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Event: Infrastructure, the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon

Commercial Awareness Question Time is coming to Bristol

13 hours ago

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The lawyer who works from his garden on some of the best-known cases in Britain

Leading media lawyer Jonathan Coad on his switch from Lewis Silkin equity partner to Keystone Law consultant

Sep 12 2017 2:05pm

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Event: Bitcoin, blockchain & smart contracts — and the next generation of lawyers

Norton Rose Fulbright fintech lawyers share their experiences from the tech frontiers

Sep 8 2017 3:51pm

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How to approach university Clearing

You can have a stress-free results day, says The University of Law’s Director of Admissions

Aug 16 2017 10:00am

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How to make the most of your London law degree

City, University of London law student Christianah Babajide on the advantages of studying in the capital

Jul 26 2017 11:50am

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8 tangible benefits that technology is bringing to law firms

Ahead of Pinsent Masons’ training contract application deadline on Friday, five lawyers and technologists at the famously tech-savvy firm consider how innovation is helping them

Jul 24 2017 3:41pm

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Four key moments from ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’

Last minute TC application gold

Jul 21 2017 2:40pm

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What you don’t learn watching Suits

A Macfarlanes NQ, associate and partner discuss what they do on a deal

Jul 18 2017 10:37am

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Where will corporate law firms be ten years from now?

Pinsent Masons partner Richard Masters draws on 30 years of practice to forecast what comes next

Jul 10 2017 10:08am

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From student to solicitor: The most important things that you learn during your training contract

‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’

Jul 5 2017 2:11pm

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An engineering graduate’s journey into law

Ahead of ‘How to make it as a City Lawyer’, Mayer Brown associate Emma Sturt considers the skills that science students bring to the legal profession

Jun 26 2017 3:14pm

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Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation

Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who “pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to” helped put him on the right track

Jun 23 2017 12:05pm

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Birmingham student event: Lawyers and the fourth industrial revolution — with Pinsent Masons

How AI and Big Data will change legal practice

Jun 19 2017 2:23pm

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Why lawyers need to be good listeners

Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes’ deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice

Jun 16 2017 11:44am

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Event: How to make it as a City lawyer

Solicitors from Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students — for free — ahead of the training contract application deadline

Jun 15 2017 10:51am

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How the Norton Rose Fulbright energy law LLM scholarship is helping to take a young lawyer’s career to the next level

Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute

Jun 5 2017 12:44pm

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Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time — Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe, with Macfarlanes

The lawyers who handled one of the biggest M&A deals of last year share their experiences with 50 students

May 30 2017 4:50pm

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I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my training contract in London later this year

Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work

May 15 2017 1:35pm

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Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong Kong and Australia offices

Watch Laura Kendrick’s video — and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists — below

May 11 2017 11:31am

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Event: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate

Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences

May 9 2017 12:51pm

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A law firm survival guide for millennials

How young lawyers can overcome the negative stereotypes associated with their generation

Apr 5 2017 4:37pm

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The best things about representing a law firm on campus

Brian Ramamoorthy on what he has learned from being Norton Rose Fulbright’s university manager at King’s College London

Apr 3 2017 2:57pm

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Do expect big things from lawtech, don’t learn to code

Lawyers from RPC and Hardwicke consider the future of litigation

Mar 30 2017 11:57am

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Interview: 2010 non-law grads who worked in the City after graduating explain why they are becoming lawyers

Duo will begin training contracts at Shearman & Sterling next year

Mar 27 2017 1:21pm

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Five things we learnt from ‘How to become a serious injury lawyer’

Panel of serious injury and medical negligence solicitors and barristers shares its pearls of wisdom

Mar 8 2017 4:04pm

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Four things we learnt at our Northern Powerhouse careers discussion

Reflections from Legal Cheek’s recent event in Newcastle with Bond Dickinson

Mar 1 2017 11:48am

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The life of a serious crime QC

From representing footballer John Terry to acting in the Hillsborough Inquests and the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, there are few dull moments for Serjeants’ Inn’s Chris Daw QC