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My most memorable pro bono case

Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers share their stories

Dec 5 2018 1:50pm
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I landed a pupillage when I stopped trying to look and talk like a barrister

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘How to make it as a barrister’ event in London tomorrow, ULaw future pupil programme coordinator Joseph O’Leary shares his top tips

Dec 3 2018 2:43pm
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The scenic route to the commercial bar

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest bar student event, ‘How to make it as a barrister’, on the evening of Tuesday 4 December, Hardwicke barrister Laurence Page tells us about his unusual career journey to date

Nov 27 2018 2:22pm
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Struggling to secure a training contract helped me build resilience

Gowling WLG partner Samantha Holland recalls a tough start to her career

Nov 22 2018 7:56pm
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Arriving now: The transportation revolution is here, and lawyers should be ready to ride

Burges Salmon lawyers discuss the impact of electric and autonomous vehicles on the legal profession and the opportunities ahead

Nov 21 2018 2:12pm
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How to make partner at a global law firm without working in London

Gareth Saynor on his journey from Nottingham University to partner in CMS’s Sheffield corporate team

Nov 20 2018 9:59am

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What does Brexit mean for future lawyers?

Over 200 students headed to Linklaters’ Silk Street office to find out

Nov 15 2018 2:45pm
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The tension between innovation and regulation

Osborne Clarke lawyers discuss the big commercial awareness question of the moment

Nov 12 2018 4:00pm
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We spoke to Herbert Smith Freehills pro bono associate Andrew Barton about the growing importance of free legal work

Ahead of tomorrow’s ‘How lawyers can make a difference through pro bono and CSR — with Herbert Smith Freehills’ event, Andrew Barton talks about his career to date and why it’s important for lawyers to give back

Nov 6 2018 4:26pm
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6 things students need to know about insurance law and insurtech

RPC insurance specialists deliver insights on hot commercial awareness topic

Nov 5 2018 3:00pm
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What I’ve learned so far: Advice from a trainee loving City law life

Olivia Davies’ love of sport — and law — helped her secure a training contract at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Since joining she has done seats in real estate and construction, and a secondment in Abu Dhabi

Nov 1 2018 4:16pm
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Linklaters’ co-head of fintech on what Brexit means for future lawyers

Finn Griggs advises students to focus on the many positives emanating from the coming together of finance and technology during this ‘time of change’

Oct 31 2018 2:45pm

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How I became a lawyer who advises self-driving car start-ups and other innovative companies

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest student commercial awareness event, with Burges Salmon in Bristol next week, we spoke to projects and transport lawyer Ed Barratt

Oct 23 2018 3:43pm
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Ten minutes with Osborne Clarke’s digital revolution knowledge lawyer Catherine Hammon

Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain sat down with Catherine Hammon to discuss cross-industry disruption

Oct 22 2018 4:48pm
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Brexit is bringing new opportunities to Dublin, say top lawyers

Solicitors from global law firms Pinsent Masons, Dechert and Matheson join international bar qualification provider BARBRI to discuss the rise of Dublin as a legal centre

Oct 18 2018 2:41pm
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Successful lawyers are good at the basics

Apply the law and understand your client’s business and you will do well whatever changes technology brings, says RPC’s Dan Guilfoyle

Oct 10 2018 10:57am
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11 things law students need to know about legal design

Members from Norton Rose Fulbright’s innovation team share their insights on the hot commercial awareness topic of 2018

Oct 8 2018 3:21pm
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The changing fortunes of Dublin as a legal centre from the eyes of a lawyer who lived it

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘The rise of Dublin as a global legal centre’, Pinsent Masons senior associate Marilyn Cooney reflects on her career to date

Oct 2 2018 2:15pm

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The life of a capital markets lawyer

White & Case’s Inigo Esteve tells us how he helps international companies list on the London Stock Exchange and shares his advice for students seeking to get into this branch of City law

Oct 1 2018 4:21pm
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What we learnt from Shearman & Sterling’s ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’

Video series for law students demystifies key commercial awareness concepts — and new season will run this autumn

Sep 26 2018 2:45pm
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What does AI mean for the lawyer of the future?

250 students head to Clifford Chance’s Canary Wharf office to find out

Sep 24 2018 5:00pm
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‘Strangely my most memorable case was also in some respects my least enjoyable’

Hardwicke barristers Tom Bell and Emily Betts reflect on their journeys from fresh-faced pupils to rising stars of the bar

Sep 12 2018 2:25pm
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How two years as a county court advocate helped me secure pupillage

Luke Blease appeared in more than 70 courtrooms across the country, including before High Court judges in the Royal Courts of Justice

Sep 3 2018 1:53pm