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Doughty Street barrister who topped ‘Bar hottie’ list gets engaged to George Clooney

Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together?

28 April 2014 08:22

How far would you go for silence in the library?

Court hears how law student lay in street with a noose around his neck in protest at noise in library, having also threatened hunger strike and suicide.

25 April 2014 10:42

The emerging etiquette of the training contract video interview

How best to present yourself to potential employers through a laptop camera.

25 April 2014 09:06

‘I worry I’m wasting my hero’s heart at law school’

Heroic law student reveals inner struggle to PostSecret.

24 April 2014 11:47

Fancy a chat with Robbie Savage?

Leeds law firm Blacks hires Match of the Day pundit Robbie Savage and publishes "direct line" to ex-Premiership star on its website.

23 April 2014 11:41

DWF launches video interview — doubling number of wannabe trainees it considers

Exclusive: DWF becomes the first big UK law firm to incorporate video into its training contract interview process.

23 April 2014 09:38

The 8 best law firm names in England

Amazingly, these law firms are all real.

22 April 2014 13:20

‘They call me Gerrie Nel and I am mad as hell’: Now Pistorius prosecutor gets his own rap

Following the hip hop creations spawned in tribute to Oscar Pistorius' defence lawyer, Barry Roux, a track has been recorded in honour of tough-talking Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor in the case.

17 April 2014 11:08

Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage

EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.

16 April 2014 09:10

We’re selling a limited number of ‘Eat Sleep Law Repeat’ T-shirts

Poor wannabe lawyers have it so much worse than other students, as Legal Cheek duo Thomas Connelly and Lucy Pether (pictured) well know...

15 April 2014 15:59