Legal Cheek Careers

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

Ten minutes with Osborne Clarke’s digital revolution knowledge lawyer Catherine Hammon

Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain sat down with Catherine Hammon to discuss cross-industry disruption

Oct 22 2018 4:48pm

Event: How technology is changing business — with Osborne Clarke

Lawyers discuss cross-industry disruption, students ask the questions -- on Wednesday 24 October

Oct 20 2018 9:15am

Brexit is bringing new opportunities to Dublin, say top lawyers

Solicitors from global law firms Pinsent Masons, Dechert and Matheson join international bar qualification provider BARBRI to discuss the rise of Dublin as a legal centre

Oct 18 2018 2:41pm

How my time at the CMS Academy led straight to a training contract

Future CMS trainee Inshaal Ahmad shares his insight into the global firm's innovative internship programme

Oct 11 2018 3:22pm

Successful lawyers are good at the basics

Apply the law and understand your client’s business and you will do well whatever changes technology brings, says RPC's Dan Guilfoyle

Oct 10 2018 10:57am

11 things law students need to know about legal design

Members from Norton Rose Fulbright’s innovation team share their insights on the hot commercial awareness topic of 2018

Oct 8 2018 3:21pm
Pinsent Masons Marilyn Cooney

The changing fortunes of Dublin as a legal centre from the eyes of a lawyer who lived it

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘The rise of Dublin as a global legal centre’, Pinsent Masons senior associate Marilyn Cooney reflects on her career to date

Oct 2 2018 2:15pm

The life of a capital markets lawyer

White & Case’s Inigo Esteve tells us how he helps international companies list on the London Stock Exchange and shares his advice for students seeking to get into this branch of City law

Oct 1 2018 4:21pm

What we learnt from Shearman & Sterling’s ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’

Video series for law students demystifies key commercial awareness concepts -- and new season will run this autumn

Sep 26 2018 2:45pm
Quotas woman law firms

Why quotas are the only solution to gender equality in the workplace

Charlotte Proudman and Catherine Mayer persuade an audience of lawyers that the extreme option is the only way to boost the number of women in senior positions

Sep 25 2018 2:27pm

What does AI mean for the lawyer of the future?

250 students head to Clifford Chance’s Canary Wharf office to find out

Sep 24 2018 5:00pm
Norton Rose Fulbright lawyer

The lawyer tasked with re-imagining Norton Rose Fulbright for the AI age

It all began when a partner asked David Carter to write a report on potential innovations to improve efficiency

Sep 20 2018 3:25pm

Event: How to move in-house as a junior lawyer — with Axiom

Rising star lawyers at tech companies share their experiences

Sep 18 2018 8:59am
hardwicke barristers chambers

‘Strangely my most memorable case was also in some respects my least enjoyable’

Hardwicke barristers Tom Bell and Emily Betts reflect on their journeys from fresh-faced pupils to rising stars of the bar

Sep 12 2018 2:25pm

How two years as a county court advocate helped me secure pupillage

Luke Blease appeared in more than 70 courtrooms across the country, including before High Court judges in the Royal Courts of Justice

Sep 3 2018 1:53pm

Event: Re-imagining global law firms through legal design — with Norton Rose Fulbright

Top lawyers share their thoughts on integrating lawtech, innovation hubs and more; students ask the questions

Aug 29 2018 4:27pm

Life as a Clifford Chance lawyer on the tech frontline — and how you can become one too

A sneak preview of the hints and tips magic circle associate Jamie Andrew will share at Legal Cheek’s ‘Artificial intelligence and the law’ event next month

Aug 22 2018 2:04pm

Student event: Artificial intelligence and the law — with Clifford Chance

Top City lawyers discuss the impact AI is having on the profession; students ask the questions

Aug 17 2018 10:58am

This is how you get a training contract as a career changer

Top lawyers from Irwin Mitchell, PwC and Shearman & Sterling share their routes into the profession

Aug 10 2018 1:06pm