Practice Toolset

Barristers, it’s time to consider how we meld tried and trusted tradition with lawtech innovation. The future volume of work, and the legal market’s willingness to pay for it, could be in the balance, writes Anna Simmonds 

Are barristers primed and ready to rethink, reshape and future-proof their practice? Might technology be part of the answer, especially when time is already stretched? These questions were examined in A Brave New Bar , a state-of-play report based on research conducted by LexisNexis 

Why you should join a Circuit: a far cry from dinners eaten and fines levied, it’s good fellowship, lifelong education and representation in matters that affect you  

By Kate Brunner QC  

Inequitable briefing, power play, a culture of fear... age-old problems that can have a devastating impact on retention rates. The Association of Women Barristers sets out six measures to maintain the gender balance and enable staying for silk  

By Lynne Townley and Nikki Alderson  

Following a five-year review, three consultations and concerted efforts to make it more evenly distributed, the new age of education begins in autumn 2020 – Catherine Baksi's  guide to the regime and its providers

Happy #IWD2020 #EachforEqual! Five sisters in law – barristers Lousia Collins, Rebecca Hill, Gemma Rose, Alexandra Wilson and Alexa Le Moine of 5SAH – share their views on life and work at the Bar, keeping/retrieving the faith, and the strength and support of a united and collective voice  

The plumage and ceremony delights some and appals others, yet its professional significance is inescapable; Chris Henley QC (successful in round three) riffs on the award and how to get it 

A rough guide for pupils on the more informal rules and idiosyncratic mannerisms of the Bar: the legal Twitter hive mind sifts the daft and defunct from the customs that really matter, distilled by Lucy Reed  

What was it like working as a junior junior on the controversial prorogation case—and will any case be the same again? A pupil’s account of the historic day

If there’s one thing that defines what the new Chair of the Bar wants to achieve, it’s removing barriers. Amanda Pinto QC talks to Kate Brunner QC about access to the profession, equitable briefing and why the profile of senior Bar politics has to change