Tag: lccareers
8 things you need to know before applying for an Inns of Court scholarship
“Inner Temple for the rich, Middle Temple for the poor; Lincoln’s Inn for the gentlemen, And Gray’s Inn for a whore.” Spoiler: this rhyme is very misleading.
Video: Legal Cheek Careers at Gray’s Inn
The full video of Tuesday's 'How to survive (and even thrive) in a changing legal market' free careers advice event
Become a lawyer because you’re passionate about it — not to please your parents
Your career may take a different direction to what you expect, but if your heart's in it you'll be fine
‘I wish I had known how to be a good boss’
Barrister and City University law lecturer Andrew Worthley would have banned his younger self from pulling caffeine-fuelled all-nighters
It’s harder for today’s law graduates — but there are ways they can boost their chances
Norton Rose Fulbright tax lawyer Andrew Roycroft thinks his career may have begun differently if he was starting out in today's hyper-competitive job market
5 things I wish I’d known about being a City lawyer when I was starting out
Hogan Lovells financial services litigation partner Louise Lamb shares some legal life hacks
Event: How to survive — and even thrive — in a changing legal market
Free Legal Cheek Careers event at Gray’s Inn featuring a panel of leading lawyers — open to all law students and junior lawyers
‘There are not as many jobs for traditional lawyers as there used to be’
Chartered Institute of Legal Executive president Fran Edwards expects more students to follow her on-the-job route into the profession over the coming years
How to be a pupil barrister
As this year's baby barristers prepare to commence pupillage, Hardwicke's Jasmine Murphy offers some words of wisdom
How a jobless LPC graduate ended up turning down top firms’ training contract offers
Sam Clague couldn’t get a TC, so he started a paralegal recruitment business — and law firms quickly became interested in his entrepreneurial spirit
Interview: Ian Ashley-Smith on how he became a judge without getting a degree
There are ways to make it to the top in law without a glittering academic record -- or indeed hardly any academic record at all
7 life hacks for training contract hunters
A recent Aspiring Solicitors careers day at Kaplan Law School saw two former City law insiders reveal some of the secrets to landing a TC at a top firm
Podcast: Why law students shouldn’t wait until term starts to begin the hunt for training contracts and pupillages
With the first months of law school notoriously busy, students should be starting the early phases of the training contract and pupillage application processes this month
Training contract assessment centre case study: 8 tips for winning at the City law end game
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge gets the lowdown from Norton Rose Fulbright on what it takes to emerge victorious from a training contract assessment centre
14 insightful interactions from our Twitter discussion about bagging a training contract
The best bits from yesterday's #TCapps Q&A, featuring Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors, Kaplan Law School and David Allen Green -- amongst a host of other experts and wannabe lawyers.
We are holding a myth-busting Twitter Q&A about getting a training contract on Wednesday at 1pm
Advice from, amongst others, Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors and David Allen Green in hour-long session that is open to all.
4 things you absolutely must do during a vac scheme
A student, a trainee and a graduate recruiter share their experiences of vac schemes at Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Norton Rose Fulbright to help wannabe lawyers about to start summer placements at City law firms.
Hitting the secondment jackpot: what it’s like to be a trainee in NYC
New York is like "London with an umph", says Mayer Brown trainee solicitor Kibbeum Kim, and life as a lawyer there "takes working hard and playing harder to a whole new level".
Could old-fashioned mentoring be the new ‘CV Blind’?
Having explored ‘CV Blind’ and sampled an Aspiring Solicitors’ lunch, Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge gets a taste of the often-overlooked area of legal mentoring.
11 things not to do in a pupillage interview
You’ve made the cut. You’ve secured that pupillage interview. @Wigapedia advises on what you should NOT do next...
Does the future of law have no place for women?
Over 50% of new entrants to the legal profession may be women, but its higher echelons remain dominated by men — as a recent conference on the future of law demonstrated. Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) boss Diane Burleigh reports.