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Need legal advice? Would you like chips with that?

Welsh based firm opt for Fish and Chip based advert to haul in the clients

20 April 2015 12:20

City law firms retain more qualifying solicitors than before financial crash

There’s good news and bad in the figures -- retention is rising, but overall training contracts numbers are still shrinking

20 April 2015 09:44

Morning round-up: Monday 20 April

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

20 April 2015 08:10

Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom

It’s Friday -- so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting

17 April 2015 14:53

Chris Grayling flunks politicians’ equivalent of a training contract interview

Wannabe lawyer and local council candidate Alex Cisneros uses graduate recruitment criteria to review last night’s performance by Justice Secretary at a constituency hustings meeting

17 April 2015 12:48

An LPC grad has made a gangster film about paralegals

Harnessing the drudgery of life at the bottom of the legal food chain to launch an alternative career

17 April 2015 10:48

The Judge Rules: Politicians hate lawyers – and always have

A round-up of the party election manifestos demonstrates yet again that while the legal profession might have right on its side, the political establishment of all colours doesn’t give a monkey’s

17 April 2015 09:14

Morning round-up: Friday 17 April

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

17 April 2015 08:06

Fed up with the grind at the English bar? Perhaps this set of Kiwi jokers appeals…

Pastafarians preferred, says an Auckland barrister in desperate bid to replace the last chap, who never fit in owing to odd film tastes

16 April 2015 16:58

Birds of prey swoop into Inns of Court to protect bald barristers from seagull attacks

Life for follicly-challenged lawyers made a misery by London gulls -- but help on hand

16 April 2015 12:39