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Why leaping into law as a career changer takes confidence

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

May 17 2019 1:16pm

Question mark remains over super-exam Welsh translation

Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims

May 17 2019 8:44am

‘Tech doesn’t respect boundaries — it is universal and affects how we run all our practice areas’

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

May 16 2019 11:42am

Meet the Instagrammers making law revision look glam

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

May 14 2019 9:09am

‘We have an obligation to make entry to the bar as fair as possible’

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

May 13 2019 2:50pm

SRA dismisses calls to reintroduce mandatory minimum trainee solicitor pay

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

May 13 2019 1:53pm

Clifford Chance increases GDL maintenance grant to £10,000

Exclusive: First magic circle firm to award five-figure sum

May 13 2019 9:03am

From lawyer to legal entrepreneur: You’re programmed to be risk averse — but you can’t fear failure

Mary Bonsor, co-founder and CEO of F-LEX, chats to Legal Cheek ahead of her appearance at the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019 on 22 May

May 10 2019 12:31pm

Inns of Court unveil country’s cheapest barrister training course

Charity applying for sign-off on £13,000 course in major bar training shake-up

May 10 2019 7:58am

The role of diverse skills in the ‘radically different’ legal services of the future

LexisNexis director, Dani McCormick, talks about her path from a career in advertising to law to legal tech, and how different law might be in the future

May 9 2019 3:40pm
Poor law students

London criminal law chambers pulls ‘unpaid’ internship

Exclusive: 9KBW places controversial expenses-only programme 'under review'

May 9 2019 8:49am

Media and tech law firm Wiggin launches training contract programme

Exclusive: Trainees start on £39k rising to £60k on qualification

May 8 2019 11:47am

Law third most complained about course by students

But business students have the most grumbles

May 7 2019 9:03am

KCL, Queen Mary, Swansea and Liverpool Uni law students triumph at annual pro bono awards

Attorney General among star-studded ceremony line-up

May 3 2019 11:08am

BARBRI teams up with KCL to offer New York and California bar course

Global legal education provider to teach out of London's Dickson Poon School of Law from September

May 2 2019 8:55am

‘Never underestimate Kim Kardashian’, says lawyer helping star realise legal dream

Human rights specialist Jessica Jackson dishes the goss

May 1 2019 11:01am

The SQE and the challenges ahead

ULaw’s director of business development, Morette Jackson, reveals how law firms are reacting to the new solicitor super-exam

May 1 2019 10:00am

Trainees risk ‘exploitation’ under super-exam, junior lawyers warn

Regulator urged to reinstate mandatory minimum salary -- again

Apr 30 2019 10:49am

How do we tackle the legal profession’s mental health problem?

Many lawyers appear to be ‘surviving but not thriving’, says Newcastle University's Professor Richard Collier

Apr 29 2019 9:16am

Exclusive interview: We met the Nottingham Uni law grad trying to stop Brexit

Legal Cheek sat down with social media star Femi Oluwole to discuss his journey from law to politics

Apr 26 2019 9:13am

London chambers offers ‘unpaid’ internship lasting up to six months

Exclusive: But 9KBW will cover wannabe barristers' travel expenses

Apr 25 2019 1:02pm