Legal Cheek Careers

The latest careers content in one place, plus events, key deadlines, campus ambassador programme details and the Legal Cheek Most Lists.

Technology tech trainee solicitor

How tech is changing the way trainees work

Four lawyers cut through the hype at our latest student event in Reading

Jun 25 2019 1:35pm

A day in the life of a corporate lawyer

Solicitors from Gowling WLG, Pinsent Masons and DWF tell us what their jobs are really like

Jun 20 2019 2:03pm

The diary of an employment lawyer

Legal Cheek Careers meets employment solicitor-turned ULaw Bloomsbury campus dean, Sandie Gaines, to discuss her career journey to date and application tips for summer training contract success

Jun 19 2019 2:53pm

6 essentials for summer training contract hunters

What we learned from an hour listening to five top lawyers

Jun 13 2019 2:13pm

Midlands to the Middle East: What I learned during my international secondment

Pinsent Masons associate Ian Morgan reflects on his time in Dubai and Doha

Jun 11 2019 1:18pm

How lawtech looked in the 90s

ULaw campus dean Sarah Pooley reveals how innovation has long been a feature of legal practice and what it now means for future lawyers

Jun 10 2019 3:29pm

Event: Secrets to Success Birmingham — with Pinsent Masons, Gowling WLG, DWF and ULaw

This Tuesday evening in Birmingham; open to all students

Jun 9 2019 1:13pm

Top 4 entries for ‘My US Legal Icon’ Vlogging Prize

Contenders compete for return flight to New York in 60-second vlog off

Jun 7 2019 12:06pm

Life as a junior lawyer during the financial crash

ULaw campus dean, Matthew Tomlinson, reveals why Leeds is on the up-and-up ahead of tomorrow’s ‘Secrets to Success’ event in the northern city

Jun 3 2019 1:38pm

Career changers: 6 things you need to know before making the switch to law

Lawyers share their routes into the profession -- and what they learned along the way

May 30 2019 3:39pm

Telling lawyers to ‘toughen up’ isn’t the answer

PJ Kirby QC, joint head of Hardwicke, speaks to Legal Cheek ahead of his appearance this afternoon at The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019

May 22 2019 12:07pm

What it’s like to lead one of the UK’s first teaching law firms

Laura Pinkney, head of Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre, chats to Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain

May 21 2019 11:05am

Why leaping into law as a career changer takes confidence

ULaw’s John Watkins talks transferrable skills and reveals how career changers can show risk-averse employers that they’re a safe option

May 17 2019 1:16pm

‘Tech doesn’t respect boundaries — it is universal and affects how we run all our practice areas’

Legal Cheek Careers chats to Clifford Chance partner and co-head of the technology practice, Jonathan Kewley, about the firm’s new lawtech training contract

May 16 2019 11:42am

‘We have an obligation to make entry to the bar as fair as possible’

Cornerstones Barristers’ Andrew Lane reflects on his career to date and how barrister training should evolve to adequately prepare the next generation of advocates

May 13 2019 2:50pm

The role of diverse skills in the ‘radically different’ legal services of the future

LexisNexis director, Dani McCormick, talks about her path from a career in advertising to law to legal tech, and how different law might be in the future

May 9 2019 3:40pm