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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Housing benefits</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Life as a litigator has given me a fear of working in partnership, and of owning a flat.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:18:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Cameras in court</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[This week on the BPTC has been really interesting; I've completed my first set of closing submissions in immigration (If you’ve never done immigration law it’s a completely different style from anything else you will ever do), received my first set of results (not going to say what but I’m very happy!) and also my first offer for a pupillage interview (woo!).]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Football: a new crime of passion?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s a fact; the police and the criminal justice system are becoming increasingly involved in sport.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:47:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Plume - Putting things in perspective (of the bench)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Last week, I completed a marshalling placement at my local Crown Court. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:56:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Plume - Beyond the BPTC</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[With the end of the course fast approaching, my thoughts are beginning to turn to future plans and what I am now calling 'life after the BPTC'.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - The Olympics - burden for businesses?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[With the Olympic Games now less than 100 days away, final preparations for the huge event are taking place such as the planning of the Olympic Torch’s journey around the country.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:13:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Hostile mothers</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I'm currently en route to a final hearing for a man whom I've been representing since 2010.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:15:46 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Exam revision time</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Congratulations to those that have received exam results already and passed with flying colours.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:04:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - The tyranny of choice</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[What to choose, what to choose? Life is full of decisions, and right now the decisions weighing heaviest on my mind are which topics to revise for my exams in two weeks.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Let the good times roll</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The LPC core practice area results are out for BPP students!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:32:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Life after the BPTC - what next?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Now that the Pupillage Portal has closed for another year (yay!) and the majority of non-portal applications are done, thoughts turn to one of two things.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:45:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Help the aged</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court today delivered two judgements on age discrimination.
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                  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Jade Ferguson - Trainees: will they live happily ever after?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I was watching The Little Mermaid last week while clearing my room in preparation for my impending move across town.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - The only thing to feel is fear itself</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It has been playing on my mind recently that a ‘revision break’ should probably involve a period of actual revision.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:07:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Exams are over!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am very relieved to say, as are probably all students on the BPTC, that the compulsory exams are now over and it’s time for the options (in my case advanced criminal and immigration law) to start.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:45:33 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - The drugs don't work</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in a previous blog, I am currently completing a placement: one day per week with a firm specialising in criminal and mental health law.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:20:44 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Rebels without a cause</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Boy, people are really annoyed at Trenton Oldfield! At least, most of my Facebook friends are – I suppose it's possible that it has something to do with the fact that a large amount of them are from Oxford.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:51:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - A friend as a client: a big dilemma</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As a criminal lawyer, you hope that you never have a friend or family member fall afoul of the criminal justice system, as you know how crooked and unfair it can be.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:41:31 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>The City Lawyer  - Work 3.0</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The advance of technology has vastly impacted our lives in many ways. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:22:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - 10 things you must do in your career as criminal solicitor…</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[After speaking to experienced solicitors with with dozens of war stories and countless tales of winning against the odds due to overwhelming evidence and prosecution-minded judges, I’ve made a list of the 10 things that a criminal lawyer will or must do in their career.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/10-things-you-must-do-in-your-career-as-criminal-solicitor/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - The five people you will meet in the library</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It is a universally acknowledged truth that we all develop different ways to cope with the stresses of revision time.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:09:59 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Unfair dismissal – when justice becomes a burden (part two)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As one might expect, the decision has proved highly controversial, although most commentators concede that it is not entirely devoid of merit: it will at least go some way to prevent employers being held to ransom by lazy, ineffectual employees who abuse the protection afforded to them under the current regime.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:58:40 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Unfair-dismissal--When-justice-becomes-a-burden-part-two/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Unfair dismissal – when justice becomes a burden (part 1)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I don’t usually use my blog as a forum for airing my political opinions, but where basic employment rights are being tampered with, I’m prepared to make an exception.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:04:30 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Unfair-dismissal--when-justice-becomes-a-burden-part-1/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - Revision, repetition and review</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It's official- revision can definitely send you crazy.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/Revision-repetition-and-review/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - All stick, no carrot</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As I am completing my training contract at a specialist family law firm, it is necessary for me to complete a placement elsewhere to ensure that I get experience in other areas.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:06:39 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/All-stick-no-carrot/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - The loot infantry</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A coursework deadline is only a few days away.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Sunday trading laws</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Sunday trading laws are to be relaxed this Summer in a move that could pave the way for longer weekend opening hours all year round.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:10:59 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Sunday-Trading-Laws/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Work placement schemes</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Work experience, in any field, is of great importance in order to truly gain an understanding of the challenges faced in that area.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:50:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Reality check</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[All anyone on the BPTC seems to be going on about at the minute is the opening of pupillage portal.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:51:40 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - The legalisation of gay marriage</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A bill is currently being considered by the House of Lords concerning whether gay marriage should be legalised.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:45:47 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/The-legalisation-of-gay-marriage/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Injunctivitis</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am presently sat in the waiting area of the Chester county court (waiting for a hearing in which I shall ask for an order for substituted service of a bankruptcy petition – I won’t bore you with the details here), and am typing this blog post into my Blackberry.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:23:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - What the LPC</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In all the commotion of the closing stages of the GDL (final weeks of classes, coursework deadlines rushing up), I had almost forgotten about the other course I’m supposed to be starting next year.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:07:38 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/What-the-LPC/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Jade Ferguson - 'Tesco law': the end of status?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[If you have done legal work, you will know that while there is lots of interaction with clients in the office and over the phone, most of the work you do day-to-day is while sitting at a desk. It is fair to say that working in a law firm is an office job with status.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:40:02 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/JadeFerguson/Tesco-Law--The-end-of-status/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - A humbling experience…</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[On 5 August 2011, my client Mr Holmes had been charged and remanded into custody for a number of offences.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:40:26 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/A-humbling-experience/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - More than words</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[If the only goal of the Kony 2012 campaign was to get people talking about it, then boy have they succeeded.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:22:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Scholarship time</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It's that time of year again where those of you looking at the BPTC are heading off to London for your scholarship interviews at one of the four Inns of Court, so I thought that this might be a good chance to tell you what went on at my interview last year and maybe give you a few tips.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:43:44 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Fear (and loathing)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I can recall when it dawned on me that being a lawyer is a proper job. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:54:47 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Fear-and-loathing/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Mixed reviews</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In the course of working in criminal defence, you cannot please everyone.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:21:25 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Mixed-reviews/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Costa Del Swansea</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Whichever way you look at it, 6% is not very much.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Costa-Del-Swansea/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - Pupillage panic</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As if exam preparation wasn't enough, it’s also that time of year when all aspiring barristers must turn their attention to the pupillage portal.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:51:54 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - I want it that way</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Back in July, Mystic Ed made some predictions for the year...]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:41:53 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/I-want-it-that-way/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Every little helps</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The Legal Services Act, or ‘Tesco Law’ as it has become known, marked a major change in the composition of the legal services as we know them.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:23:26 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Plume - Four weeks and counting...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[With exams fast approaching, once again the library has become my home from home.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:43:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Who do I think I am?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am a dedicated, hardworking and passionate individiual who is breaking my back (and my bank balance) in order to help the most vulnerable people in our society.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Who-do-I-think-I-am/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Mediation meditation</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In my thus far fruitless attempts to transform myself into the all-round paragon of virtue that law firms seem to expect these days for anyone to get through to the interview stage of the application process, I have been keen to take part in any optional extras the university has made available.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:39:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - Problem case</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[How many of you have read a case report in its entirety? That was the question posed to us in one of our lectures recently. Most of the students in the room raised a hand, but a non-negligible minority demurred.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Something to talk about</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Colours seem brighter. Smells are sweeter. I wake up each morning - well, each afternoon - with a sense that I am lighter than air. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:20:58 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Food, glorious food</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[One of the best parts of training to be a barrister is definitely all the functions and dinners you get to go to.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:57:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Wipped</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Following the 10% fee cuts which were introduced to legally-aided work this month, we are still being pushed as hard as ever.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:20:29 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Progress report (part one)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The second semester of the part-time LPC is now well under way, so I thought now might be the opportune moment for a bit of mid-year course evaluation.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:55:36 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Progress-report-part-one/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Personally injured</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It is because of luck (not to mention moral fortitude) that I am able to write a blog post today.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Personally-injured/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Progress report (part two)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As it transpired, my fears were not unjustified.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:44:16 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Progress-report-part-two/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Jade Ferguson - Testing the waters</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It will come as no surprise to anyone reading this that training contracts are pretty hard to come by. Last summer, the Association of Graduate Recruiters' survey revealed that there are 65.5 applicants for every training contract.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>The City Lawyer  - The offshore life</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[What would an inaugural post be if it wasn't about a lawyer's ability to trade in his rain coat for a jet ski and his tie for swimming trunks? ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:37 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/CityLawyer/The-Offshore-Life/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Taking the stand</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be a witness and give evidence at a trial. It almost became a reality last week.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:14:07 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Taking-the-stand/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - Approaching that time of year</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The first buds of exam season have bloomed at BPP: a little crocus to presage the stressful springtime to come.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:02:34 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/Approaching-that-time-of-year/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - New job</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[This has been an interesting week. The course only has three or four weeks to go until exams really kick in.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/New-Job--/?source=rss</link>
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                  <description><![CDATA[Having read the Gazette and my fellow blogger Hummingbird's recent piece, there seems to be yet another debate over trainee salaries.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:40:04 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Not-prepared-to-work-on-a-minimum-wage-who-do-you-think-you-are/?source=rss</link>
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                  <description><![CDATA[With an ethics mock exam looming, and the fear beginning to set in, I thought I would use the spare(!) time that I have to ask some of the questions I have been longing to have answered this term. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/Exam-Rubric/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - Preparing for the everyday</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[There are two things that loom particularly large in the minds of people studying the GDL: exams and jobs.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:34:43 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/Preparing-for-the-everyday/?source=rss</link>
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                  <description><![CDATA[Last week I was lucky enough to go to India for a mooting competition in Delhi.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/An-advocate-abroad/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Are you gonna go my way?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am only a handful of sessions away from finishing the core practice modules of the LPC!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:12:38 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Are-you-gonna-go-my-way/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Mend it, don't end it?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Sir Paul Coleridge, High Court Judge, has started a campaign to encourage parents to work at their relationships and to mend the marriages rather than end them.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:50 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Mend-it-dont-end-it/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Pro bono worries</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I must admit that I had a bit of a panic about my future this week, most particularly about my CV and whether it was lacking in this or that. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/Pro-bono-worries/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Under pressure</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It was the night before my family law exam and I was due to take a train from Paddington to Swansea for my exam the next day. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:50:51 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Under-pressure/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Defamation</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I took an enquiry from somebody looking for advice about defamation.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - To GDL and back (part 2)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[GDL survival tips.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:11:14 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/To-GDL-and-back-part-2/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - National minimum for trainees?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has begun a consultation to decide whether the minimum salary for trainee solicitors should be abolished.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:05:53 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/National-minimum-for-trainees/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - To GDL and back (part one)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Having found myself devoid of any interesting LPC-related anecdotes of late, I thought it might be a good idea to post one or two pearls of wisdom for anyone considering taking the GDL.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:23:53 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/To-GDL-and-back-part-one/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - News to me</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[For GDL students, the news can provide an interesting insight into what we can expect in our future careers.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/News-to-me/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Revisionism</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It's revision week for my students.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The recent Wikipedia blackout, apart from being the worst thing that's happened to students since Pot Noodles went up in price (sorry, that was weak - must try harder) has once again raised the issue of piracy in the public consciousness.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:18:23 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Yo-Ho-Ho-and-a-Bottle-of-Rum/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Procrastination</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year that any student dreads – January exams.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Procrastination/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Nose back to the grindstone</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Well, time for an update regarding life on the BPTC.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:55:05 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/Nose-back-to-the-grindstone/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Once a bad guy, always a bad guy?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Over the last six months, there were two very important and prominent murder trials.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Once-a-bad-guy-always-a-bad-guy/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Turning over a new leaf</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s the time when people make resolutions for the up-and-coming year.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Turning-over-a-new-leaf/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Spring term</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Well, now all the presents are opened, the turkey has been stripped to the bone and the naff-yet-strangely-addictive television has stopped, it's now back to reality and back to looking towards next term and the start of the dreaded exams.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:05:57 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - 2012</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[2012 is sure to be another incredibly hard year in our line of work, most notably with the 10% cuts looming over us.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:24:21 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/2012/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - The bare necessities</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[With Christmas and the new year receding, a BPP LPC student's thoughts turn, in idle moments, to solicitors' accounts and professional conduct and regulation - the two exams we have on the morning and afternoon of January 5. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:45:44 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/The-bare-necessities/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Happy Boxing day!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Call me Ebeneezer.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:16:15 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Happy-boxing-day/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Laundry services</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’ve spent many a thrilling hour considering money laundering and fraud.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:41:05 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Laundry-services/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Semester one done</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As I am writing this, there is a painful throbbing in my head, owing to the fact I had one glass of wine too many at the law networking Christmas social last night. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Semester-one-done/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Ebeneezer Scrooge</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Somehow, I still can’t get my head around it that it is Christmas.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:49:43 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Ebeneezer-Scrooge/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - GDL, GDL, GD-all the way…</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Father Christmas has brought his best gift early: a few weeks’ holiday from law school. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:51:43 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/GDL-GDL-GD-all-the-way/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Christmas is coming</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Life as a family lawyer becomes increasingly busy in the run up to Christmas, as we resolve contact disputes and determine who will have the rugrats over Christmas, and when. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:36:06 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Christmas-is-coming/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - A Christmas carol, part 2</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Bah humbug. Or at least, that is definitely the Christmas sentiment I'm embracing with a permanent crick in my neck and a stoop to my shoulders, after hours hunched over, working for the first round of BPTC exams.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:16:16 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/A-Christmas-carol-part-2/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - A Christmas carol</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[God rest ye merry BPTCers]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:30:51 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Unmitigated terror</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am currently re-reading Dracula, and I would suggest that you stop reading this post if you want the end of that novel to remain a secret.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:05:45 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Unmitigated-terror/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Read all about it</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[One of the good things about living with someone who’s doing the LPC at the College of Law is that it allows me to compare it with the course I’m doing at BPP.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:33:31 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Read-all-about-it/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - One term down</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I thought in this blog I’d have a bit of a look back at how the BPTC has developed in the past few months, comparing how I feel now to how I did when I started, and having a look at some of the stuff I have been getting up to and the things I have achieved.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:33:36 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/One-term-down/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - GDL report card – part two</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In my last post I summed up some early conclusions about a few of the subjects covered on the conversion course. Now it’s the turn of the more public-minded areas, filled with directives, death and…er…Dicey.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:01:25 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/GDL-report-card--part-two/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - No further action</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As a trainee solicitor, I’m not able to represent clients at court. My trials come in the form of a police station interview, where my not-guilty verdicts come in the form of no further action (NFA).]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:37:40 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/No-further-action/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - What’s so civil about partnership?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The past few years of working at a litigation practice (first as a paralegal; now as a trainee) has left me with a near-paralysing fear of two things, namely owning a flat (a fear I don’t intend to elaborate on today) and working in partnership (which I do).]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:47:17 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Whats-so-civil-about-partnership/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Public access, you're having a laugh</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In terms of criminal defence, the truth is that barristers need solicitors more than solicitors need barristers. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:34:29 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Public-access-youre-having-a-laugh/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - Moot point</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Despite the current pressures of the course and looming exams, I have committed quite a bit of time preparing for and competing in mooting competitions. Glutton for punishment or time well spent?

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                  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:09:20 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/Moot-point/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - GDL report card – part one</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s just past the halfway point of the first term of the conversion course, and opinions about the subjects we’re studying are starting to solidify.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:49:06 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/GDL-report-card--Part-One/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Timetable for action (Part 2)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The game all BPTC students have to play: Pupillage Portal.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Timetable-for-action-Part-2/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - LPC quandary</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[New figures have been released revealing how many training contracts were registered last year compared to how many people enrolled on the LPC.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:38:19 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/LPC-quandary/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking... (Part 2)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The advocacy mock required us to conduct an interim hearing in which one of us, taking the role of the claimant’s solicitor, applied to the court for disclosure and inspection of certain documents.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:42:27 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Unaccustomed-as-I-am-to-public-speaking-Part-2/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Dining time!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I know I’ve spoken about them before, but seeing as they are a major part of life on the BPTC (there isn’t a week when someone I know isn’t going down to London for one reason or another), I think it’s time I gave you all another little insight on how things are going with the Inns of Court - and for me that means Inner Temple.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:20:18 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/Dining-time/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Bid, bid away</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The results of the latest legal aid bid round were recently published, although the word on the street seems much quieter and subdued than following the last bid round.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:20:32 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Bid-bid-away/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Waity matters</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I write this post on the way back from London following a productive day in the Employment Tribunal.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Waity-Matters/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking... (Part 1)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Advocacy is the one aspect of being a lawyer that I’ve always viewed as a necessary evil, for the simple reason that public speaking has never come easily to me.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Unaccustomed-as-I-am-to-public-speaking-Part-1/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Timetable for action (Part 1)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As a kid, there wasn’t anything in the world more exciting than this time, but now as a twenty-something aspiring lawyer, Christmas is only associated with coursework assessments, endless amounts of revision and Christmas vac schemes.
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                  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:59:35 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Timetable-for-action-Part-1/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - I should have known better</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Y'know, I used to think that phrases like 'time management', 'analytical skills', 'teamwork skills' and the like were all just recruitment speak.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:43:09 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/I-Should-Have-Known-Better/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - For all you barristers-to-be</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I have noticed, via the LawCareers.Net courses page, that the BPTC applications system for September 2012 is now open.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:34:01 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/For-all-you-Barristers-to-be/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - A reading week retrospective</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Rarely has a reading week been so gratefully received. Only halfway through the first term of the law conversion course, the relief at getting a chance to hit the pause button and breathe was palpable among the students.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:16:28 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/A-reading-week-retrospective/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - A lesson in well worn clich&#233;s</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The long awaited landmark of reading week has finally arrived.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:38:06 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/A-lesson-in-well-worn-clichs/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Theft of a dog</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’ve represented hundreds of clients at the police station who have been arrested for a number of different offences. From the strange and bizarre, to the nasty and downright evil. I thought I'd seen it all until a few weeks ago.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Theft-of-a-dog/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - A moving experience</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Being a trainee solicitor at a boutique litigation firm isn’t all private jets to Cannes and cocaine parties with Supreme Court judges.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:40:33 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/A-moving-experience/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Gotta Get Thru This</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A lady friend recently told me I was the A.A. Gill of Law Degree blogging.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:47:24 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Gotta-Get-Thru-This/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - At long last...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I am turning 25 today and finally starting my training contract tomorrow, meaning that I will qualify on my 27th birthday. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/At-long-last/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - An early Christmas present</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Due to how busy my firm is (I’ve been told that we’re the busiest criminal law firm in Berkshire), it’s not very often that I see the boss. If I do it’s usually in the morning, before the office opens.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:59:05 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/An-early-Christmas-present/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Trick or Treat!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The witching hour is almost here, when we see the return of wizards, witches, ghosts and ghouls, all running around in a street near you]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Trick-or-Treat/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - The Ten Step programme to mini-pupillage success</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s always a good idea to know who’s who, what's currently going on at the chambers and any important cases that they’ve been involved in recently. You never know what you’re going to get asked or who you’re going to be with so make sure you’re up to date before you go!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:01:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - A lecture conjecture</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A few weeks into the conversion course and a question I remember from my undergraduate days has started to resurface: is it worth attending lectures?]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:26:52 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/A-lecture-conjecture/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - A very different kind of week!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Well it’s reading week for all at Nottingham Law School and in fairness the week has lived up to its name.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:37:20 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/A-very-different-kind-of-week/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Electives</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Choosing to do the course part time required some careful deliberation because, unlike full-time students, part-timers are not usually given the option to work in the student law office as one of their electives.
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                  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Swallow your pride</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[November is fast approaching and that means the start of two time-honoured traditions.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:41:31 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Back to the classroom</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It’s autumn, and that means that the autumn term has started.

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                  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Back-to-the-Classroom/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Living for the City, part 2</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[…and crashed into a group of pedestrians, sending them flying!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:31:35 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Living-for-the-City-Part-2/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Pot, kettle, black</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[All office-dwellers should beware the caffeine-clashes and brewing resentments that can result from kitchen kettle politics...]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:27:14 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Pot-kettle-black/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - An early application of pressure</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell some decades ago.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:03:36 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/An-early-application-of-pressure/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - Keeping up with the pace...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Where would we be without the wisdom of friends?]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:44:59 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Living for the City, part one</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The following is a taster of life in London, on the LPC, and is based on actual events…]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:44:11 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Living-for-the-City-Part-One/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Refreshers</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Well the week (or fortnight, if you’re lucky) that all new university students look forward to at the beginning of each academic year came and went very quickly - and in a bit of a blur, if I’m completely honest. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - To mingle or not to mingle...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Fun fact of the week: did you know that Sir Ian McKellen is an honorary member of Inner Temple? Well, neither did I!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/To-mingle-or-not-to-mingle/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - The good, the bad and the truly ugly…</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As with most professions, you get some people who are good at their job and some who are not.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/The-good-the-bad-and-the-truly-ugly/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Everyone’s representing murderers</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I went on a criminal law update course organised by the fantastic and knowledgeable Andrew Keogh a few weeks ago. It was the first course/lecture I’ve been on since completing the LPC in May 2009.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:52:19 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Everyones-representing-murderers/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Codex - The usual freshers' fare</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[It has begun. Hundreds of new GDL students have descended onto BPP's Waterloo campus like a swarm of migratory butterflies – probably just as fragile, too, although only a few will have been as showy. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:10:11 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/The-usual-freshers-fare/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Costs and clients</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I have previously blogged about how I found certain differences between academic law as taught in law school and life in practice startling, and I am now going to discuss a further example of this.

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                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Costs-and-clients/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Work/life balance</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Achieving  the elusive work/life balance; a feat I'm not 100% sure I've managed yet.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Work-life-balance/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - The consultation room; sometimes more of a confessional box</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In the world of criminal law, you soon realise that anyone can run afoul of the law and get arrested.

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                  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:17:59 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/The-consultation-room-sometimes-more-of-a-confessional-box/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Get in the Ring</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Rumble in the Jungle. El Classico. Prost verses Senna. Now the greatest rivalry of all - The College of Law v BPP!]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:34:10 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Get-in-the-Ring/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - To prepare, or not to prepare...that is the question</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[In an enthusiastic attempt to get involved with as much as I can this year and brush up on my advocacy skills, I recently volunteered to take part in a training weekend.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Codex - Nothing like being prepared</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I had such ambitious plans...]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Codex/Nothing-like-being-prepared/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - Strong foundations</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Being that we are now three weeks into the LPC, I thought this might be the opportune moment to share my thoughts on how things are progressing.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:18:13 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/Strong-foundations/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - One small step for a BPTC student</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So the first week of the BPTC at Nottingham Law School is now over and done with, and, well, it’s my job as blogger to share the experience with you.


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                  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:22:32 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/One-small-step-for-a-BPTC-Student/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - Student survival guide</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I know in my first blog that I promised to confess all about freshers’ week and you’ve clearly all been lining up to see what I got up to, but unfortunately it is not until the first week of October so I thought I would write about that next time! ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:24:28 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/Student-Survival-Guide/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Hats off to clich&#233;d blog post titles</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I read with interest the recent Oracle answer which advised would-be trainee solicitors to wear suits to any interviews that they may have and went on to discuss the importance of professional appearance.

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                  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:57:23 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Hats-off-to-cliched-blog-post-titles/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - A law unto themselves</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Today has been a day of difficult clients. While I'm busy  at court on a 10-day combined finding-of-fact and final-care hearing, another  of my nightmare clients has had a one-day interim contested hearing in relation  to contact.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/A-law-unto-themselves/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Let's get it started</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So I've done my first week and a bit at the LPC and I'm ready to tell you a little bit about it. Over the next few blogs I'll discuss BPP v Col (the showdown!), as well as more practical stuff such as how to afford life in London - which, unless you have very generous and rich parents, is not easy as a student! ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Lets-Get-It-Started/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Plume - Pencil sharpeners at the ready...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Ever heard the phrase 'enough is as good as feast but too much is worse than none at all'?]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Plume/Pencil-sharpeners-at-the-ready/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - A trainee solicitor - in everything but name.</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As a paralegal, or, as we are now called, criminal caseworker, I have been lucky enough to have been treated as if I were a trainee solicitor at the firms I have worked at.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:35:31 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/A-trainee-solicitor-in-everything-but-name/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Lynn C Doyle - The improbable dream</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Wanting to be a lawyer is the equivalent of wanting to play football for England when you’re an eight-year-old boy. People will nod along indulgently for a while, but it’s only a matter of time before they try to talk you into doing an NVQ in furniture removal.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:25:22 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LynnCDoyle/The-Improbable-Dream/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Robin Hood - Here we go!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Right - first blog, here we go! As I said in my introduction, I have just finished a three-year LLB at the University of Chester.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:19:42 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RobinHood/Here-we-go/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Legally Blonde - The only way is law</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[“Oh sweetheart, you don’t need law school. Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. And you, button, are none of those things.”]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:22:24 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/LegallyBlonde/The-Only-Way-is-Law/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Clare's Law</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The Metro printed an article this week about a proposed bill, 'Clare's Law'. Along the same lines as the Sex Offenders Register, this would list all known perpetrators of domestic abuse.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:07:18 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Clares-Law/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - I still haven't found what I'm looking for</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’m due to start my LPC in a few weeks, but since I don’t really know anything yet, I thought I’d deal with a different element of student life in London - namely, flat hunting.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:46:49 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/I-Still-Havent-Found-What-Im-Looking-For/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Antisocial networking</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[The key to becoming an equity partner, they say, is not about being a good lawyer but being able to attract clients and generate business]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:36:02 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Antisocial-Networking/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - When judges let rip</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I was recently asked whether judges ever just absolutely let rip and tell clients exactly what they think of them.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:33:18 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/When-judges-let-rip/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - The great collapse</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[At times it can be difficult to avoid becoming depressed.

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                  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:45:39 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/The-Great-Collapse/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Patience is a virtue, seldom found in lawyers</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Whether at the office, court or police station, I always seem to be kept waiting, and there are only so many times that you can play solitaire on your Blackberry before you get bored.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:18:41 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Patience-is-a-virtue-seldom-found-in-lawyers/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - I predict a riot</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’ve got a flat viewing tomorrow. In Bethnal Green. Frankly, the timing could have been better…

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                  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/I-Predict-a-Riot/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - On call</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[My phone started ringing and vibrating uncontrollably, and was so loud that I was sure the whole apartment block could hear it. I immediately reacted with a groan, as I squinted at my alarm clock. It read 12:56am.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:51:10 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/On-call/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Everybody's talkin'</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[If you have an interview and you're not boning up on the scandal engulfing the News of the World (RIP), then you are a MASSIVE MUG.

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                  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Everybodys-Talkin/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - One day in the life of a trainee solicitor</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[What do trainees do all day? I’m sure that most of you will know by now that the work is vaguely glamorous and exceptionally well paid (you will have seen trainees rolling up to professional skills course lessons in their Porsches and Astons), but I don’t think that many prospective trainees will have a good grasp of how trainees actually fill their time.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:09:41 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/One-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-Trainee-Solicitor/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Itchy feet</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[After a number of recent conversations, I've noticed that a lot of us young lawyers seem to get very itchy feet pretty early on in our careers.
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                  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:26:39 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Back in the saddle</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I've just got back from a month-long eurotrip with mates, which might have been the most fun I've had ever.

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                  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Back-in-the-Saddle/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Two police officers, two paramedics and a PCSO</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[When I first decided to pursue a career in family law, I didn’t necessarily expect it to be glamorous...]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:21:46 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Two-Police-Officers-two-Paramedics-and-a-PCSO/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - Growing up</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[When I started my legal career back in August 2009, I had just come from completing the LPC and had no idea of how the real world actually worked. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:59:31 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/Growing-up/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Trial and tribulations</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I spent three days last week attending a final hearing at a district registry of the High Court. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:03:17 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Trial-and-Tribulations/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - A typical day (or not)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Friends who do not know much about my job, other than that I defend criminals(!), sometimes ask me what, for a lawyer, is a typical day?]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:03:54 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/A-Typical-Day-Or-Not/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - You know you're busy when...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[You forget who you are, what day it is or where you work.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/You-know-youre-busy-when/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - The referrer is...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[My original post for today described in detail the cold, fusion process that I had worked out over the weekend.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/The-Referrer-Is-/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Ain't Wasting Time No More</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I’ve just got back from a cheeky few days in Portugal (had a great time, thanks). ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:26:42 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Aint-Wasting-Time-No-More/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Dream Trainee?</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[One of my best friends has just returned from an absolutely amazing work placement in America, working for a huge firm with offices in Arizona and Seattle. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/Hummingbird/Dream-Trainee/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Ed White - Don't Speak</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A mate of mine (let's call him LM) recently appeared on Britain’s Got Talent.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:18:38 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/EdWhite/Dont-Speak/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Bundles of joy</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I write this blog post with eyes streaming blood, amid a pile of papers larger than a decent-sized cathedral.

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                  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/InTheEighthCircle/Bundles-of-joy/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - The Kangaroo Court</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Saturday 11th June 2011 at 11:15am, in some public house in Matthew Street, Liverpool, the Kangaroo Court reconvened after a number of years of silence.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:01:46 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/The-Kangaroo-Court/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>Rumpole Jnr - A brief introduction</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, and thanks for checking out my first post. Before I embark on a fly-on-the-wall type documentary of life in legal aid, here's a brief overview of my career so far.

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                  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:32:08 GMT</pubDate>
	              <link>http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Blog/RumpoleJnr/A-BRIEF-Introduction/?source=rss</link>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Drafting realities</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[When I started working at a real law firm, I noticed a distinct difference from how things worked in law school.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - Once bitten, twice shy.</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[All of the hoping (and shedloads of hard work!) has finally paid off and I've been given a date to start my training contract - November 2011. Over the moon as I am about this, I'm still that little bit wary that until the day it starts and we've signed on the dotted line, it could still all fall through. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 12:25:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Hummingbird - The dawn of fixed fees</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[With the introduction of the new fixed fee scheme this month, keeping our work financially viable looks set to be even more difficult. After having some training, I'm feeling fairly confident that I've got my head around how to jump through the latest set of hoops set by the LSC, but I'm also pretty sure that perfecting it may take a lot of practice! ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 14:20:19 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - The final countdown</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So finally the course ends, and all that is left is to spend the next three weeks cooped up inside revising like a demon before final exams. Seems like as good a time as any for some reflection, and to give you my final thoughts on the GDL.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:06:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>In the Eighth Circle - Lay down all hope, you that go in by me</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Greetings and salutations, and welcome to my blog. If you're reading this then you are interested in becoming a lawyer.
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                  <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:59:52 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Time is Running Out</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Sir Alex Ferguson refers to this period of the year as 'squeaky bum time'. He's obviously referring to the football season, but personally I think it's quite a good description of exam season as well. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 11:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Time to Pretend</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[What do David Attenborough, Jeremy Clarkson and Snoop Dogg have in common? Answer: they all have unbelievably sweet jobs.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Dont know what you got (til it's gone)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[My girlfriend is on her post-uni Gap Yah in South Americaaah, and has been gone for around three months now. As you can imagine, I’m feeling a bit…um…frisky. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:55:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Money for nothing</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[If you're a regular reader of this esteemed site, you'll know that most of the larger providers of the GDL and LPC are hiking up their fees again. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:56:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Chasing cars</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So the EU, in its infinite wisdom, has ruled that car insurers can no longer discriminate based on gender. All the women I've spoken to think this is terribly unfair and that the EU has missed the point. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:26:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Don’t. Ask. Me. No. Questions.</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[I'm going to apologise in advance for the somewhat scattergun nature of this blog, but I have been asked about interview questions by a couple of people and, with interview season fast approaching, thought it might be a good idea to spill the beans on the questions I was asked at my (various) interviews.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:44:59 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Street spirit</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[At the tail end of last year, there was a Facebook 'campaign' which involved changing your profile picture to a cartoon, ostensibly to fight child abuse. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Immigrant song</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As I read through some of the other (excellent) blogs on this site, I cannot help but feel a bit, well, lowbrow. A brief scan through these blogs will reveal discussion on morality and Charles Dickens. I blog about hangovers and sock-related mishaps. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - It's [not] all coming back to me now</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently went on a date with a girl; it went well and they ended up at her house together. Things started to get heated and my friend began to disrobe. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:05:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - School's out!</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[As I write this there is a throbbing pain above my left eye, which is for some reason how my hangover has chosen to manifest itself. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:24:52 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - The long and winding road (to a training contract) - part two</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Welcome to part two of Ed's crash course in TC application fun! This time I'll offer you a few tips on interviews. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - The long and winding road (to a training contract) - part one</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So I thought I'd do something a little bit different this blog and talk about training contracts, and what I did to get one.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:04:39 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - I would do anything for law (but I won’t do that)</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Would a blog ever be capable of changing your mind? If you've adopted a stance on an issue or decided to do something with your life, is it at all likely that a couple of hundred words written by a stranger - possibly with an agenda of his/her own - will make you rethink your position?]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - That's the way (uh-huh uh-huh) I like it</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[When you're considering a career in law, you've got a lot of options to think about. Do I become a solicitor or a barrister? What type of law do I find interesting? What type of firm would suit me? ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:21:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Life in the fast lane</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Well, having raced through my first few days at law school, I'm ready to tell you a little bit about the way the work's structured and my first impressions. And the first thing I'll say is simply this: stuff moves fast. ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - You ain't seen nothin' yet...</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[So I know last time I promised to tell you about my first day, but I thought the (compulsory for College of Law students) ‘Pre-course study in legal method’ was so fascinating that it warranted its own blog! ]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                  <title>Ed White - Welcome to the jungle</title>
                  <description><![CDATA[Hi! My name is Ed and I'll be blogging on life in general as a future lawyer studying the GDL - I promise now that it'll be warts 'n' all. All the good, interesting, engaging, revealing bits, and all the rubbish, boring, sleep-inducing bits that make you wonder why you bother.]]></description>
                  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:50:04 GMT</pubDate>
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