Tag: Students

Cambridge law student filmed on Snapchat torching £20 note in front of homeless man

He was wearing a bow tie and tails when he did it

Feb 10 2017 9:32am

Berwin Leighton Paisner gears up for Manchester training contract launch

But places will (for now) only be open to staff up North

Feb 9 2017 2:13pm

The true state of the BPTC, from someone who has recently gone through it

A Legal Cheek commenter shares their story

Feb 9 2017 9:06am

How I became a City law firm partner at just 36

Hogan Lovells' Richard Goss shares his tips for aspiring lawyers

Feb 8 2017 1:36pm

Is a training contract the only way?

I’m doing a law degree, but the CILEx route is pulling me in

Feb 7 2017 10:10am

BPP Law School owner Apollo Education Group completes £760 million sale

Private investors snap up US education giant

Feb 6 2017 11:05am

The opportunities that the Northern Powerhouse will create for future lawyers

Today’s law graduates will lead the delivery of huge transportation projects like HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, says Bond Dickinson partner Kevin Bell

Feb 2 2017 1:13pm

Mayer Brown to re-launch ‘articled route to qualification’ as solicitor apprenticeship

Global firm tweaks school-leaver programme to fit government scheme

Feb 2 2017 11:37am

Why de-stigmatising anxiety and doubt at law school will make for less stressed-out lawyers

Nipping it in the bud early is the answer, says LSE LLB-er Josh Dowson

Feb 2 2017 9:16am

How to seize opportunity in an uncertain world

Travers Smith lawyers on the importance of nimbleness, good judgement and confidence in engaging with technology

Feb 1 2017 2:39pm

Beware the bursting of law’s artificial intelligence bubble

Legal tech is a long story of incremental change, not revolution

Jan 31 2017 9:29am

Exclusive: Richard Susskind tells law schools to future-proof students with tech modules

Tom Connelly and Katie King interview the legal profession's foremost technology expert

Jan 30 2017 9:59am

Student makes headlines after revealing he’s suffered racist abuse at Bristol law school

Russell Group university has launched an investigation

Jan 27 2017 12:27pm

Subpar A-levels or my ex-poly uni: What’s preventing me from getting a training contract at a top firm?

I have a first class construction degree and big ambitions

Jan 27 2017 10:29am

Bar Council calls for BTPC cost reduction as it slams BSB’s training reform proposals

Representative and regulator clash over barristers' education

Jan 26 2017 11:18am

Brexit legal challenge barrister to launch pro bono project to keep government in check

"I feel uncomfortable with the direction our country is going in", says Jolyon Maugham QC

Jan 25 2017 3:33pm

The reality of working as a paralegal while completing the LPC

Fletchers’ Bethany Hodgkins on juggling work and study

Jan 25 2017 12:32pm