Author: Lydia Fontes
Is soaring NQ pay impacting trainee retention rates?
The Legal Cheek team discuss NQ salaries, retention rates, financial results and a petition to reform the SQE — listen now 🎙️
Withers retains 9 of 14 qualifying trainees
64% score with two rookies opting out of NQ process
Mastering the SQE with a full-time job: Top tips from a future lawyer
Tilly Twite, SQE student at The College of Legal Practice, reflects on her experience of balancing work and study and offers some advice for fellow future lawyers
How to keep it together during the SQE
BPP LLM student Maria Shakir discusses the highs and lows of her SQE experience as well as her key revision strategies and top tips for success
Senior paralegal rebuked over DWF million-pound payment error
Supervising partner fined last month
Young barrister reprimanded over bar bottle incident
Pleaded guilty to assault
Top retired judge proposes reducing jury trials to prevent justice system collapse
Your criminal law module could soon be out of date
HFW bumps NQ solicitor pay to £103.5k
3.5% rise sees firm join summer salary scramble
My journey from chartered legal exec to law firm partner
CILEX president Yanthé Richardson discusses her varied career, diversity in the law and the introduction of chartered paralegals
How to survive the SQE — and why regional firms could be your best career move
Programme and student lead at ULaw, Laura Duffy, discusses the challenges facing lawyers-to-be and the opportunities in the North
SQE tips from a future trainee solicitor
Alex Goodman, future trainee and ULaw student ambassador, discusses his SQE experience, from revision strategies to social life
Personal injury solicitor struck off for diverting client damages to wife-linked rehab business
Faked invoices and correspondence
‘We rather like hanging around law libraries’: Top judges reveal their attitudes towards AI
Human input remains crucial
‘Godfather of AI’ thinks tech won’t hurt plumbers — but could spell trouble for paralegals
Intellectual labour at risk of replacement says Geoffrey Hinton
Law grad who completed TC barred after working as solicitor without roll admission
Worked unqualified for three weeks
The biggest challenge of the SQE – and how to overcome it
Hannah Uglow, SQE & LPC programme and student lead at ULaw, discusses the best and worst things about the exams and shares her top tips on how to tackle them
My SQE1 experience – and advice for those preparing to sit it
BPP student ambassador Sarina Yamahata reflects on the SQE study strategy that helped her secure a successful result
