King's Counsel is a cartoon satire on law and lawyers appearing in the law pages of The Times - Browse the archive for over 1,000 law cartoons, law jokes, lawyer jokes and law humour going back over twenty years. - Read more...
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Summer Days
18 July 2013
In theory, all lawyers get summer holidays. In practice, the problem is not earning enough time to get away but getting your work under control so you can actually leave the office...
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Information Overload
13 July 2013
Visit a law firm and what strikes you - once you get past the fancy conference rooms,
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Conflicts of interest
04 July 2013
Conflicts of interest are a nightmare for lawyers. Once upon a time lawyers could act for both sides in a transaction...
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Being The Best
27 June 2013
Sometimes being the best at a law firm isn't just not good enough, it's worse than being mediocre. Being a talented associate and a good lawyer...
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Leaving the firm
20 June 2013
Associates leave law firms for three reasons. They go to another firm, hoping to make partner somewhere else, or they move "in-house" to become counsel to, say, Amalgamated Widgets PLC...
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Legal Aid Cuts
13 June 2013
Cuts to the legal aid budget are a familiar part of Government cost-cutting. After all, who weeps over cuts to lawyer's fees? Everyone knows they're just a bunch of overpaid fat cats...
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Getting Ahead
06 June 2013
Getting ahead in a law firm is as much about politics as it is about your skills as a lawyer. You need to know what to kiss - and whose...
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Looking after clients
31 May 2013
Lawyers may be well-paid but they still have to do what their clients tell them. Few lawyers enjoy dealing with a grumpy client who wants to know exactly what their fees are being spent on, and why...
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Crime - the Barrister's Journey
24 May 2013
A career in law is full of high comedy, usually of the unintended variety. One of the best slow burning entertainments in the business is to watch the transformation of your fellow law students (and yourself) from fight-for-justice radicals into fat cat silks and coporate partners...
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Secrets of Success
10 May 2013
All barristers have their tricks - it's what makes a good advocate...
More about King's Counsel
Meet Sir Geoffrey Bentwood KC, who specializes in putting judges and juries to sleep while not-so-secretly longing to be promoted to the bench. His sidekick Edward Longwind takes lessons in pomposity from Sir Geoffrey. Meanwhile, Richard Loophole of Loophole and Fillibuster does his best to bankrupt his clients, whilst working his associates to death and pretending to remember some of the law he learned at school. At the mercy of all of them is the luckless Mr Sprocket, the endlessly unsuccessful litigant whose lawyers will not rest until they have spent all of his money.