Profession

Access to the Bar remains problematic for those with disabilities. How does your chambers measure up on accessible premises and fair recruitment? 

For frank advice on how to secure that elusive pupillage, check out two recently launched tools for applicants 

How to compete? Members’ success can hinge on practice staff ‘getting it right’ and, preferably, being better than your competitors’ team. So soft skills training makes sound sense... 

COIC welcomes applications for matched funding for 2020-21 and 2021-22 pupillages 

We all make mistakes: the secret is to learn from them. Some of those who kept on walking (and into shiny patent shoes with buckles) share their early disaster stories 

A newly qualified adventure in the Supreme Court is followed by a more literal experience 

Running from the Bar (and back again), the dynamics between bench and counsel, and why family law is no poor relation. Sagacious yet self-effacing, the second-ever female Supreme Court judge agrees to a rare interview 

Martha Cover interviews the celebrated civil rights lawyer Marcia Willis Stewart QC whose egalitarian spirit pervades all her cases 

Lawyers hiding their light under a bushel? Yes, you heard it here first. Advocate persuaded a group of committed pro bono barristers to celebrate their #IDoProBono work during Volunteers’ Week 

Take the ‘ten steps’ to safeguard our people and our profession, as IBA warns of hypocrisy after survey confirms high rate of harassment and bullying in law