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What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers

Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade

Nov 21 2019 2:12pm

Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them

Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani

Nov 20 2019 12:06pm

Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs

Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons

Nov 18 2019 2:04pm

City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall

Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness

Nov 15 2019 1:00pm

The climate crisis and the role of lawyers

A trio of Burges Salmon lawyers explain how the push towards a greener economy is affecting their clients

Nov 14 2019 2:51pm

‘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

The solicitor super-exam and the opportunities ahead for aspiring lawyers

Victoria Cromwell, head of SQE at BARBRI, discusses lawtech and legal education

Nov 12 2019 2:07pm

Why I joined a US law firm in London

Ahead of Wednesday’s event, ‘The rise of US law firms in London’, we speak to Shearman & Sterling lawyer Jonathan Swil

Nov 11 2019 3:03pm

6 areas future lawyers need to reflect on in order to stand out from the crowd

Pinsent Masons solicitors share their advice

Nov 7 2019 1:02pm

What a greener future means for lawyers

Osborne Clarke environmental partner Matthew Germain shares his forecasts for the decade ahead

Nov 6 2019 12:37pm

A day in the life of a civil fraud lawyer

Practice area insight from RPC solicitors and Hardwicke barrister

Nov 5 2019 12:40pm

How I secured a training contract in the Edinburgh office of an international law firm

Matt Finnie, a second-year trainee at Addleshaw Goddard, on how to forge a career in the law

Nov 4 2019 1:50pm

It’s important to have a passion outside law

Hill Dickinson partner Ian Gillis on martial arts, Manchester and the importance of a commercial mindset

Nov 1 2019 11:34am

Taylor Wessing lawyers open up about mental health

Partners and associates share experiences of handling stress at work

Oct 31 2019 10:26am

‘My life as an environmental lawyer’

Burges Salmon associate Stephen Lavington reflects on his route into the law and offers advice to the next generation of lawyers

Oct 30 2019 10:13am

Black History Month: Why we must use it as a platform for action

Mayer Brown associate Edmund Bentsi-Enchill explains how it can help level the playing field for talented students

Oct 29 2019 12:08pm

I felt a part of the firm from the moment I walked through the door

Ashurst’s Aneesa Khan reflects on life as a dispute resolution associate ahead of the firm's winter vac scheme deadline on 3 November

Oct 28 2019 12:50pm

There’s more to being a good lawyer than just knowing the law

Irwin Mitchell corporate partner Victoria Zivkovic explains why commercial awareness means going beyond the textbooks

Oct 25 2019 12:54pm

‘My vision for the new solicitor super-exam’

Sarah Hutchinson, international managing director at BARBRI, discusses the future of legal education

Oct 24 2019 2:36pm

Civil fraud lawyers get to embrace their inner detective

Ahead of Thursday’s student careers event, ‘Life as a civil fraud lawyer’, two RPC senior associates reflect on their time at the firm

Oct 23 2019 1:54pm