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The importance of displaying your personality in training contract interviews

Application and interview advice courtesy of solicitors from Burges Salmon, Osborne Clarke and RPC

Mar 16 2020 2:37pm

It’s possible to combine your passions with a career in law

Three A&O Peerpoint lawyers explain how

Mar 9 2020 2:47pm

How to secure a training contract at a top law firm

Burges Salmon solicitor turned ULaw Bristol and Exeter dean Zoe King offers tips to applicants

Feb 25 2020 1:16pm

Four high flying City lawyers at US firms share their career stories

What we learnt from an hour listening to partners from Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, as well as associates from Shearman & Sterling and Cleary Gottlieb

Feb 20 2020 2:14pm

Revealed: The best chambers for training and quality of work 2020

The results from the latest Legal Cheek Junior Barrister Survey are in

Feb 4 2020 9:03am

‘The way we do business will inevitably change — but we will always need lawyers’

ULTRA Project Director and The University of Law (ULaw) senior tutor, Patrick Grant, on the rise of technology in the legal profession and what it means for future lawyers

Jan 23 2020 2:23pm

Lawyer event: How to follow your dreams outside law while still working as a lawyer — with A&O Peerpoint

Thursday 13 February at Allen & Overy, London -- open to lawyers from 2QE and up

Jan 20 2020 1:39pm

How to follow your dreams outside law while still working as a lawyer — with A&O Peerpoint

Thursday 13 February at Allen & Overy, London -- open to associates 2PQE and up

‘We’re not just paying lip service to innovation — it’s part of our culture’

CMS real estate senior associate Simon Porter talks tech ahead of our ‘Innovation and the law’ event in Edinburgh

Nov 27 2019 2:45pm

My life as a corporate finance lawyer advising tech companies and entrepreneurs

Ahead of her appearance at ‘The Northern Powerhouse economy of the 2020s’, Addleshaw Goddard’s Carly Gulliver shares an insight into fast-growing practice

Nov 22 2019 1:09pm

10 Supreme stories to celebrate top UK court’s 10th birthday

A recap of some of Legal Cheek's faves

Oct 16 2019 11:00am

Technology and emerging markets — with Clifford Chance

Thursday 5 September at Clifford Chance London

Inside Norton Rose Fulbright’s new lawtech module with York University

Those behind the first-of-its-kind, jointly-taught programme reveal the thinking behind the move

Jul 3 2019 12:37pm

How I leveraged my foreign language skills to secure a City training contract

Lewis Fairfax, corporate litigator at Hogan Lovells, chats to Legal Cheek's Aishah Hussain ahead of his appearance at next Wednesday’s ‘Inside Track: How to become a City lawyer' event

Jul 1 2019 1:45pm

YouTuber parodies Kim Kardashian applying to Harvard Law School

Comedian Benito Skinner plays out infamous Legally Blonde video application scene

Jun 26 2019 1:47pm

Magic circle and US law firms ‘must change the way they work’ or face ‘doom’, warns the FT

Will £100k+ for newly qualified solicitors prove a high water mark?

Jun 14 2019 3:51pm

Monday morning round-up

The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend

Jun 10 2019 7:59am

Why leaping into law as a career changer takes confidence

ULaw’s John Watkins talks transferrable skills and reveals how career changers can show risk-averse employers that they’re a safe option

May 17 2019 1:16pm

Kim Kardashian relates to law student struggles

Social media sensation turned law student says she won’t have time for ‘literally anything’

May 7 2019 4:21pm