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Event: Infrastructure, the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon
Commercial Awareness Question Time is coming to Bristol
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Why blockchain is here to stay as a force for good
And lawyers have a central role to play, says Norton Rose Fulbright fintech partner Victoria Birch
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The lawyer who works from his garden on some of the best-known cases in Britain
Leading media lawyer Jonathan Coad on his switch from Lewis Silkin equity partner to Keystone Law consultant
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Event: Bitcoin, blockchain & smart contracts — and the next generation of lawyers
Norton Rose Fulbright fintech lawyers share their experiences from the tech frontiers
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How to approach university Clearing
You can have a stress-free results day, says The University of Law’s Director of Admissions
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A trainee solicitor’s experience of law firm innovation
Reed Smith’s Shannon Diggory reports from the City frontline
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How to make the most of your London law degree
City, University of London law student Christianah Babajide on the advantages of studying in the capital
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8 tangible benefits that technology is bringing to law firms
Ahead of Pinsent Masons’ training contract application deadline on Friday, five lawyers and technologists at the famously tech-savvy firm consider how innovation is helping them
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Four key moments from ‘How to make it as a City lawyer’
Last minute TC application gold
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What you don’t learn watching Suits
A Macfarlanes NQ, associate and partner discuss what they do on a deal
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How approachable partners can make all the difference during your training contract
Open plan office, team nights out and annual ski trip set the tone, RPC rookie tells Legal Cheek Careers
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Training contract applications, they’re a two-way street
Think as much about what you can offer the firm as what the firm can offer you, advises Norton Rose Fulbright trainee Gillian Jaravaza
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Where will corporate law firms be ten years from now?
Pinsent Masons partner Richard Masters draws on 30 years of practice to forecast what comes next
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From student to solicitor: The most important things that you learn during your training contract
‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’
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Five qualities that make a good corporate lawyer
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
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Law firms are not looking for ‘the polished, finished article’
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’
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Alternative careers for law graduates: financial crime
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
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An engineering graduate’s journey into law
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
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Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation
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
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From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner
As Ashurst’s training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date
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Birmingham student event: Lawyers and the fourth industrial revolution — with Pinsent Masons
How AI and Big Data will change legal practice
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Why lawyers need to be good listeners
Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes’ deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice
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Event: How to make it as a City lawyer
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
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Experience: I did a secondment at a global media company during my City training contract
Reed Smith trainee Roch Glowacki reflects on what he learned during six-months at firm’s client
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Shearman & Sterling lawyers look beyond General Election to the main event: Brexit
The real challenges will come once May v Corbyn battle is over
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How the Norton Rose Fulbright energy law LLM scholarship is helping to take a young lawyer’s career to the next level
Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute
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Law, politics and the City
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
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Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time — Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe, with Macfarlanes
The lawyers who handled one of the biggest M&A deals of last year share their experiences with 50 students
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I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my training contract in London later this year
Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work
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Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong Kong and Australia offices
Watch Laura Kendrick’s video — and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists — below
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Event: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate
Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences
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Five ways law students can engage with tech to best prepare for legal practice
Consider the bigger picture, says BPP University Law School head of LPC programmes Jane Houston
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From Exeter to Ashurst: How being a campus ambassador helped me secure a prestigious City training contract
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
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A law firm survival guide for millennials
How young lawyers can overcome the negative stereotypes associated with their generation
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The best things about representing a law firm on campus
Brian Ramamoorthy on what he has learned from being Norton Rose Fulbright’s university manager at King’s College London
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Do expect big things from lawtech, don’t learn to code
Lawyers from RPC and Hardwicke consider the future of litigation
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Interview: 2010 non-law grads who worked in the City after graduating explain why they are becoming lawyers
Duo will begin training contracts at Shearman & Sterling next year
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