Tag: Birmingham

Kerry Smith

How to secure a training contract: insider tips from a careers expert

A quick-fire Q&A with Kerry Smith, careers consultant at The University of Law

Sep 27 2024 9:55am

Insights into the Birmingham legal market and how to go about building QWE

Clare Stapleton, Employability Group Manager at ULaw Birmingham talks networking tips, common application pitfalls and demonstrating commercial awareness

Oct 10 2023 10:59am

TLT launches in Birmingham 

TC and apprenticeship plans as new office grows

Sep 25 2023 6:30am

Meet the Lambo-driving criminal law solicitor with over 100k followers on TikTok

Akhmed Yakoob tells Legal Cheek how he cultivated his online following

Mar 22 2023 8:55am
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Nailing a TC application, handling rejection and what it really means to be ‘commercially aware’

Clare Stapleton, The University of Law’s campus careers manager in Birmingham, speaks to Legal Cheek Careers, ahead of next week's IN-PERSON workshops and networking evening in the West Midlands

Oct 21 2022 1:35pm

The benefits of training as a lawyer in the Midlands

Lawyers and legal education experts consider what Birmingham has to offer trainees

Jul 2 2021 12:49pm

Further top law firms confirm spring vacation scheme suspensions

Clyde & Co, Gowling WLG, Burges Salmon, Stephenson Harwood and TLT

Mar 30 2020 11:00am

What it’s like working at a global law firm outside London

Three Hogan Lovells associates based in the firm's Birmingham office tell all to Legal Cheek Careers

Feb 12 2020 12:03pm

How techy do you have to be to work in tech law?

DWF technology, media and telecoms partner Ben McLeod shares his thoughts

Feb 11 2020 2:02pm

The Green Economy will be the defining theme of the 2020s

Three Shoosmiths partners look at what’s happening now and in the future

Jan 8 2020 2:27pm

The Green Economy through the eyes of a planning lawyer

Anna Cartledge, a partner at Shoosmiths, sheds light on brick shortages, electronic cars and life in Birmingham

Dec 2 2019 1:58pm

‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’

Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties

Nov 13 2019 12:56pm

A day in the life of a corporate lawyer

Solicitors from Gowling WLG, Pinsent Masons and DWF tell us what their jobs are really like

Jun 20 2019 2:03pm

Event: Secrets to Success Birmingham — with Irwin Mitchell, VWV, Kings Chambers and ULaw

Wednesday 27 March in Birmingham; open to all students

Mar 22 2019 6:55pm