Category: Comment
Young Legal Aid Lawyers: We cannot argue working in legal aid isn’t difficult, but don’t quit
Group issues rallying cry to students, in a response to an article by Legal Cheek’s Katie King
Law students are virtually barred from pursuing a career in legal aid anymore, unless they’re rich
74% say they’ve been put off the sector, I was one of them
Why lawyers need to loosen the ‘stiff upper lip’
Macho demonstrations of 'resilience' are overrated
A reply to top lawyer David Greene, from the Cambridge students he called ‘arrogant’
Techy students defend their lawbot
How City law prepares you for the *joys* of motherhood
One associate can't help but see comparisons between her crying newborn baby and her demanding clients
The Oxford University gown debate, from a law student’s perspective
Is wearing different gowns depending on your grades morally wrong?
Brexit and the online world
On the anniversary of the historic Brexit vote, David Allen Green reflects on how social media has influenced the past year
‘Social mobility initiatives are targeting the wrong people: I would know — I was one of them’
Legal Cheek’s Katie King explains why they must be more selective
The reality of taking the CILEx route: ‘I work just as hard as a solicitor for less money and less respect’
An anonymous trainee legal exec thinks attitudes to the apprenticeship need to change
Why junior lawyers shouldn’t be afraid of AI, by a law student
We shouldn't waste the abundance of opportunities out there
The problem with low cost legal hubs is that law graduates don’t want to work in them
Students say ‘no thanks’ to northshoring
The true state of the BPTC, from someone who has recently gone through it
A Legal Cheek commenter shares their story
A good day at work? Not likely if you’re a lawyer
It's not just Trump and Brexit which are getting us down
Brexit’s Great Repeal Bill is a never-attempted ‘massive problem’: is Oxbridge prof stating the obvious to Lords’ committee?
There was also a lot of talk about Henry VIII clauses and Acquis Communautaire
Beware the bursting of law’s artificial intelligence bubble
Legal tech is a long story of incremental change, not revolution
The wretched Watson Glaser test and why I think it should be scrapped
Why do grad recruiters still use the 85-year-old test?
Why KWM’s demise isn’t the end of the world for its future trainees-to-no-longer-be
So law isn’t the safe career you thought
In defence of the solicitor super-exam… an NQ’s perspective
The SQE will stop the LPC gamble
Taking the fear out of being different at the bar
Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC on why she’s backing FreeBar, a new bar-wide LGBT+ initiative