The Careers Team, Author at Legal Cheek

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Event: How technology is changing business — with Osborne Clarke

Lawyers discuss cross-industry disruption, students ask the questions — on Wednesday 24 October

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Successful lawyers are good at the basics

Apply the law and understand your client’s business and you will do well whatever changes technology brings, says RPC’s Dan Guilfoyle

Oct 10 2018 10:57am
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11 things law students need to know about legal design

Members from Norton Rose Fulbright’s innovation team share their insights on the hot commercial awareness topic of 2018

Oct 8 2018 3:21pm
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The life of a capital markets lawyer

White & Case’s Inigo Esteve tells us how he helps international companies list on the London Stock Exchange and shares his advice for students seeking to get into this branch of City law

Oct 1 2018 4:21pm
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The lawyer tasked with re-imagining Norton Rose Fulbright for the AI age

It all began when a partner asked David Carter to write a report on potential innovations to improve efficiency

Sep 20 2018 3:25pm
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Event: How to move in-house as a junior lawyer — with Axiom

Rising star lawyers at tech companies share their experiences

Sep 18 2018 8:59am

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‘Strangely my most memorable case was also in some respects my least enjoyable’

Hardwicke barristers Tom Bell and Emily Betts reflect on their journeys from fresh-faced pupils to rising stars of the bar

Sep 12 2018 2:25pm
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Event: The rise of Dublin as a global legal centre — with Pinsent Masons, Dechert, Matheson and Barbri

Legal Cheek is coming to Ireland

Sep 6 2018 12:07pm
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Event: Re-imagining global law firms through legal design — with Norton Rose Fulbright

Top lawyers share their thoughts on integrating lawtech, innovation hubs and more; students ask the questions

Aug 29 2018 4:27pm
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Student event: Artificial intelligence and the law — with Clifford Chance

Top City lawyers discuss the impact AI is having on the profession; students ask the questions

Aug 17 2018 10:58am
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Event: How to get into law as a career changer — with Irwin Mitchell, PwC and Shearman & Sterling

Hear from lawyers who’ve done it

Jul 15 2018 10:22am
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‘Technology won’t turn the world upside down overnight — but lawyers need to embrace the gradual change that is happening’

We spoke to Catherine Hammon, Digital Revolution Knowledge Lawyer at international legal practice Osborne Clarke

Jul 12 2018 2:50pm

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7 things students need to do when applying for training contracts

Legal Cheek Careers meets BPP University LPC lecturer Charlie Radcliffe

Jul 4 2018 1:57pm
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From trainee to partner, and what I’ve learnt along the way

Baker McKenzie corporate partner Kirsty Wilson on her legal career and the advice she’d give to those just starting theirs

Jul 3 2018 2:25pm
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The diary of a client secondee

Mayer Brown junior lawyer Emma Sturt has recently returned from a secondment at Citibank, having spent six months at Wells Fargo during her training contract

Jul 2 2018 2:57pm
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‘There’s no such thing as success without hard work — in any walk of life, not just law’

Curiosity, open-mindedness and the ability to work as part of a team are also key differentiating traits, says Hogan Lovells litigator Rebecca Wales

Jun 29 2018 1:02pm
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PwC looks beyond UCAS points for next generation of solicitors

Keily Blair and Kirsty O’Connor talk to Legal Cheek Careers about level playing fields

Jun 26 2018 2:57pm
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Event: How to get into media and sports law

With 5RB’s Christina Michalos, Howard Kennedy’s Mark Stephens, RPC’s Jeremy Drew, Wiggin’s Ross Sylvester and ULaw’s Peter Goodchild

Jun 25 2018 12:43pm

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Event: How to make it as a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown

Top lawyers join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students — for free — ahead of the training contract application deadline

Jun 19 2018 6:18pm
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Why specialise when you could do it all?

Being a generalist helps to develop your advocacy skills, argues Serjeants’ Inn’s Angus Moon QC

Jun 18 2018 3:10pm
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How I quit my job in Shanghai and landed my dream training contract

Burges Salmon trainee Ian Bond looks back on his route to a TC

Jun 15 2018 10:30am
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From South East London to Durham Uni and then the Bar and beyond

Legal Cheek Careers meets National Director of ULaw’s BPTC Jaqueline Cheltenham

Jun 13 2018 2:09pm
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Event: Secrets to Success Bristol — with Burges Salmon, RPC, St John’s Chambers and ULaw

Top lawyers share their secrets to success; students ask the questions

Jun 11 2018 1:01pm
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A senior associate’s notes from the frontline of the legal AI revolution

Pinsent Masons’ Jennifer McCormick tells Legal Cheek Careers how technology is revolutionising her practice area of banking and restructuring

Jun 5 2018 10:28am