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Don’t you step into my courtroom wearing blue suede trainers, judge tells lawyer
Recently we reported on the judge who sent a defendant to the cells for wearing...
Incorrect tweet forces BPP to reveal how many of its grads bagged training contracts
Lawyer2B has a piece today detailing the employment rates of the biggest Legal Practice Course...
Why do you need a degree to do the Graduate Diploma in Law?
In Saturday’s The Times, Giles Coren argued that formal education is pretty much worthless —...
Solicitor who finished training contract last year is made a partner by City law firm
Most solicitors have to wait the best part of a decade to become a partner....
Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter
Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of...
Bagging a training contract: the 10 most memorable celebratory Instagram posts
Solicitors-to-be have been out in force this week on Instagram, sharing the good news about...
‘I became distracted by targets, billing hours and rates’
Having strived for years to get there, Andrew Sharpe found that the salesman function of...
The courtroom in a bus that hopefully won’t give Chris Grayling any big new ideas
A mobile courtroom in a bus has been launched in Pakistan in a bid to...
How to survive the first terrifying weeks as a newly qualified solicitor
You never forget your first. Your pulse rockets, your stomach turns over uncomfortably and your...
‘We have lollipops’: lawyer’s surreal response to cease & desist letter goes viral
Inspired, perhaps, by this wonderful recent response to a “ham-fisted” cease and desist letter, US...