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Tributes pour in for LSE law graduate who fell from bridge while escaping burning car

Azra Kemal was due to commence LPC

Jul 20 2020 12:27pm
Vlogging future City trainee solicitor reflects on magic circle vac scheme rejection

Ali Obeid has since secured a TC with a top US law firm

Jul 3 2020 9:12am
LSE law student drafts ‘Zoom Class Act 2020’ as lectures go online

Hung on her bedroom door

Apr 2 2020 11:16am
Vlogging future City trainee solicitor reveals how to secure a vac scheme the ‘easy way’

Ali Obeid has interned at a number of top outfits

Aug 7 2019 8:58am
Journal

Can we put a price on a polar bear?

As part of Legal Cheek’s occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally, today we examine the monetary value we place on the natural world

Jul 12 2019 10:09am
Oxford Uni beats Cambridge and LSE in law grad earnings league table with average salary of £67,200

Stats focus on pay packets five years post-graduation

Jul 1 2019 8:58am

Being a corporate lawyer is a ‘bulls**t job’, argues LSE professor

City law jobs are totally pointless

May 17 2018 10:28am
LSE student who tried to ban free speech society shares tabloid ordeal pain

The motion filed by Maurice Banerjee Palmer was meant to be ironic

Mar 29 2016 9:16am
LSE law student files motion to ban student society set up to stop university banning things

Final year LLB-er thinks free speech society is “self-important and ill-informed”

Feb 5 2016 12:26pm
Top lawyers are ten times more likely to be privately educated than anyone else

The legal profession just can’t seem to shake its ‘old boys’ club’ reputation — for good reason

Nov 23 2015 1:48pm
Hogan Lovells in mourning after young lawyer murdered in Paris attacks

LSE graduate Valentin Ribet killed at the Bataclan concert hall

Nov 16 2015 8:36am
Was Osama bin Laden doing law revision when raided by special forces?

US spooks reveal the al-Qaeda supremo was leafing through LSE-educated solicitor’s book in the hours before he met his end

May 21 2015 10:19am

Can You Fund Yourself Through A Law Degree Without Resorting To Life Modelling?

Legal Cheek‘s Lucy Pether draws on her experience as a law student at LSE to…

Apr 15 2013 12:28pm
Hot Law Students Fuel Valentine’s Spike In University ‘Spotted’ Facebook Posts

Recently a wave of university-wide “Spotted” pages have appeared on Facebook – enabling students to comment…

Feb 14 2013 2:12pm
Think Twice Before You Press That Retweet Button

The bit from Keir Starmer QC’s speech at the LSE last night that got everyone…

Oct 25 2012 8:10am
ADVICE: Your Uni Choices Are Fine, But Why The Narrow Focus On The Bar?

I recently received this email from a prospective law student… Read my response below.

May 2 2012 9:55am
What Does City ‘Mini-Boom’ Mean For Wannabe Lawyers?

Hope (of City recovery, creation of more fat cats and then another crash) is beautiful,…

Feb 21 2012 2:38pm
At Least You’re Not an Italian Trainee Lawyer…

As English law students worry about the possible scrapping of the minimum trainee solicitor salary,…

Feb 1 2012 4:07pm

LSE Students in Freedom of Expression Battle as They Refuse to Remove Jesus and Mohammed Cartoons

The London School of Economics (LSE) Student Union Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society (LSESU ASH)…

Jan 24 2012 12:59pm