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We ain't no angels - TV's mixed efforts to portray life at the criminal Bar
You may have spent an hour of your life last night watching the first episode of new ITV1 legal drama Eternal Law. If you missed it, in short, two angels have been sent from heaven to practise at the criminal defence Bar, and they're not allowed to ha...
06 Jan 2012 | 12:15
Does the legal profession need scholars?
We do not need practising lawyers to be devoted purely to the pursuit of knowledge. We cannot expect it of them, nor would it be in their client's best interests. Lots of lawyers do not have to think or learn in the scholarly sense. They understand, r...
05 Jan 2012 | 13:56 | 1 comment
A second bite - why the Stephen Lawrence verdict means the abolition of double jeopardy is here to stay
Eighteen years after Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack in southeast London, Gary Dobson and David Norris have been convicted of his murder. As well as bringing a sense of closure, the convictions represent a significant legal milestone as...
04 Jan 2012 | 13:08
The Stephen Lawrence verdict: five key questions
"Stephen Lawrence lived for 18 years, 7 months and 9 days. It took 18 years, 8 months and 12 days to bring his killers to justice". The newspapers have been full of headlines and Twitter full of posts such as the one above. Everyone hopes that the ...
04 Jan 2012 | 12:27
Crystal ball, oh crystal ball - predictions for the legal market in 2012
It's time for The Careerist to peer into her crystal ball, read the tea leaves, and commune with the spirits that govern the fates of the legal profession. Here are her 10 divinations for 2012:
03 Jan 2012 | 15:19
Negotiation: the art of compromising positions
"Good lawyers breathe oxygen into a negotiation, less good ones exhale hot air" - FT general counsel Tim Bratton on why negotiation is an art form...
03 Jan 2012 | 08:33
Fluxed – it’s gonna be a bumpy 2012
I must confess that when Friederike, the Legal Week reporter who covers Linklaters, told me a few weeks back that she was working on a story about the firm launching another partnership restructuring, my pundit powers had utterly failed me - I hadn't ...
15 Dec 2011 | 15:02
Re: Agreement for the Delivery of Presents - a christmas contract
Re: Agreement for the Delivery of Presents - we refer to your letter of 2 December, and its enclosed draft greement between the Santa Claus Group and our client Mr Timothy Taylor (referred to in the Agreement as "Little Timmy").
12 Dec 2011 | 13:59
The hard facts - why aspiring lawyers still need more than just the internet
If I were to be completely honest about it, I’d say that I went through at least a third of my undergraduate law degree in virtual ignorance of the one thing you would expect a law student to know quite a bit about: case law. I didn’t really know ...
06 Dec 2011 | 08:00 | 4 comments
Who rules? The simple question that still defines the global legal industry
This blog isn't really my opinion on Herbert Smith - I'm keeping my powder dry for a little longer on that one - but this week's effective break-up of the City firm's merger hopes and European alliance does illustrate a factor that has been hugely on ...
25 Nov 2011 | 10:30
Asian American lawyers: still too nerdy to get to the top?
I just got back from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association powwow in Atlanta, and here's my unedited gut reaction: This was a seriously good looking crowd. And I'm not saying this because I'm part of the tribe. By any measure, this was a...
23 Nov 2011 | 12:01
Is it time to split the Law Society and the SRA?
We may be in an era of outcomes-focused regulation, but nobody thought to tell those who drew up the deal between the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over their governance arrangements.
21 Nov 2011 | 11:20
Pale, stale and male
It is a truth universally acknowledged that white men in possession of large fortunes are overly represented on the bench. Yet, while it is easy to label the judiciary as "too white, too male, too posh", constructive solutions to the situation have pr...
18 Nov 2011 | 13:43
Freemen of the dangerous nonsense
Today (15 Novemeber), guardian.co.uk's Comment is Free (CIF) was "taken over" by the Occupy London movement. This has led to two particularly worrying articles being published. Both purport to offer legal advice which, if followed, could lead you stra...
16 Nov 2011 | 10:53
Sexual harassment is not all bad
To all the readers who have been complaining that The Careerist gets too uptight (click here and here) about gender discrimination, I'm ready to offer you a truce. On the sexual harassment front, at least, I'm now holding my fire.
15 Nov 2011 | 10:44
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