3 videos that beautifully articulate the pain of being a law student
Results are in for US website’s annual Law Review video contest — here’s a selection of the best bits Each year American law schools do battle over who can produce the best law-inspired music video as...
View ArticleAdventures in junior lawyer advertising: The Texas Law Hawk is back
Is grabbing fish from a river with your bare hands a good way to build a legal practice? Possibly … Cast your mind back to October of last year and some readers may recall US attorney Bryan Wilson —...
View ArticleCity lawyer posts Adele-inspired ode to land law on YouTube
Charles Russell Speechlys partner celebrates lease enfranchisement through song with cover of ‘Make You Feel My Love’ It can take a while to grasp land law, but once mastered lawyers’ love for the...
View ArticleCity lawyer-to-be ‘Dimitri’ reacts to pay rise news
‘Dimitri Finds Out’ meme: the corporate law version Legal news has been dominated by money in recent weeks, with firms across the City upping trainee and newly-qualified (NQ) pay to what some believe...
View Article‘Breaking Bad’ star takes hard man role in bizarre law firm advert
First ‘Con Air’, then ‘Breaking Bad’ and now … Bergener Mirejovsky Hollywood actor Danny Trejo has had a glittering acting career, from 90s classics such as Con Air and Heat, to more recently in...
View ArticleBack to the Future’s end of lawyers prediction at least a century too early
England & Wales’ 151,692 solicitors and barristers breathe sigh of relief To celebrate Back to the Future Day, this morning we shared this image on social media from Back to the Future II, in which...
View ArticleThere is a new contender for the worst attempt at a fraudulent personal...
Police release footage of fake slip that saw man jailed for fraud A man has been jailed for nine months after staging a hilariously dramatic fall in an Asda supermarket in a bid to secure personal...
View Article‘I’m a silk and you’re not!’ — lawyers’ incredibly childish clash caught on...
You could get away with this sort of thing in small jurisdictions — before YouTube A televised debate descended into childish one-upmanship after Gibraltar’s Chief Minister tells his lawyer opponent...
View ArticleCity law firm RPC teams up with Jersey Boys star to release Slade Christmas...
Solicitor choir gets into the festive spirit for charity City law firm RPC has released a cover of Slade’s seasonal classic, ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’, with the help of Jersey Boys star Jon Boydon...
View ArticleHilarious parody video mocks privileged white law graduate
Short comical clip mimics a recent Western Sydney University ad involving a Sudanese refugee law graduate A hilarious parody video mocking a privileged white law graduate has appeared on YouTube. The...
View ArticleVideo: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the...
Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly’s suggestion didn’t go down well with one MP Conservative MP Michael Fabricant (pictured above) has apologised after responding “oh bollocks” when it was...
View Article*Scrapping Human Rights Act facepalm*
Patrick Stewart appears in comedy pro-ECHR video, but not all lawyers are impressed Actor and star of internet memes Patrick Stewart has appeared in a humorous video in which he mocks the idea of...
View ArticleTop London barristers’ clerk caught on camera referring to lawyers as ‘poxy...
Michael Cross stars in new BBC ‘Swim the Channel’ documentary A top London barristers’ clerk has been caught on camera referring to what appears to be a group of unnamed lawyers as a “poxy little firm...
View ArticleWheelchair-bound law student stands for first time in five years to collect...
He hasn’t been able to walk since a serious car crash in 2011 A University of the West of England (UWE) graduand fulfilled his dream this week, standing up for the first time in five years as he...
View ArticleLegal Cheek talks… the bar and beyond
Katie King and Tom Connelly chat about barrister turned personal trainer Eloise Le Santo and all things Judge Rinder As the bank holiday weekend approaches, Legal Cheek’s Katie King and Tom Connelly...
View ArticleLegal Cheek talks… the big stories of the summer
Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on the past few months of mental news stories As summer comes to an end and autumn begins, it’s difficult not to look back on the last few months of legal news and...
View ArticleLegal Cheek talks… comments
Katie King and Tom Connelly go below the line and respond to the readers In our latest live Facebook broadcast, Legal Cheek’s Katie King and Tom Connelly — against their better judgement — delve below...
View ArticleLegal Cheeks talks… Lord Harley and Ntokozo Qwabe
A whistle stop tour of two of our more controversial characters, and what we think about them Over at Legal Cheek, we spend our days reading about, writing about and speaking about the biggest names in...
View Article69 King’s College law students and staff star in Justin Timberlake mime-along...
Law professors dad dancing, lecture theatre shots and a cameo from the RCJ A team of law students and staff members from King’s College London (KCL) have clubbed together to make a lipdub video to...
View ArticleLegal Cheek talks… law breaking law students
Katie King and Tom Connelly discuss whether a career in law is still possible when you have a criminal past In our latest live Facebook broadcast, Legal Cheek’s Katie King and Tom Connelly examine...
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