Legal Cheek Careers
The latest careers content in one place, plus events, key deadlines, campus ambassador programme details and the Legal Cheek Most Lists.
Not being yourself wastes valuable energy
After having children, Hogan Lovells partner Elaine Penrose decided to be completely open about her sexuality at work -- including with clients
From Durham to Bristol: the advantages of being a future lawyer outside London
Burges Salmon trainee Sarah Carter has found high quality work and a really nice lifestyle in the South West
How to secure work experience through networking
Be confident -- and then follow through
How do you retain the best lawyers and allow them to have a life?
Shearman & Sterling’s Women in Law conference in London explored ways to boost gender diversity at the top
‘Traditionally mentoring has been associated with the straight white male world’
Getting advice from experienced LGBT lawyers helped Miles Tonkin secure a training contract at Herbert Smith Freehills
Event: Alternative routes to becoming a lawyer
How law students can make it into the legal profession without doing a training contract
‘Many young lawyers don’t realise that set-backs are actually great springboards’
The difficulties faced by RPC partner Parham Kouchikali -- who arrived in Britain aged eight unable to speak English -- have stayed with him in a positive way in his professional life
Training contract interview horror stories
Students share howlers to mark Halloween
The law student A to Z
The definitive wannabe lawyer alphabet
Video: Why the legal profession needs people who see the world differently
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Why wannabe lawyers shouldn’t feel they have to come across as from a certain socio-economic background
"Your differences can become your strength," says Hogan Lovells partner Tom Astle
How waitressing helped me succeed as an international competition lawyer
Herbert Smith Freehills' Veronica Roberts on her journey from the local comprehensive to global law firm partner
Lawyers wanted to stem rise of crime in schools
Engaging students in society is key, says project manager of Citizenship Foundation's Lawyers in Schools programme
A motorbike accident transformed me from junior lawyer coaster to driven CEO
Fletchers chief Ed Fletcher recalls how a spinal cord injury gave him a clarity that would change the course of his career
How wannabe lawyers can become employable
ULaw employability chief John Watkins believes students overestimate some of their soft-skills
How to survive the pupillage Hunger Games
Hardwicke's two new tenants reveal how they made it to fully-fledged barrister status
Event: Why the legal profession needs people who see the world differently
Lord Neuberger and a panel of top solicitors and barristers offer students who don't fit the mould tips on how to get ahead in law
Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers field financial and legal news questions from 40 students
Inaugural Commercial Awareness Question Time takes place at London office of global firm
10 secrets to Graduate Diploma in Law success
"It's not a marathon or a sprint, it's the 10,000 metres"
What ‘commercial awareness’ means when you’re a trainee
Norton Rose Fulbright newly qualified solicitor Tom Capel on how the hard-to-define concept beloved of law firms manifests itself in real life
Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time at Norton Rose Fulbright
Get to the front of the training contract queue, with free places for 25 students up for grabs