Tag: Solicitors
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I put a kiss on an email to my boss’
Dear Auntie Em, I wrote an email the other day to the partner in charge...
Minimum Trainee Solicitor Salary May Be Scrapped – Will Minimum Pupillage Award Be Next?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said there’s no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old...
How Would Stephen Hawking Have Fared as a City Lawyer?
Follow @legalaware The professor’s arrival would have delighted a corporate law firm PR team, but...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I got drunk and told my colleagues I hate them’
Dear Auntie Em, At last month’s office Christmas party I got very drunk and told...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
TRAINING CONTRACTS NEVER GREW ON TREES
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Current tough job market made to sound even worse by frequent comparisons with...
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: ‘I just love saying ‘going forward’!’
Dear Auntie Em, I consider myself a well spoken individual, who uses the English language...
‘MY WIFE, SHE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ME…’
Follow @debbiematthews1 Debbie Matthews regrets her night out with a senior male colleague Wednesday morning....
WHY THE OBSESSION WITH A-LEVELS?
Follow @cathrynkoz Cathryn Kozlowski focused on getting top music qualifications rather than top A-levels, but...
LEGAL AWARDS CEREMONIES: THE HORROR
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK The ‘British Legal Awards’, the grandly titled money making scam awards ceremony for...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: ALTERNATIVE CAREERS TO LAW
Dan Hoadley and Alex Aldridge, both of whom trained as barristers before going into journalism...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: I want to jack in law to become an artist
Dear Auntie Em, Last week I went to an art exhibition sponsored by my [large...
BOOZERS: THEIR BRILLIANCE AND BAD BEHAVIOUR
Writing anonymously, a partner at a top London law firm reflects on the legal profession’s...
WHAT’S DRIVING YOU, LOVE OR FEAR?
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Don’t pursue a career on the basis of what will sound good at...
THE OLD BOYS’ CLUB’S OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Follow @debbiematthews1 Women are rarely welcomed into judges’ chambers for cosy post-case chats, says Deborah...