Tag: Students

If there was an election tomorrow, who would you vote for?

With rumours of a snap election on 4 May gathering pace, take Legal Cheek’s survey here

Mar 20 2017 10:40am

Average BPTC fee drops by just £72 as law schools release 2017/18 prices

ULaw cuts course cost by 8% but Northumbria and Cardiff increase theirs by 6%

Mar 17 2017 1:51pm

And the winners of the Legal Cheek Awards are…

Osborne Clarke and Baker McKenzie each bag brace as Burges Salmon scoops overall award and Slaughter and May wins ‘Most Admired’

Mar 17 2017 12:54pm

Extract from Lord Denning book describing Sir William Blackstone as ‘too fat’ surfaces online

Statute books' namesake apparently did 'no exercise' and 'ate too much'

Mar 17 2017 9:05am

Linklaters completes magic circle’s spring retention season with solid 86% result

The outfit's new associates will be based in London, Hong Kong and Dubai

Mar 16 2017 1:13pm

Norton Rose Fulbright unveils spring retention rate of 83%

Twenty trainees have accepted full-time associate roles at the global giant

Mar 16 2017 10:06am

15 hilarious Legal Cheek Facebook posts to celebrate hitting 50,000 likes

A big thank you to all our readers for helping us reach this social media milestone

Mar 15 2017 12:36pm

An open letter to future lawyers, from a future lawyer

A trainee at a top City outfit has something she wants to share

Mar 14 2017 9:07am

LGBT moot: BPP Law School snatches victory from 2016 winners Oxford University

The competition was judged by some of the country's leading human rights specialists

Mar 13 2017 9:11am

Legal Cheek talks… ‘moaning millennials’

This week a trainee at a top City firm went public with her mortgage woes, but was she justified in doing so?

Mar 10 2017 4:20pm

The army’s loss is the law’s gain

Marisa Hornabrook is looking forward to her legal life with Burges Salmon -- and it all began with an Insight Day more than three years ago

Mar 10 2017 11:01am

Oxford trumps Cambridge in world law school rankings, again

Eight UK institutions land top 50 slots, a drop on last year's results

Mar 9 2017 11:00am

The Sesh Act 2017: Exeter law students call on drafting skills to invent new drinking ‘legislation’

'All Core Squad members must dab upon hearing a dropping beat of a lit song'

Mar 9 2017 9:17am

BPP University chief exits after 20 years at legal education giant

Carl Lygo started as a tutor at the law school in the 1990s

Mar 8 2017 6:43pm

Five things we learnt from ‘How to become a serious injury lawyer’

Panel of serious injury and medical negligence solicitors and barristers shares its pearls of wisdom

Mar 8 2017 4:04pm

Concerns over SRA solicitor super-exam proposals reach House of Lords

Lord Low of Dalston questioned whether the new vocational training regime would have a negative impact on law schools

Mar 7 2017 5:44pm

Retention rate row: Simmons & Simmons remains tightlipped over NQ temporary contract accusations

International outfit trumpeted an 80% spring score last week

Mar 7 2017 1:54pm

Why the ascendence of AI can benefit young lawyers

RPC’s Daniel Wyatt on how the Pyrrho case is redefining what it means to be a litigation lawyer

Mar 7 2017 12:48pm

Carmelite cock-up: Chambers ‘incorrectly’ invites aspiring barristers to interview

Exclusive: The set blamed it on Pupillage Gateway problems

Mar 7 2017 11:45am

Video: Students wow Lady Hale with BPTC rap to Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’

The deputy Supreme Court president said she ‘enjoyed’ it

Mar 7 2017 9:03am