The Legal Cheek Summer Virtual Vacation Scheme and Law Fair 2024, run in partnership with The University of Law (ULaw), takes place from Monday 10 June until Friday 14 June (with the Virtual Law Fair taking place 2-4pm on Wednesday 12 June).
It features a series of short talks, workshops and Q&As with lawyers from leading law firms, corresponding written exercises set by ULaw, as well as an employability expo and a virtual law fair featuring almost 30 firms.
• The University of Law
Workshop
• Jones Day
Workshop
• Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Kristjana Nikolls, associate, and Emilia Demetriades, trainee solicitor)
Workshop
• BCLP (Kevin Atkins, partner, and Hansy Shore, associate)
Expo
• The University of Law
Workshop
• Foot Anstey
Lawyers, trainees and graduate recruitment teams from Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, BCLP, Burges Salmon, Clyde & Co, Cripps, Dentons, Eversheds Sutherland, Fletchers Solicitors, Flex Legal, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell, Jones Day, Kingsley Napley, Mayer Brown, Mills & Reeve, Norton Rose Fulbright, Pinsent Masons, Slaughter and May, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Weil Gotshal & Manges, White & Case, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Womble Bond Dickinson
Presentation
• Robert Hunter, former Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith Freehills partner, and founder and trustee at City Disabilities
Workshop
• Legal Cheek (Alex Aldridge, founder and publisher)
• The University of Law
Workshop
• Accutrainee (Elizabeth Hutchinson, trainee solicitor)
Presentation
• Lawstop (Josie Hicklin, solicitor)
All sessions take place virtually via our online events platform. Some are view-only with students able to interact via the chat; in others students are encouraged to interact by sharing their audio and video.
Case study exercises are set by ULaw, with model answers supplied at the end of the Scheme.
You are encouraged to attend all sessions but we appreciate you may have some other commitments to balance. Students who attend all of the sessions receive a certificate at the end of the Scheme.
