Tag: Students

From airports in Croatia to railways in South Africa: the varied career of a global infrastructure lawyer

Pinsent Masons partner Sonal Shah contemplates her career journey to date and comments on how the infrastructure sector has fared throughout Covid-19

Oct 26 2021 12:07pm

Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’

TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones

Oct 26 2021 10:54am

Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead

BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it

Oct 25 2021 9:17am

Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom

Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock

Oct 22 2021 12:55pm

BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship

What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?

Oct 22 2021 12:28pm

Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments

Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'

Oct 22 2021 8:42am

Why litigation is a game of chess

DWF senior associate Paul Maddock explains how his passion for board games helps in his day-to-day legal life

Oct 21 2021 11:33am

‘The hurdles I overcame on my path to partnership’

Squire Patton Boggs partner Michelle Adams didn’t get the A-Level grades she’d hoped for and started training at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis; here she talks to Legal Cheek Careers about navigating choppy waters to get to where she is today

Oct 20 2021 11:42am

‘Own your experience as a law career changer’

Mayer Brown trainee Cheryl Stevart discusses her career journey from publishing to corporate law, ahead of her appearance at this week's virtual student event

Oct 19 2021 12:21pm

Ex-Eversheds trainee who sexually assaulted two sleeping students at house party jailed for 8 years

Attacked law student before groping another woman while she slept

Oct 18 2021 12:41pm
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Osborne Clarke picks BPP to prepare future trainees for SQE

First cohort starts September 2024

Oct 18 2021 8:55am

Fad or future? Elite law firms target tech-savvy students for non-law roles

A new wave of TC alternatives is sweeping the City

Oct 15 2021 9:19am

Why being a global finance lawyer is the next best thing to being a rockstar

Ashurst partner Navdeep Benning discusses her career journey to date

Oct 14 2021 2:34pm

Viral TikTok of law student who continued moot comp despite passing out prompts debate over profession’s focus on resilience

Commenters warn of the dangers of 'glamourising' work ethic at the cost of health

Oct 14 2021 1:34pm
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College of Legal Practice strikes SQE training deal with Solent Law School

Tie-up will see super-exam prep offered as optional LLB module

Oct 13 2021 9:12am

Dublin’s legal scene through the eyes of two junior lawyers

McCann FitzGerald associates Olivia Wright and Darragh Caldwell offer their top application tips while reflecting on their own career journeys so far, ahead of the firm’s appearance at next week's Legal Cheek Irish Virtual Law Fair 2021

Oct 12 2021 10:43am

5 reasons school leavers should consider a solicitor apprenticeship

Current apprentice Jessica Lee debunks some common misconceptions

Oct 12 2021 9:28am

Paul Hastings launches year-long legal innovation internship

Tie-up with Queen Mary University

Oct 11 2021 2:54pm

County Court advocate is a ‘worker’, says employment tribunal

Ruling could give rights to hundreds of law grads working as unqualified advocates

Oct 11 2021 10:53am

My work as a lawyer in the renewable energy sector

Burges Salmon senior associate Peter Ramsden shares an overview of his career journey and the challenges he faced along the way

Oct 8 2021 11:35am