Tag: Students

Russell Group uni builds on 2015 tie-up with Reed Smith

Agents have been allowed to charge exorbitant, arbitrary fees for too long, says future trainee solicitor Fraser Collingham

Scrapping of LPC, shift to apprenticeships and focus on tech prompt enthusiasm and anxiety in equal measure

Lawyers share their routes into the profession -- and what they learned along the way

LPCer gets genuine in new week-in-the-life vlog series

The Twittersphere responds

Jaime Hamilton offering £700 bursary plus travel expenses for two-week placement

Just weeks after boosting NQ pay to £100,000

Public law questions dished out on two occasions during EU assessment

PJ Kirby QC, joint head of Hardwicke, speaks to Legal Cheek ahead of his appearance this afternoon at The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019

£6,000 grant and work experience up for grabs

Laura Pinkney, head of Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre, chats to Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain

Too attractive for a training contract?

Ken Oliphant, head of Bristol University Law School, explains why he foresees only tweaks around the edges to the traditional LLB

Unremunerated roles 'symptomatic of the general crisis at the criminal bar', says one wannabe barrister

ULaw’s John Watkins talks transferrable skills and reveals how career changers can show risk-averse employers that they’re a safe option

Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims

Legal Cheek Careers chats to Clifford Chance partner and co-head of the technology practice, Jonathan Kewley, about the firm’s new lawtech training contract

If you don’t snap your studies, are you even revising?

Cornerstones Barristers’ Andrew Lane reflects on his career to date and how barrister training should evolve to adequately prepare the next generation of advocates

JLD argued rookies risk 'exploitation' under work experience element of SQE -- but regulator doesn't agree