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Exam proctoring: a law student’s experience

As law schools shift exams online in the wake of the coronavirus, one aspiring lawyer reveals her first encounter was ‘mostly positive’

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‘I had no assurances that being gay in law was okay’: LGBTQ+ students on life after coming out

Co-founders of ‘Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow’ Olivia Reily and Owen Hussey on the challenges they faced and why they set-up their new diversity platform

Jun 26 2020 12:12pm
New legal aid rules threaten access to justice for asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, young lawyers warn

Young Legal Aid Lawyers urge Legal Cheek readers to back motion to block regulations

Jun 15 2020 9:22am
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BSB: A response to BPTC students’ exam concerns

We will seek to ensure online assessment arrangements are fair for all, writes BSB director of regulatory operations Oliver Hanmer

Jun 3 2020 10:10am
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Bar regulator’s COVID-19 exam proposals could prejudice female students

Former BPTC student and future barrister Sarah Ismail considers why

May 29 2020 9:10am
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Falling through the cracks of the furlough scheme — a NQ lawyer’s perspective

‘I feel I have effectively been forced out of the profession’, a junior family solicitor writes

May 28 2020 9:18am
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An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts

They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees’ futures

May 15 2020 9:48am
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Will success of home-working prompt firms to rethink their plush City offices?

Pandemic puts question mark over corporate law’s love-affair with swanky spaces

Apr 27 2020 12:50pm
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Why a shift towards booze free law events is a positive for the profession

Husnara Begum reflects on life as a teetotalling magic circle trainee in the nineties

Apr 15 2020 9:15am
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Don’t launch solicitor super-exam during a global pandemic

Durham Uni Law School chief urges regulator to postpone SQE

Apr 7 2020 10:43am
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‘Get on with it — uncertainty costs’, SQE co-creator tells regulators at LegalEdCon North

Crispin Passmore warns against super-exam delay

Feb 6 2020 12:02pm
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How the SQE shifts power from law firms to students

‘No longer can a law firm dangle a training contract in front of paralegals or insist that getting a job in a firm’s onshore centre is not a route to qualifying’

Jan 17 2020 9:02am
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What Boris Johnson’s big majority means for the legal profession and those seeking to enter it

Focus on innovation, the North and alternatives to higher education could impact lawyers

Dec 17 2019 11:22am
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Richard Susskind: My case for online courts

Profession’s foremost technology expert offers up his digital vision of the future, in exclusive article for Legal Cheek

Dec 17 2019 8:46am
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Legal sector’s ‘perfect storm’ moment could blow in new way of training lawyers

NewLaw needs new thinking on legal education, argues Nigel Savage

Nov 28 2019 2:15pm
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Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’

The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC

Nov 19 2019 9:13am
Law firms are run by ‘dinosaurs’ looking to exploit ‘desperate’ grads

‘I cannot wait to qualify and change professions’, says anonymous rookie solicitor Dejected Trainee

Aug 15 2019 8:55am
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I bought a Gucci handbag and pretended to like rugby in a bid to fit in with my magic circle peers

Career success shouldn’t come at the sacrifice of being yourself, says City lawyer turned career coach Husnara Begum

Jul 30 2019 8:57am
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Law and politics: Is the romance finally over?

Fewer MPs have a background in law

Jul 29 2019 9:12am
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Complacent law schools are ripe for disruption

New Guardian rankings expose universities’ vulnerabilities, argues expert

Jun 11 2019 10:07am
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My homeschooling won’t make me any less of a lawyer

An ‘unorthodox education’ can make it more difficult to secure a training contract, says law undergrad Keir Throssell

May 22 2019 8:16am
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