The Lawyer Shopping Channel “What a fantastic suggestion from Helen Libson to send in independent shops for present ideas!” writes Megan Hulme, a trainee at Trowers & Hamlins. “My favourite independent is my local cheesemonger: Rennet & Rind – they send out mystery cheese boxes (which contain five large British artisan cheeses) to all UK […]
The Lawyer Shopping Channel Helen Libson of Peerpoint makes the excellent suggestion that with the run-up to Christmas and what will probably be some frantic online Christmas shopping it would be a good idea if people sent in their favourite independent shops for present ideas. She kicks us off with Cocoa May: “I love sending […]
Image of the Day It is 100 years today since the Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey. The photograph below was taken by a reader about a week before the second lockdown began. Dog of the Day Jane Davies Evans of 3VB sends us pictures of two noble beasts, Dreadnought and […]
Legal professionals from overseas stuck in the UK during lockdown A quick reminder that we set up this LinkedIn group during the last lockdown and it’s open to non-UK types who find themselves stuck in Britain away from their families. Things that are also law firms, #1 We can’t imagine this will be a long-lived […]
We’ve all been there. You finish university, perhaps your LPC too, only to find that you cannot get any work experience (voluntary or paid) because you don’t have any experience. It’s a vicious circle which can be hard to break out from. In 2016, the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) worked with the Law Society to […]
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Covid-19 has affected everyone in different ways and those who have recently qualified are no different. In a Covidworld NQs are finding themselves in an unusual position, as many are mainly working from home rather than at the office. Even though the majority of NQs have already experienced working from home since March as trainees, […]
The Solicitor’s Regulation Authority (SRA) has recently submitted its final application to the Legal Services Board (LSB) requesting approval to replace the current routes to becoming a solicitor with the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). If there’s anyone that doesn’t know what the introduction of the SQE will mean for how people become solicitors, the following […]
Coming into this year, none of us could have expected the chaos and disruption which pursued. With many of us in a transitional phase as a result, now seems to be an ideal opportunity to evaluate past choices and use that knowledge to make future plans. Here are my top five pieces of advice to […]
Covid-19 and the increased time at home has given us all the opportunity to find time for our own thoughts. For me, among other things, thoughts turned to 2008 and the financial crash which resulted in the recession. I graduated in 2007 with a biological sciences degree from Nottingham University. Growing up I was repeatedly […]
At 50 plus, while not quite an elder statesman, I am certainly at the “experienced” end of the scale. So what have the experiences of nearly 30 years as a Scottish lawyer been? Going back even further than that, university in Glasgow in the late 1980s was undoubtedly fun and pretty liberated. New Romantic fashion […]
‘You are old and straight’ is not how most people are asked to write their Pride story, but this is what happened to me, so perhaps a little context is required. As a white, straight guy of a certain age (okay, 59) I have been fortunate not to have ‘knowingly’ suffered any prejudice, either in […]