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Ready for a summer ‘re-set’?

Ready for a summer ‘re-set’?

And what benefits do you want to see? Nikki Alderson shares seven strategies to start the ball rolling… 

10 July 2023 / Nikki Alderson
Establishing a successful mentoring scheme

Establishing a successful mentoring scheme

Cath Brown sets out the steps chambers can take to make their mentoring schemes more effective and show demonstrable results

12 June 2023 / Cath Brown
Five key business skills to expand your client base

Five key business skills to expand your client base

It’s easy to overlook this side of practice management; Ann Page sets out the five steps to growing your solicitor client base 

08 May 2023 / Ann Page
Joining the AG’s panel counsel

Joining the AG’s panel counsel

What it’s like being an Attorney General panel member, why you should consider applying in the next competition, and the GLD’s commitment to diverse and fair allocation

26 April 2023 / Government Legal Department
Broadening horizons

Broadening horizons

Ready for more stability or a new challenge? Barrister consultant Kevin Harris and barrister secondee Siân Beaven on the benefits of new work streams

10 April 2023 / Kevin Harris / Siân Beaven
Becoming a lawyer from a non-legal background

Becoming a lawyer from a non-legal background

How do legal outsiders become lawyers? A ‘route map’ from David Lock KC’s Breaking Legal Glass Ceilings podcast

10 April 2023 / David Lock KC
Success in silk 2021/22 – insight

Success in silk 2021/22 – insight

Peter Purvis talks to five successful candidates from the 2021/22 competition to find out why they applied, their experience of the selection process and what advice they would share with others  

28 February 2023 / Peter Purvis
Interview all areas: your silk application

Interview all areas: your silk application

Just being brilliant at the law is not enough, though it is a requirement: an insider guide to the interview part of the KC application process. By Sara Nathan OBE

15 February 2023 / Sara Nathan OBE
Tips for writing your 2023 silk  application

Tips for writing your 2023 silk application

With the 2023 competition now open, Paul Secher provides some ‘do’s and don’ts’ when tackling the tricky written part of the application process

13 February 2023 / Paul Secher
Charter for Fairness & routes to real change

Charter for Fairness & routes to real change

With huge gulfs in male/female earnings at the Bar now notorious, what is being done apart from restating the problem? Cue the Charter for Fairness, presented by Nicola Rushton KC and Yasmin Yasseri

13 February 2023 / Nicola Rushton KC / Yasmin Yasseri
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Record pupillage numbers

Pupillage offers hit new record exceeding pre-pandemic levels, Bar Council report finds

Senior Crown Prosecutor

What’s it like being a Senior Crown Prosecutor? Stuart Page describes what drew him to the role, the skills required, and a typical day in the life

Q&A with The Barrister Group

Harry Hodgkin, CEO of The Barrister Group, gives an insight into Chambers' core principles and the individual barrister's experience

CPS in Top 10 Employers for Working Families

Congratulations to the Crown Prosecution Service – a Top 10 Employer for Working Families 2023

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Shorten the journey into the boardroom with CGIUKI’s Fast Track

With the explosion of interest in governance and the growing need to be multi-skilled to keep career options open, adding an extra string to your bow is not without its merits. The Chartered Governance Institute UK Ireland (CGIUKI) Fast Track for the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme could be ideal for experienced professionals to reach chartered governance status

42BR's state-of-the-art move

42BR Barristers announces move to modern new premises in Staple Inn