How to study law

August 28, 2008

There is some advice from Times columnist Gary Slapper on the business of studying to become a lawyer here. It is sound, indeed faultless, especially the suggestion that putative solicitors read The Trial, watch Twelve Angry Men and learn how to pronounce ‘choses in action’.

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However, if you are so inclined there is a way of evading the “prodigious reading lists” to which Professor Slapper refers. You can go off and study a different degree – an interesting one such as American and English Literature, for example – and then, a couple of years later, take the popular conversion course to law. This will undoubtedly lead to lacunae in your core legal knowledge, but a mere month or two in the real world will be enough to convince you that the study of law and its practice are, sadly, two very different things.

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Not so right said Fred

February 2, 2012
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So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.

Now you are just Fred.

Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.

The Forfeiture Committee did for you.

No one had heard of it before,

But Dave said it had to act, and it did.

Trouble is that no one knows what to think.

Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,

Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?

We don’t know.

Do you?

By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.

London Goes AWOL

January 31, 2012
CNN

STOP PRESS:

Fed up with being stuck on the Thames in south-east England, London yesterday decided to move. In a dramatic gesture which augurs ill for the Olympics, the city upped sticks and relocated to East Anglia.

Lawyers were not consulted about the move, and the city’s precise motivation remains unclear. However, financiers fear that London’s decision is a sign that it wishes to downsize. Moreover, a source from London said: “We no longer want to be Britain’s seat of power. If the Scots can deregulate, why can’t we? East Anglia is a nice place where nothing happens. It’s time for a quiet life. Please respect our right to privacy.”

Elsewhere, Birmingham did not do anything, but Manchester was seen to be packing its bags. “There’s an opportunity for us,” said Manchester. “We can become London.”

East Anglia said: “We don’t mind. It’ll be refreshing to be associated with something other than fens and flatness.”

A cartologist at CNN, which broke the extraordinary news, was later fired.

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January 25, 2012
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We seem to be visually led this week but sometimes words proliferate far too much and letting an image do the talking is no bad thing. That’s another way of saying that ACCESS Agency’s work with Lego is absolutely top drawer.