Tag: Students

Legal Cheek launches new iPhone app with graduate recruitment deadline alerts
Free and easy-to-use future lawyer essential

It’s possible to get to a MoneyLaw US firm from a regional training contract after an ex-poly degree – I should know because I’ve done it
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you it's impossible

Are all Russell Group unis valued equally by firms?
I have offers to study law at two but don't know which to choose

Interview: The Cambridge law grad who shunned legal practice to launch a politics newsletter
Putting a law degree to good use without becoming a lawyer

7 reasons why law students should volunteer for Big Voice London this summer
Big Voice London’s Chaya Gupta and Asma Abbarova share their insight into the social mobility and youth engagement charity

Cambridge, Oxford and LSE prevail in ‘league table of league tables’
Brings together rankings from Complete University Guide, The Times and The Guardian

Edinburgh Uni launches review after public law exam answer papers go missing
Students asked to submit new 500 word assessment instead

Durham University law student to be deported after scholarship falls through
Would-be solicitor’s student visa set to be revoked

A senior associate’s notes from the frontline of the legal AI revolution
Pinsent Masons' Jennifer McCormick tells Legal Cheek Careers how technology is revolutionising her practice area of banking and restructuring

Aspiring lawyer who went into labour during family law exam celebrates Harvard graduation
Asked for an epidural and got on with the MCQs

Dundee ranks HIGHER than LSE, UCL and Durham in law degree league table
Cambridge bagged top spot -- again

Pupillage award minimum to jump by as much as 40%
BSB brings rookie pay in line with living wage

‘I’m a former magic circle lawyer with 20 years’ experience in legal education — this is how to secure a training contract’
A sneak peek at the hints and tips The University of Law's professor Alexis Mavrikakis will share at this evening's Secrets to Success event

BPP suspends law degree in face of solicitor super-exam
Exclusive: LLB on pause so law school can 'design programmes for the future'

Solicitor super-exam takes centre stage as legal education and training thought leaders debate future of profession
Technology, innovation, barrister training and apprenticeships thrust into spotlight

Video: What’s the best thing about being a brand ambassador at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner?
Global outfit’s current bunch share highlights, as applications open for 12 new ambassadors

Just 11 black law students admitted to Oxford University in three years
Six percent of black students that applied accepted offers -- the same is true of 20% of white applicants

Nottingham Trent law student ordered to pay £500 compensation following ‘disgusting’ racist chanting incident
19-year-old 'truly sorry' after footage of verbal onslaught went viral

Event: Secrets to Success London — with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, CMS, Gowling WLG and Pinsent Masons at ULaw Moorgate
Top lawyers share their secrets to success; students ask the questions

Exclusive SQE survey: sceptical students rank practical skills training over value for money — and want more lawtech courses
Legal Cheek research on the future of legal education and training revealed