Mania, paranoia, egotism, neurosis; you will probably see it all as you navigate your way through a stress-filled legal career. Hell, you migh even suffer one or two of these afflictions yourself at some point. When it gets really bad it’s probably time to take a holiday. And by that we mean before you start suffering from all of them at the same time and not taking a leave of your senses. The existence of the Priory, Prozac etc …

The perma-tanned couple have apparently agreed to a quick divorce as hostilities have escalated in the tabloid press. Lawyers have been appointed on both sides with Jordan instructing celebrity favorite Fiona Shackleton of Payne Hicks Beach and Peter Andre appointing Stephen Foster of litigation boutique Stewarts Law . Andre is believed to have signed a pre-nuptial agreement, waiving his rights to the glamour model’s fortune, but legal commentators have suggested that he could challenge the agreement because the couple …

It’s not every day someone gets had up by the tax man for losing their virginity but…

German inland revenue investigators are looking to claim 50% of the money that a teenage student earned for ‘auctioning’ her virginity online because they claim it was "tantamount to prostitution."

Romanian-born 18 year old Alina Percea, who is a student in Germany, was paid £8,800 [$13,827] in cash for a weekend of sex with an Italian businessman after she auctioned her virginity on the …

The classified ads we’ve posted by lawyers with quite ‘particular’ requirements have proved pretty popular by all accounts. Given the distance most would have to travel, we suspect that is more down to the rather outlandish nature of the ads rather than an interest in following them up (we pass no judgement of course). Turns out that Craigslist (for those not familiar it’s America’s most popular on-line classifieds site) has been getting into a a fair bit of hot …

We naively thought that most lawyers were fairly conservative types, the sort of folk who go on dates arranged through friends, or maybe even a bit of speed dating if one was really daring. However, we’ve had a couple of classified ads pop up on the radar recently that have altered our perception somewhat. The first was a lawyer that needed love , sort of; well that was our slightly innocent take on this advert: "Hot rich lawyer looking …

Deidre Dare ex-senior associate from Allen & Overy’s Moscow office is suing her former firm…

Some of you may have seen last week’s rather forthright Craigslist advert posted by a lawyer seeking a particular vein of companionship, "Hot rich lawyer looking for gold digging femal – 28 (NYC)." If you thought that one was a little uncompromising in its demands, cast your eye over this:

Lawyer seeks Hot Tub Companion (SF)
Reply to: gigs-89urj-1105838670@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads? ]
Date: 2009-04-03, 2:26PM PDT
Attractive, nice and fun 30-something lawyer seeks young, attractive companionship for an hour at …

For those of you not familiar with Craigslist , it is America’s most popular on-line classifieds site. The site is huge and advertises virtually everything from jobs to housing. Despite operating with a staff of only 28 people from a house in San Francisco, it is estimated to turnover somewhere near the $80-$100m mark. All very exciting you might think. What the site apparently also attracts a lot of are prostitutes so called erotic ads and lonely-hearts ads. This …

Unfortuntely for Allen & Overy, their dismissed former associate, Deidre Dare, is not disappearing quietly. Following an article in The Times , and reports that she intends to take action in The Lawyer , she has now been interviewed by the Bitter Lawyer . It seems the project finance lawyer is happy to have exchanged drafting loan agreements for the rather more glamourous world of being a ‘celebrity columnist’ in Moscow. As she puts it:

"My life has changed so …

Final reminder in support of Eleanor Mhizha’s charitable fundraiser at Alibi, Shoe Lane 7.30pm – 10pm.

Greetings to all of you at Solicitr

I am currently a paralegal at Ashurst and I am due to start training at Nabarro in September. As this summer will be my last chance to travel for a long time, I have decided to do some voluntary work in Tanzania. I have found the perfect project through Hostel Hoff, an organisation which focuses on independent …

Some of you will remember last week’s post promoting this night in support of Eleanor Mhizha’s charitable fundraiser . If you did not see it the first time or you needed a reminder, see below. Also, we have received some revised ticket information from Eleanor for those of you who did not wish to register with the ticket sellers. The revised details can be found in bold at the end of this post but the new link is:

www.cocktailmixingsinglesparty.wordpress.com …

Here at Solicitr we are always happy to support a good cause and recently received the following request:

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Greetings to all of you at Solicitr

I am currently a paralegal at Ashurst and I am due to start training at Nabarro in September. As this summer will be my last chance to travel for a long time, I have decided to do some voluntary work in Tanzania. I have found the perfect project through Hostel Hoff, an organisation which focuses on …

Following the episode involving Deidre Dare of Allen & Overy whose sex diary, ahem online novel sorry, received stern disapproval from her bosses; it seems sex can still provokes a certain amount of bother amongst the lawyering classes. It is not for us to pass judgement on Ms Dare; we consider the episode as more entertaining in nature than offensive even if, for her professionally, it may have been a little unwise. However, comments from some readers (we presume they …

Guy Ritchie seems to have ended up with a fairly hefty payout from Madonna following their divorce. The sum is thought to be in the region of £50m even though the split was "never about money". As the pop star’s US spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg so deftly put it, "I’d assume it’s one of the largest payouts ever in a divorce." Probably.

And talking of large sums and court proceedings, in an unusual move, a High Court judge has ordered Allen …

An Arkansas man on Friday filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s, alleging a restaurant location uploaded nude photos of his wife onto a web site. Philip Sherman says he was promised by staff at the burger restaurant in Fayette, Arkansas, that the handset would be turned off and securely stored until he could retrieve it.

In the suit, Phillip Sherman said he left his phone at a McDonald’s location in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and that a manager promised the …

We don’t know if the end of the world as we know it is producing a spate of sould searching from lonely lawyers, from the ‘demanding ‘ to the ‘dazzling ‘ see our previous ad posts, but here is another, more subtle offering from a recent Craiglist posting:

Perfect on Paper – 24

Here’s the thing, it’s easy for people to lie about themselves, or even tell the truth but spin it. Given that, I can make myself …