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Client-focused lawyer abandons submerged Ferrari to get to hearing on time

Earlier this week photos of a Ferrari submerged in a flooded Toronto underpass went viral...

11 July 2013 08:45

‘We don’t even want to know your grades’: Is this the future of hiring pupil barristers?

Exclusive: Outer Temple Chambers has launched a new approach to graduate recruitment, which it is...

10 July 2013 09:09

Barbara Hewson’s defence of notorious age of consent article on Channel 4 news last night unlikely to win her pals

Human rights barrister Barbara Hewson’s decision to write an article for Spiked magazine arguing, amongst...

9 July 2013 09:48

Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown

On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...

8 July 2013 12:28

Spotted in the Temple: the filming of Silk series 3 — and Rupert Penry-Jones isn’t happy

The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC...

8 July 2013 08:59

Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?

Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that...

5 July 2013 10:22

Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges to rival training contract

For the first time since 2008 there will be no ‘legal executive of the year’...

4 July 2013 14:42

Witness testifies via Skype in live televised trial: what could possibly go wrong?

When, yesterday, the prosecuting lawyer in the high profile Zimmerman trial called witness Scott Pleasants...

4 July 2013 08:37

Revealed: what ‘commercial awareness’ actually means

Despite the term’s omnipresence in the world of legal graduate recruitment, few wannabe lawyers properly...

3 July 2013 11:05

Why voicemail is an imperfect medium for threatening to kill one’s former colleagues

A junior lawyer who lost his job at top US firm Bryan Cave is facing...

3 July 2013 09:13