Tag: Students

Where will corporate law firms be ten years from now?

Pinsent Masons partner Richard Masters draws on 30 years of practice to forecast what comes next

Jul 10 2017 10:08am

Shearman & Sterling keeps 13 out of 15 trainees

Their pay will now more than DOUBLE from £50k to £105k

Jul 10 2017 9:17am

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