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Weekend video: Best of ‘Chuck’
September 4, 2010
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Getting ahead at the Bar
Unfortunately for TheCreep it seems that the mini-pupils have already sussed him out since a quick tour of the walls of the Temple will reveal that his posters have all been slightly defaced with the first ‘a’ in the word ‘ahead’ being deleted.
So rather than his earnest sounding lecture entitled ‘TheCreep’s guide to getting ahead [...]
September 1, 2010
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In your dreams
‘I hate this job,’ said OldSmoothie. ‘Seems a far cry from my childhood dreams of becoming rich and then going into politics and becoming even richer.’
‘Such an idealistic youth you must have been,’ said BusyBody. ‘Though I have to admit that running personal injury claims is hardly the civil liberties campaigner I saw for myself [...]
August 31, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]
August 30, 2010
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Weekend video: Ari Gold from ‘Entourage’
August 28, 2010
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Time clock
OldSmoothie had a solicitor client today who was wise to OldSmoothie’s billing tactics and was extremely keen to keep the costs to a minimum.
‘I didn’t send any papers along as I wanted to be with you when you were going through them.’
‘No problem at all,’ said OldSmoothie. ‘Now, would you like a coffee before we [...]
August 27, 2010
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Virgin on the rude
‘I’ve been examining mini-pupils today,’ said OldSmoothie at chambers tea.
‘Yes, I bet you have,’ said BusyBody sarcastically.
‘In every conceivable way, no doubt,’ said UpTights.
‘Intimately,’ added BusyBody.
‘You know, sometimes I get sick and tired of the two of you lowering the tone of every conversation. Particularly when it concerns the people who carry the future of [...]
August 24, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]
August 23, 2010
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Independent on Sunday gives ‘Law and Disorder’ four stars!
The Independent on Sunday today gave Law and Disorder four stars in a book review by Inbali Iserles. To read it click here or see below:
“Litigation is like war.” So BabyBarista is told on being presented with a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War during his first day in chambers. BabyB is about [...]
August 22, 2010
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Weekend video: A Few Good Men
August 21, 2010
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Drink driving
With summer holidays looming there’s a definite de-mob happy feel to chambers at the moment and today TheVamp and I went out for a lazy lunch after having agreed a very fruitful settlement for both of us (and of course our respective clients).
We certainly weren’t planning on returning to chambers and the beer was flowing [...]
August 18, 2010
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‘Law and Disorder’ now available as an e-book
I’m really pleased to say that Law and Disorder has now been made available as an e-book. It’s available at Amazon’s Kindle store and can be read not only on their own Kindle device but also for example on iPhones and iPads using the Kindle app. You can buy it here at a reduced price of £6.53.
August 17, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]
August 16, 2010
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Weekend video: Rumpole of the Bailey’s first episode
August 14, 2010
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Book recommendation: ‘Wig Begone’ by Charles Courtley
I’ve just finished reading another fictional book about barristers called Wig Begone by Charles Courtley and can heartily recommend it. It follows the early career of a junior barrister some thirty-five years as he makes his first steps at the English bar. In doing so he comes across not only a huge range of clients and [...]
August 12, 2010
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King of the pupils
With August now upon us, the Temple has been beset by a veritable plague of mini-pupils. Little worker ants strutting their stuff and cracking jokes about how stupid or thick this or that Law Lord is to have written this or that irrelevant judgment.
With all this activity, TheCreep has spotted an opportunity to make a [...]
August 11, 2010
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Paying for experience
HeadofChambers was telling us all in tea today that he had had a solicitor email him questioning how he could possibly justify charging £5,000 for a half an hour conference and asking for a breakdown.
His reply echoed an apocryphal bill once sent by a doctor and said:
1. Conducting the conference – £250
2. Knowing the answer [...]
August 9, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]
August 9, 2010
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Get 2 free CPD hours with CPD Webinars
A few years ago I set up a company with fellow barrister Daniel Barnett called CPD Webinars. Our aim was to make getting your CPD points massively easier by providing online video seminars for personal injury and employment law. Not only that but to provide the very best speakers for each niche area. It’s proved to [...]
August 8, 2010
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Weekend video: To Kill a Mockingbird
August 7, 2010
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Launch of mass market edition of ‘Law and Disorder’
This week Bloomsbury have launched the mass market edition of the first book in the BabyBarista files. You will see on the left that not only is there a new cover but also a new title: Law and Disorder. What this means above all is that it is now cheaper and therefore better value than [...]
August 6, 2010
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FILF or FILTH?
‘I heard one of the mini-pupils describing me as a MILF today,’ said BusyBody. ‘Not sure if I should be flattered or offended.’
‘What is a MILF?’ asked OldRuin.
BusyBody looked embarrassed and TheVamp stepped in,
‘It stands for “Mother I’d like to…” er, do something rude to…’
She, too, started to look a little sheepish though OldRuin didn’t [...]
August 5, 2010
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Nose jobs
Two of the clerks were discussing the merits of UpTights as a barrister today. “Well, she certainly knows her job,” said HeadClerk.
At that moment, OldSmoothie walked into the clerks room and said, “What? Another nose job for the wicked witch?”
“That’s the only type of job you’d be able to get these days OldSmoothie,” said BusyBody.
“Jobs [...]
August 2, 2010
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Waterstones on Oxford Street today – ‘Hot, hot hot’!
August 2, 2010
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Weekend video: Idealistic law students beware…
July 31, 2010
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