Tag: Students

City law firms could offer super-exam prep courses
Training proposal raised in new SQE toolkit

£5 million in BPTC funding available as Inns of Court scholarship deadline looms
Wannabe barristers have until Friday 2 November to apply

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

The Apprentice: Law grad gets off to a shaky start after breaking arm wrestling another contestant
Just a week after the former ULaw LLBer forgot a candidate’s name during a business pitch

Law school offers Harry Potter LLB module
A degree in the dark arts?

Exchange Chambers expands free pupillage application advice day for northern bar hopefuls
Revamped 2018 forum will focus on how candidates can make themselves stand out during the recruitment process

Is the artificial intelligence emperor wearing any clothes?
An anonymous associate at a leading City of London law firm notes a disconnect between their experience on the ground and the tech marketing noise

5 things that will inevitably happen to you during your first year of law school
From caffeine addiction to the horrors of R v Brown

How my time at the CMS Academy led straight to a training contract
Future CMS trainee Inshaal Ahmad shares his insight into the global firm's innovative internship programme

To become a lawyer don’t study law, says Supreme Court’s Lord Sumption — do history, classics, economics or languages instead
Top judge backs law conversion route

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

The 2019 Chambers Most List goes live
Expanded careers guide now feature 50 sets — each with a Legal Cheek View and Insider Scorecard rankings

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

UCL law lecturer shocks freshers with his ‘really bad’ first ever essay
They gave it a borderline 2:2/third

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner gives law students a taste of trainee life with virtual reality goggles
It's not the first time a City law firm has embraced headset-style tech

Should I do an LLM and sit the SQE — or do the LPC while I still can?
I want to become a City lawyer

Law student dresses up as Spider-Man to accept his degree
Grad says superhero stunt was to show that not all aspiring lawyers are ‘square’

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

Super-exam cost revealed before Christmas, says SRA
As Kaplan's SQE director defends multiple choice format

The 2019 Firms Most List goes live
Expanded lists now feature 90 firms -- each with a Legal Cheek View and Insider Scorecard ranking

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