Tag: Students

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

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