This… from The White Rabbit.. I like!

The rabbit was hopping down High Holborn this lunchtime after returning from a visit to the Big House aka Her Majesty’s Prison Feltham when he spotted the above young lady with her billboard. Just in case it’s not clear to all from the pic it reads: ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MOTIVATED AMBITIOUS, TALENTED LEGALLY [...]

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Letter from The Staterooms

Dear Reader The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and we head towards the season I enjoy most – Winter. RollonFriday.com runs with the story this week: Exclusive: bids thought to be in for College of Law, and MBO on the cards 28 October 2011: Rumours are circulating that the College of [...]

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Rive Gauche: Rants and What fills that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails?

Life can get in the way of amusement and blogging on occasion – but, fortunately, I now have time to have a look about and see what is happening in the legal world. I am not a fan of mavenry, “Top this and that lists” and awards on social media – A ‘painting’ I did [...]

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Not enough people are catching Eboli… so NHS waiting times for that are down !

The rains came to London today.  I enjoy rainy grey days.   I also enjoy wasting time by watching Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday and the analysis on Daily Politics. I sometimes wonder why I enjoy it.  Simple pleasures? Today’s PMQs was particularly simple – and Mr Miliband was invisible – as he often is. But… [...]

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Law Review: Two new Local Law Society bulletins

Two local Law Society bulletins which may be of interest… Derby & District Law Society Journal Herts Law Society Journal

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Law Review: No rooms at The Inn and what makes a good lawyer?

“The number of students who want to become barristers shows little sign of diminishing with 3,100 applicants to the Bar Professional Training Course (BTPC) in 2010/2011 and 3,016 in 2011/2012. In 2010/2011 1,618 students successfully enrolled on the BTPC” With a steady downward trend in the number of pupillages over the past ten year – [...]

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PURE CLASS!: Viscount Monckton – funniest thing Lord Shagger has seen all weekend…

Charon I know you are busy planning your absurd Van Rouge tour – but… please… take a minute or two out of your busy schedule to watch this marvellous satire film from Australia about fellow peer Lord Monckton, a UKIP chap (apparently head of research – whatever that means in UKIP terms) …..most amusing. Aussie [...]

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The Lawyer Blog Review #1 with David Allen Green is out!

David Allen Green writes in The Lawyer: “Why should you bother with legal blogging?  Why not just stick with the trade journals, case reports, Westlaw updates, free promotional emails, and any legal news in the newspapers?  Why add to the burden of reading?  Surely there is enough legal information?…” As always with DAG – a [...]

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Eyes Only – What the law blogs are up to this week (Part 3)…

The Law Society Gazette: Private equity buys into QualitySolicitors “QualitySolicitors has agreed a funding deal which marks the first major investment by private equity in the high street legal market, the Gazette can reveal. Pan-European private equity house Palamon Capital Partners has invested a ‘significant’ sum in QS. The agreement will see it gain a [...]

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Eyes Only – What the law blogs are up to this week (Part 2)…

“It would help if government ministers did not cheer when they agreed with a judicial decision or boo when they disagreed with it. That I think is damaging.” Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice The Guardian 19th October 2012 It has always struck me as rather odd when  politicians, frequently Home Secretaries, say they are ‘disappointed’ [...]

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Eyes Only – What the law blogs are up to this week (Part1)…

I thought I would start with something for all the Apple fanbois out there.  I am grateful to John Bolch at Family Lore for bringing this excellent nonsense to my attention.    Siri – where can I find a blow job As this is supposed to be a review of law blogs in the UK and [...]

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EYES ONLY! – Review of UK law blogs…weekly on Thursdays…

Is law blogging an art?  No, I don’t think so. Most of the law bloggers I read – seem to blog for pleasure and they do it well… with many varied styles. Even if I had a dog… I would not take it to Crufts.  The pleasure in the dog is the dog. The pleasure [...]

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Update to the “Van Rouge” UK Tour.

Just a quick post to update on my plan to tour the UK in a ‘van’ and talk law. Concept:  To tour the UK and Northern Ireland in a van – well, an old landrover or other off road vehicle  and live in a tent -  and talk to lawyers and non-lawyers, including politicians, about [...]

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Lord Shagger writes from Monaco…..preternatural ineptitude

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Tory policy to clear bins weekly now makes sense !

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#WithoutPrejudice 13: Carl Gardner on his trip to Nowhere Island in The Arctic!

Welcome to Without Prejudice – a special Without Prejudice – where I talk with Carl Gardner about his recent trip to Nowhere Island  a new island in the Arctic.  Next Thursday we will resume our fortnightly Without Prejudice podcasts with the panel, a slight change in format and structure. Sadly, David Allen Green can’t be [...]

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The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts – a new marketing initiative for lawyers.

The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts – a new marketing initiative for lawyers. Government plans to ban referral fees in personal injury claims on grounds  that they fuel compensation culture and have led to a rise in insurance costs will put pressure on law firms to up their marketing.  These [...]

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Angst wrecking your day? You need an iCanphone….

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Law Review: #Twitteratigate ! A response to The Lawyer list of top legal tweeters….

I am not a fan of ludicrous lists of top tweeters, top bloggers blah blah blah. Invariably (Inevitably – for no-one can know all the tweeters or bloggers?) they are inaccurate or, if subjective, based on whim.  The Lawyer published a list of ‘Top Legal Tweeters’ written by fellow blogger David Allen Green last week.  [...]

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Rive Gauche: Flawger, Flâneur and Friday frippery….

David Allen Green, solicitor, blogger, tweeter, legal correspondent for The New Statesman and now media correspondent for The Lawyer,  considers tweeting lawyers… and puts the boot in, indirectly, to the ‘flawgers’ by not mentioning them.. Twitter provides a poor “return on investment” for cynical lawyers and related professionals who just want to expand their internet [...]

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