Tag: Students

‘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

Open thread: What’s it like to be a barrister?

Share your experiences with the next generation of bar wannabes below the line

Jun 13 2017 9:55am

Experience: I did a secondment at a global media company during my City training contract

Reed Smith trainee Roch Glowacki reflects on what he learned during six-months at firm’s client

Jun 12 2017 2:06pm

The first ever legal careers network for STEM students who want to become lawyers has been launched

STEM Future Lawyers will bring together top law firms and the best science, technology, engineering and maths students

Jun 12 2017 9:22am

CEO of BPP Law School steps down

Land law barrister at the university’s helm for 20 years

Jun 9 2017 4:42pm

Over a third of new law students are from ethnic minority backgrounds

Law far more ethnically diverse than other humanities-based subjects

Jun 9 2017 9:19am

Shearman & Sterling lawyers look beyond General Election to the main event: Brexit

The real challenges will come once May v Corbyn battle is over

Jun 8 2017 9:50am

The acquisition of Visa Europe — from a trainee’s perspective

Macfarlanes NQ Alex Evans looks back on the higlight of his training contract

Jun 6 2017 1:58pm

Training contract numbers soar to highest level since financial crash

Places up two years on the bounce for the first time since the financial crash

Jun 5 2017 3:10pm

How the Norton Rose Fulbright energy law LLM scholarship is helping to take a young lawyer’s career to the next level

Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute

Jun 5 2017 12:44pm

Exclusive: The Inns of Court are preparing to launch a new BPTC

Inns 'seriously considering' new course, but will they go it alone or get a university involved?

Jun 5 2017 10:47am

LSE masters exam features question about ‘President Trumpet’ building a giant wall

Exclusive: Assessment even contains a Donald-esque tweet

Jun 2 2017 9:14am