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New Year round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the New Year period

12 New Year’s resolutions for aspiring lawyers
From networking and work experience to essay planning and applications -- how many will you keep?

Top tips for non-law students looking to get a TC
How to sell your non-legal skills and ensure you perform your best in interviews

Legal Cheek’s top read stories of 2022
From City lawyer spending habits to barrister parking wars; it's been another year stuffed full of click-inducing content

The Big Legal Cheek News Quiz 2022
How much do you remember? 🤔

12 Christmas struggles law students can relate to
T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, just a law student crying

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Shearman and Hogan Lovells respond to merger rumour
Will the City gain a new US super-firm?

Law firm tackles loneliness with new bookshop
gunnercooke community project opens in Manchester

How I secured my UK training contract as an international student
Legal Cheek events coordinator and future City trainee Divyansh Sharma offers up his top five tips

Top City firms raise over £600,000 to support 65 aspiring social welfare lawyers through the SQE
Mayer Brown, Ropes and Law Society among latest backers

Pupil barrister passed off other tenants’ work as his own, tribunal finds
Decision open to appeal

Queen Mary law graduate lands SQE1 scholarship for ‘future of law’ essay
Paralegal Nitesh Rewatkar receives £3k for BARBRI course

Keele Uni launches ‘UKs first’ climate crisis LLB
New offering explores companies and governments obligations as well as the legal mechanisms holding them to account

9 Xmas gifts for the aspiring lawyer in your life
From Hale tote bags to 'sh*t strong' coffee, Legal Cheek has you covered

Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend

Spotify Wrapped — law student edition
Which tracks make your playlist? 🎧

De Montfort law lecturer helps Team GB bag gold at World Dodgeball Championships
Competes in Canada 🤾

Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

Law student unwittingly asks Supreme Court justice for directions
Aspiring lawyer 'awestruck by Lord Briggs kindness'