Folklaw

25 Mar 2010

Fur is set to fly after a South Australian local council restricted to two the number of cats allowed in any one household, reports Perth Now.In a con...

25 Mar 2010

Trainees get up close and personal

Trainees of Addleshaw Goddard got more than they bargained for when they attended their annual weekend conference held in London.According to Rollonfr...

17 Mar 2010

Career change anyone?

Ex-lawyer Philip Jenks - who runs a company selling unusual law-themed gifts - has an interesting and very different job offer for Oz lawyers after so...

17 Mar 2010

Punching clients, courtroom brawls: a world of lawyers behaving badly

There are endless reports of lawyers behaving badly around the world, and in celebration (or commiseration) Folklaw has selected three of the more mem...

15 Mar 2010

Fruit thief should watch her back

Not only are the partners disappearing at Clayton Utz - but so is the fresh fruit. According to reports by Firm Spy, a Clayton Utz employee is taking ...

11 Mar 2010

Lawyer gets rude shock in toilet

A former cleaner caught spying on and trying to photograph an unfortunate woman in a Freehills toilet cubicle now faces a possible jail sentence,...

11 Mar 2010

Cheeky graffiti artist gets taste of own medicine

A Mexican judge has been fired after attempting to dish out a highly unusual punishment to a juvenile graffiti artist: spray-painting the teenager's b...

9 Mar 2010

The Lawyers Weekly's Oscars

There has been no shortage of movies made about lawyers and the law over the years, but there are some standouts that Lawyers Weekly have nominated fo...

3 Mar 2010

Students receive accidental scholarships

Prospective students of an American law school enjoyed a short-lived moment when they were told the exciting news they had received a scholarship wort...

2 Mar 2010

Lawyer creates his and hers business card

A Canadian divorce lawyer, James Mahon, has truly captured the concept of divorce with a "his and hers" business card design.According to Above the L...

26 Feb 2010

Angry spammer launches inbox blitz

American lawyers and law students have found themselves the target of a zealous and belligerent spammer aiming to stamp out racism and sexism within l...

25 Feb 2010

Not-so-red roses

UK firm Eversheds' Birmingham office has showed its romantic side to employees by sending out a firm-wide cyber-poem with which to end Valentine's Day...

23 Feb 2010

So close, yet so far...

Two unfortunate Herbert Smith trainees have been left high and dry after failing an exam in their legal practice course (LPC) by a whopping one mark, ...

16 Feb 2010

A new blouse for every six minutes

A retired American judge has been admonished for ordering a lawyer, who settled a class action lawsuit, to accept payment of his $US125,000 ($141,000)...

9 Feb 2010

Bee-careful-of-the-pranks-you-pull

An Indonesian boy was, well, stung by his own prank after the repercussions of his mischief-making left him facing criminal charges last week, The Jak...

4 Feb 2010

Busting out the ghostlawyers

Lawyers in the US have been outed for paying off writers to scribe their legal blog entries in what has been termed "ghostblogging". The practice, inc...

2 Feb 2010

Too many lawyers spoil the take

Most lawyers would be unfamiliar with clients reacting joyously at the minimal size of their legal bill, but one firm in Massachusetts has managed to ...

28 Jan 2010

Anti-terror laws stop Kid's TV terror risk

The UK's Anti-terror laws have once again saved Britain from a terror attack. This time the potential threat came in the form of two kid's TV presente...

21 Jan 2010

Lawyer starts website to show how he really feels

A Princeton attorney who launched a website attacking his former Middlesex County law firm has had it shut down by a federal judge, but that may not b...

19 Jan 2010

Legally Blonde: the Musical wins over stiff upper Brits

Legally Blonde: the Musical, which ran for a year and a half on Broadway to a largely tepid reception has gone down a treat with the usually, well, cr...