Tag: Students

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

US outfit Goodwin Procter launches London training contract schemes

News follows firm’s involvement in KWM trainee rescue mission

Jun 21 2017 3:50pm

From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner

As Ashurst's training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date

Jun 21 2017 2:03pm

I’m boiling to death on my vac scheme — do I still have to wear a suit?

The air con is crap and there's only one fan per office

Jun 21 2017 9:03am

Over 60% of BPTC grads don’t have pupillage, new stats show

As enrolments on the vocational course drop by 7%

Jun 20 2017 8:53am

‘Robot lawyer’ created by Cambridge students will now answer your legal problems via Facebook Messenger

LawBot X predicts claim outcomes and boasts 71% success rating

Jun 19 2017 1:42pm

Why lawyers need to be good listeners

Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes' deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice

Jun 16 2017 11:44am

SRA moots paying student guinea pigs to sit pilot super-exam

Want to get paid to take the SQE?

Jun 15 2017 1:23pm

Event: How to make it as a City lawyer

Solicitors from Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students -- for free -- ahead of the training contract application deadline

Jun 15 2017 10:51am

Law lectures will not survive much longer, says Oxford academic

Make way for the internet age of legal education

Jun 15 2017 9:04am

Oxford law grads pocket £20,000 a year more than Durham and Warwick peers

Earning power: Oxbridge dominant over Russell Group rivals, new stats show

Jun 14 2017 12:39pm

How good was your GDL? Take the Legal Cheek 60 second survey

Rate your law conversion provider

Jun 14 2017 10:28am

Solicitor super-exam WILL change how big City law firms hire trainees, insists SRA boss

Comments come in response to suggestion by Hogan Lovells chief that scrapping LPC may not have major impact

Jun 14 2017 9:28am