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Barrister creates two YouTube homages to himself: which one do you prefer?

YouTube is a tricky medium to get right. Still, full marks to 33 Bedford Row’s...

6 August 2013 09:23

The worst attempt at a fraudulent personal injury claim ever?

Viral video website site Break.com released footage over the weekend of what may well be...

5 August 2013 13:11

5 ways to announce to the world that you’ve bagged a pupillage

Friday was, of course, pupillage offer day. For the lucky ones, there was delight, followed...

5 August 2013 09:00

‘The longer they could keep their young hungry bucks down, the better it was for the firm’

In this week’s ‘If I knew then what I know now’, former Bond Pearce solicitor...

2 August 2013 13:11

Tooks withdraws mini-pupillage due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ — and rules out placements for 2014

In the latest sign that all is not well at Tooks Chambers, Michael Mansfield QC’s...

2 August 2013 11:17

Tuckers senior partner says it’s ‘not my job 2 care about justice’ and that he couldn’t ‘give a flying f… about anybody else’

After David Dickinson look-a-like (and Tuckers Solicitors senior partner) Franklin Sinclair showed off his Jaguar...

2 August 2013 09:20

How junior lawyers can survive a merger

In the wake of yesterday’s tie-up between SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons —...

1 August 2013 12:38

11 tweets that encapsulate the horror of training contract deadline day

As the deadline for submitting training contract applications to most big law firms passed into...

1 August 2013 09:23

Angel Chambers family law barrister in top bodybuilding competition win

Christina Chinnock of Angel Chambers in Swansea has scooped one of the top prizes at...

31 July 2013 12:37

‘We would be foolish indeed to sneer at the principle of the barrister hottie’

After overcoming his initial scepticism, OccupyTheInns — who will shortly be commencing pupillage — is...

31 July 2013 11:23