Tag: Students

Event series: Secrets to Success — in London, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham
Legal Cheek Live joins forces with The University of Law and a host of leading law firms to take our commercial awareness series on the road

BPP launches legal tech module for LPC students
Law school giant in digital skills push

Should I tell law firms I have Asperger’s syndrome when applying for vac schemes?
I don’t want them to think I can’t cope with the stress

Future trainee shuns law’s Hunger Games vibe with helpful blog on how to get a training contract
Even includes an application cliché bingo

You’ll do better in morning exams than afternoon ones, new book reveals
Judges are more lenient then too

KFC partners with Eversheds Sutherland to offer first-ever training contract
Fast-food chain joins likes of The Body Shop and Tesco

Five pupillage application form essentials
Three pupil barristers at Hardwicke reveal how they made it over the line

All the annoying people you’ll have the displeasure of meeting at university law careers events
From the flirts to the narcissists, don’t be these people

Revealed: The best barristers’ chambers for training
The results of the Legal Cheek Pupil and Junior Barrister Survey are in

All experience is good experience for training contract hunters
From uni DJ to online sales consultant to gangland pro bono -- Womble Bond Dickinson's Sam Dixon sampled it all en route to becoming a restructuring lawyer

Final year becomes third Bristol law student in 14 months to die in suspected suicide
University encourages students and staff affected by news to contact support services

‘I’m a future magic circle trainee, yet I’ll be living in an Airbnb during my LPC because I can’t afford London rent’
One Legal Cheek commenter shares their take on law firm maintenance grants

What I’ve learned as a lawyer in the magic circle, a US firm and now at PwC
Keily Blair looks back on a high-flying career to date -- that began unconventionally with moving country to study a law degree aged 17 at a non-Russell Group University

Solicitor super-exam proposals submitted for formal approval
Regulator’s plan to scrap GDL and LPC moves one step closer to reality

London law student handed suspended sentence over part in £750,000 fraud
‘Severe question mark’ over her legal career

Number of new law students up by one fifth since tuition fee hike
Exclusive: Law bucks the trend as overall student numbers fall

Clifford Chance and Freshfields boost LPC grants by 43%
Exclusive: £3,000 more than Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Slaughter and May

What we learned about fintech from some of the biggest brains at Clifford Chance
Technology presents both risks and opportunities to traditional financial institutions -- and their lawyers need to help them stay ahead of the curve

I run my own business and I’m worried it will impact my training contract chances
I don't want firms to think I won't accept authority

My life as a commercial barrister in Manchester
It’s worth considering the advantages of joining a set in a major city outside London as opposed to doing pupillage in the capital, says Exchange Chambers' David Williams