Tag: Students

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

What we learnt from Shearman & Sterling’s ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’
Video series for law students demystifies key commercial awareness concepts -- and new season will run this autumn

Bar Council ups Pupillage Gateway application limit from 12 to 20
Centralised system reopens on 28 November

The Apprentice: ULaw grad and solicitor among this year’s contestants
Aspiring City lawyer Kurran Pooni and civil specialist Sarah Ann Magson to battle it out before Lord Sugar in this year’s series

Lincoln’s Inn reveals first images of new advocacy mega-bunker
Multi-million pound redevelopment nears completion

Law, lager and lemonade: Is the legal sector over the limit?
We need to strike a healthy balance at legal events, says one future City trainee

What does AI mean for the lawyer of the future?
250 students head to Clifford Chance’s Canary Wharf office to find out

5 ways to get the most out of your university law society
Warwick Law Society’s careers officer James Smith tells freshers to embrace the valuable role their law soc will play as they embark on their degrees