Tag: Students

BSB delays release of BPTC ethics exam results after spotting ‘clerical errors’

Exclusive: All providers impacted as regulator conducts ‘further check on every paper’

Jul 7 2017 1:51pm

Macfarlanes sharply raises NQ pay to over £80,000

Exclusive: £10k increase for firm’s newly qualified lawyers

Jul 6 2017 3:14pm

From student to solicitor: The most important things that you learn during your training contract

‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’

Jul 5 2017 2:11pm

Inner Temple to build ‘education and training centre’ for wannabe barristers

Radical redevelopment includes 120-seat lecture theatre and break out spaces

Jul 5 2017 12:08pm

What you need to know before you apply for a training contract

The application deadlines are looming

Jul 4 2017 10:49am

Five qualities that make a good corporate lawyer

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City lawyer' on Thursday, Herbert Smith Freehills associate Siddhartha Shukla discusses the key skills he has learnt in his career to date

Jul 3 2017 4:01pm

Law firms are not looking for ‘the polished, finished article’

Ahead of How to make it as a City Lawyer, BPP lecturer and former City lawyer Charlie Radcliffe talks training contracts and showing your 'human side'

Jun 30 2017 12:04pm

10 Love Islanders’ faces law students will instantly relate to

Reality show contestants and wannabe lawyers -- they have more in common than you might think

Jun 30 2017 9:51am

The Oxford University gown debate, from a law student’s perspective

Is wearing different gowns depending on your grades morally wrong?

Jun 30 2017 9:06am

New law graduates earn less money than social studies, education and business studies graduates

£20,000 a year average makes it one of lowest salaries

Jun 29 2017 2:02pm

Revealed: The staggering differences behind universities’ LLB places

Exclusive: There are more law students at Liverpool than Oxford and Cambridge combined

Jun 29 2017 9:09am

Bristol University forced to apologise as ‘technical glitch’ stops final year lawyers accessing degree module results

Exclusive: Some students worried this will impact training contract applications

Jun 28 2017 1:08pm

Alternative careers for law graduates: financial crime

Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Garry Clement -- who has seen it all -- is consistently impressed by the qualities that those from a legal background bring to his specialism of financial crime

Jun 28 2017 11:47am

An engineering graduate’s journey into law

Ahead of 'How to make it as a City Lawyer', Mayer Brown associate Emma Sturt considers the skills that science students bring to the legal profession

Jun 26 2017 3:14pm

How good (or bad) was your LPC? Take the Legal Cheek 60 second survey

Rate your Legal Practice Course provider

Jun 26 2017 11:38am

Should I study A-level law if I want to do a law degree?

Help or hindrance: Legal Cheek investigates the value of this 'soft' subject

Jun 26 2017 8:56am

Dundee student collects law degree from doctor who saved her life when she was a baby

She was baptised at one-day-old because she wasn’t expected to make it

Jun 23 2017 2:56pm

Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation

Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who "pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to" helped put him on the right track

Jun 23 2017 12:05pm

ULaw among gold-rated universities in government’s first teaching rankings

While some Russell Group universities scored bronze

Jun 22 2017 2:26pm