Legal Cheek Careers
The latest careers content in one place, plus events, key deadlines, campus ambassador programme details and the Legal Cheek Most Lists.
Lawtech is a means to an end — it’s not about having ‘a new shiny toy’
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Nick Pryor gives his insight into the past, present and future of legal technology
Five pupillage application form essentials
As the Pupillage Gateway re-opens, Devereux's Harry Sheehan and John Platts-Mills share five ideas to hopefully reinvigorate the process of applying for pupillage and crafting applications
A partner and a trainee explain why they decided to become corporate lawyers
Shearman & Sterling's New York and London offices brought to life in short clip
How being a trainee is different (and not so different) to the way I imagined it at university
RPC trainee solicitor Joseph Akwaboa reveals his journey from theory to practice -- with a few goals on the football pitch along the way
Life in a global law firm through the eyes of a trainee
Ahead of Norton Rose Fulbright’s 13 January Spring Vacation Scheme deadline, Legal Cheek Careers caught up with Dominica Cole, a former vac schemer and current trainee at the firm
Why Brexit, technology and agile working are some of the ingredients shaking up City law
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘How law firms adapt to change’ event with Travers Smith next week, finance partner Danny Peel explains how the City law firm is responding to change
How to nail a vac scheme application
A Burges Salmon trainee shares her top tips
How to become an intellectual property lawyer
One Pinsent Masons partner shares his insights
What I learned in my week at a global law firm
Ahead of the 6 January application deadline for Clyde & Co’s vacation scheme, Legal Cheek Careers spoke with Eleanor Hassall, fresh from her time on the firm's Bright Futures Programme.
12 tips on how to secure pupillage
Five barristers came together at a recent Legal Cheek event to share their career insights
Behind the scenes at a tech-focused City law firm
Lawyers and innovation specialists discuss Taylor Wessing tech
How success often follows rejection
Four successful lawyers reflect on the opportunities presented by setbacks
Looking up: How the North is becoming an international legal powerhouse
CMS lawyers deliver commercial awareness and careers advice insights
What will law firms look like 10 years from now?
Four City lawyers answer the classic interview question
5 things we learned about lawtech at Addleshaw Goddard
Legal technology leaders lay down some home truths
A legal education expert shares her top 5 predictions for the new solicitor super-exam
What happens after the LPC is scrapped?
My most memorable pro bono case
Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers share their stories
I landed a pupillage when I stopped trying to look and talk like a barrister
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘How to make it as a barrister’ event in London tomorrow, ULaw future pupil programme coordinator Joseph O’Leary shares his top tips
Reflections of a former paralegal
Irwin Mitchell corporate lawyer Matt Smith had to show grit to secure a TC
I’m a half-lawyer half-tech expert — here’s my story
Michael Kennedy reveals how developing lawtech skills helped him to transition from paralegal to trainee solicitor