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City firm targets hot shot 18 year-olds

Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers

Battle to protect trainee pay not over yet

Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first

A splintering graduate recruitment model will create opportunities for savvy wannabe lawyers, forecasts Legal Cheek managing editor Alex Aldridge

Some apprentices are paid less than half what their trainee counterparts earn -- raising suggestions that the role could revolutionise legal profession training

Chartered Institute of Legal Executive president Fran Edwards expects more students to follow her on-the-job route into the profession over the coming years

There’s going to be some sort of democratic bonanza in a place made famous by an American-Australian actor in a Hollywood epic — but as far as the Scottish legal profession is concerned, it’s already independent

Huge pay differentials at top corporate firms north and south of border

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Solicitors coined £77m from personal injury claims, but it didn’t stop them taking the Micky out of miners

Citizenship Foundation's Bar Mock Trial final sees Northern Ireland's Aquinas Grammar School win national junior advocacy crown. But assembled top lawyers warn wannabes of plight of criminal Bar, and encourage them to explore other areas.

As increasing numbers of top law firms introduce apprenticeship programmes, we consider the arguments in favour of entering the legal profession straight from school.

23 Essex Street pupil barrister Hannah Evans (pictured) was the star of Saturday's 'One Bar One Voice' event after revealing the reality of on the Bar's bottom rung for "ordinary" people.

Weber Shandwick head of public affairs Alex Deane doesn’t regret his time scraping a living...

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...

After Catherine Rowlands’ first chambers’ Tooks-style collapse, a spell in the regions working in magistrates’...

Legal Cheek’s new columnist WaitroseLaw is dismayed by John McCririck’s use of a forthcoming employment...

In October we reported on a US law graduate’s bid to pay off his massive...

First, the good news: British lawyers pull in more cash than their counterparts in economic...