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Bridget Jones’ barrister heart-throb Mark Darcy has been killed off [Evening Standard] Barrister Hottie founders...

30 September 2013 16:16

The 11 most glistening pearls of wisdom from #AskATrainee

Yesterday between 5-6pm the latest #AskATrainee session took place on Twitter. Not all of the...

30 September 2013 09:42

Tooks chief Michael Mansfield: 3 more chambers ‘in equal trouble and likely to go in next few months’

Michael Mansfield QC has claimed that “at least three” chambers are in similar difficulties to...

30 September 2013 08:21

Morning round-up: Monday 30 September

Chris Grayling is 6′ 5″! [The Spectator] Conservative Party conference blog [Law Society Gazette] Shamed...

30 September 2013 07:43

End of the day round-up

Bob Dylan’s hair, and eight other unusual legal settlements [ABA Journal] Trainee solicitor guilty of...

27 September 2013 16:40

10 law firm ads that are so bad they’re good

By bringing in international ad agency M&C Saatchi to market its services to the public,...

27 September 2013 13:39

‘I didn’t get tenancy after my first pupillage, or my second or third’

After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...

27 September 2013 09:38

Morning round-up: Friday 27 September

The tricky matter of tweeting that Legal500 ranking: does one opt for a humblebrag or...

27 September 2013 08:27

End of the day round-up

David Allen Green: “Whether someone brandishing a sword whilst wearing a blindfold is an appropriate...

26 September 2013 16:04

Corporate lawyer who released rap about securing first job returns with personal life-themed R&B follow-up

Last year Mike Lickver celebrated getting a foot on the ladder at a top Canadian...

26 September 2013 13:17