Legal Cheek Careers

‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City lawyer' on Thursday, Herbert Smith Freehills associate Siddhartha Shukla discusses the key skills he has learnt in his career to date

Ahead of How to make it as a City Lawyer, BPP lecturer and former City lawyer Charlie Radcliffe talks training contracts and showing your 'human side'

Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Garry Clement -- who has seen it all -- is consistently impressed by the qualities that those from a legal background bring to his specialism of financial crime

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City Lawyer', Mayer Brown associate Emma Sturt considers the skills that science students bring to the legal profession

Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who "pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to" helped put him on the right track

As Ashurst's training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date

How AI and Big Data will change legal practice

Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes' deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice

Solicitors from Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students -- for free -- ahead of the training contract application deadline

Reed Smith trainee Roch Glowacki reflects on what he learned during six-months at firm’s client

The real challenges will come once May v Corbyn battle is over

Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute

Ahead of the Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate on Monday, Tim Waterson explains how an early interest in politics set him up for life in the corporate finance fast lane

The lawyers who handled one of the biggest M&A deals of last year share their experiences with 50 students

Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work

Watch Laura Kendrick's video -- and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists -- below

Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences

Consider the bigger picture, says BPP University Law School head of LPC programmes Jane Houston

Ahead of Ashurst’s campus ambassador application deadline, Rebecca Fenton reflects on what she got out of the role — which the firm offers at 11 unis

How young lawyers can overcome the negative stereotypes associated with their generation