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What’s going on at Tooks Chambers?

Rumours are raging about the future of Tooks Chambers. Yesterday Respect Party politician Lee Jasper...

19 July 2013 09:48

JK Rowling slams Soho law firm — Soho law firm hangs partner out to dry

“To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I had assumed that I could...

19 July 2013 08:34

Legal job website of the week

“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...

18 July 2013 14:09

Cycling solicitor who jumped red light claims filming him is ‘against data protection law’

Woe betide any red light-jumping cyclist who encounters SonOfTheWinds, a YouTube phenomenon who spends his...

18 July 2013 09:40

How to tell your parents that you failed your exams

Simple: present them with some even worse news to soften the blow… Hat tip to...

17 July 2013 13:21

‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ Tumblr names ‘the 21 hottest barristers in London’

A Tumblr called YourBarristerBoyfriend has produced what it terms “the first ever official Barrister Hottie...

17 July 2013 09:03

Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July

Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures] Will Frankie...

17 July 2013 08:07

All the ‘common sense’ BCAT does is increase the cost of qualifying as a barrister

Having just sat the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) — which must be taken by...

16 July 2013 13:14

Yet another top barrister quits Tooks…

The exodus began last autumn when Tim Moloney QC, Adrian Waterman QC and Tatyana Eatwell...

16 July 2013 09:15

Do the lawyers who are demanding that @Pippatips be deleted understand Twitter?

According to The Independent, Harbottle & Lewis is demanding, on behalf of Pippa Middleton, that...

15 July 2013 13:58