says Argent as it prepares to ‘merge’ with Goldsmith Chambers

Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts.

1 May 2014 12:35

Top QC offers George Clooney 14 tips on being married to a barrister

The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin.

29 April 2014 08:40

Barrister to stand trial accused of falsely notifying British government of Olympics nuclear attack

Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning.

28 April 2014 12:24