Tag: Students
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
Question mark remains over super-exam Welsh translation
Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims
‘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
Meet the Instagrammers making law revision look glam
If you don’t snap your studies, are you even revising?
‘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
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
Clifford Chance increases GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
Exclusive: First magic circle firm to award five-figure sum
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
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
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
London criminal law chambers pulls ‘unpaid’ internship
Exclusive: 9KBW places controversial expenses-only programme 'under review'
Media and tech law firm Wiggin launches training contract programme
Exclusive: Trainees start on £39k rising to £60k on qualification
Law third most complained about course by students
But business students have the most grumbles
KCL, Queen Mary, Swansea and Liverpool Uni law students triumph at annual pro bono awards
Attorney General among star-studded ceremony line-up
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
‘Never underestimate Kim Kardashian’, says lawyer helping star realise legal dream
Human rights specialist Jessica Jackson dishes the goss
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
Trainees risk ‘exploitation’ under super-exam, junior lawyers warn
Regulator urged to reinstate mandatory minimum salary -- again
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
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
London chambers offers ‘unpaid’ internship lasting up to six months
Exclusive: But 9KBW will cover wannabe barristers' travel expenses