Author: adam-mawardi
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent — and then quit to start his own media law firm
Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business
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Jet flop! Law grad fired from The Apprentice after disastrous airline advertising task
Kurran Poon becomes the sixth candidate to leave the boardroom empty handed
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Meet the vlogging future magic circle trainee who has racked up nearly 3 million views on YouTube
Bristol University law grad is closing in on 100,000 subscribers
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The Apprentice: Lord Sugar tells law grad he ‘bottled it’ after backing out of project manager role
Kurran Pooni narrowly escapes firing
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How I used my lawyer skills to start my own consultancy firm
Media specialist Nicola Hartley shares her journey and the things she learnt along the way
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Future lawyers need role models to show them it’s possible
Black History Month: Ademola Bamgbose on his journey from Lagos to London -- and a training contract at Hogan Lovells
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How I became a lawyer who advises self-driving car start-ups and other innovative companies
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest student commercial awareness event, with Burges Salmon in Bristol next week, we spoke to projects and transport lawyer Ed Barratt
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The Apprentice: Law grad gets off to a shaky start after breaking arm wrestling another contestant
Just a week after the former ULaw LLBer forgot a candidate’s name during a business pitch
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Legal Entrepreneurs: How I started my own reputation law firm
Media lawyer Matt Himsworth opens up about the freedom running your own business can bring
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5 things that will inevitably happen to you during your first year of law school
From caffeine addiction to the horrors of R v Brown
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High Court judges could see salaries swell by over 30% to £240,000 under new proposals
Will extra cash help improve judicial morale?
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Gay cake judgment: Human rights barrister explains what you need to know about today’s big decision
Bakery's refusal to make same-sex marriage cake is NOT discriminatory, rules Supreme Court
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What we learnt from Shearman & Sterling’s ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’
Video series for law students demystifies key commercial awareness concepts -- and new season will run this autumn
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Mark Wahlberg’s routine: the law student version
9:30am -- miss land law lecture
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7 things career changers can do to secure a training contract
ULaw careers consultant Candy Kobrak discusses transferable skills and application technique
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Eversheds Sutherland signs deal with Slaughter and May-backed artificial intelligence software
Luminance was developed by Cambridge boffins
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Chambers ‘Law Camp’ gives sixth-formers a taste of life at the bar
Students from underrepresented backgrounds assigned barrister mentors as part of myth-busting two-day workshop
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Social media is everywhere — but the law governing it remains a speciality form of practice: Here’s how to get into it
ULaw associate professor Peter Goodchild looks back on a career that began as an IP and IT lawyer in the City
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Facebook acquires Allen & Overy tech hub company for £26 million to help fight fake news
Artificial intelligence specialist was founded three years ago