Tag: Students
Comments of the week
The best below-the-line thoughts from the last five days
Supervisor tells pupil she looks ‘quite f*ckable’ — report highlights sexism at bar
Two surveys this week illustrate just how much work bar leaders have to do to drive out the Fred Flintstone attitudes
Fewer students apply for law school scholarships than you think
Leicester Uni law grad Hannah Blake used her Kaplan Law School LLM LPC scholarship as a springboard to a City training contract
The GDL is for ‘spineless’ losers, says Bristol Uni law student
Graduate Diploma in Law is for those with a half-hearted interest in legal profession, claims LLBer, amid decline in popularity of conversion route
From wasps to car-hire — junior lawyers need to diversify
There are many ways to exhibit commercial awareness...
Financial Conduct Authority trainee flogs top City law firm training contract application answers
Exclusive: Graduate offers students an "unfair advantage" in return for cash
Bar Council must delay plans to move Pupillage Gateway deadline
Clarity is urgently needed instead of tumbleweed blowing across the website’s alerts page
Comments of the week
The best from below the line
Uni of Law LPC student bids to win Miss England title before qualifying as a lawyer
Durham grad speaks to Legal Cheek about battle to land a training contract -- or perhaps even a pupillage
Appeal to continue search for BPP LPC grad missing while on diving holiday
London church launches petition to encourage Canadian authorities to find Timothy Chu, who was set to start training contract this September
A new law school is being built in a bunker under Lincoln’s Inn to deliver a not-for-profit BPTC
Exclusive: Inns of Court fight back against private law schools
Two City firms back latest bid to ease law firm recruitment path for socially underprivileged
Herbert Smith Freehills and Travers Smith join three magic circle players in mentoring and advice scheme
The bar’s battle against elitism
Baby boomers wake up to urgent need to help millennials
Vac schemes: students do everything but legal work
As the summer stints draw to a close, Legal Cheek asks the pivotal question: did anyone do any legal work?
Arts students work harder than law students, stats reveal
A leading education think tank suggests wannabe lawyers might not have it as tough as they make out to counterparts in other disciplines
Bar student from failed judicial review advertises himself as an ‘employment lawyer’
Exclusive: Religious minister and former car-worker-turned BPTC student caught up in ongoing row over barrister title
Anger and confusion as hundreds of students unexpectedly fail the BPTC ethics module
Exclusive: Litigation is in the air as the Bar Standards Board refuses to review the marks
Uni of Law tight-lipped over its bid to take on business school market
Europe’s biggest law school launches De Broc; but silent on student numbers
Pupillage Gateway moved to January so students know if they have chambers place before committing to BPTC
Exclusive: Finally, a move to protect wannabe barristers
Booked up
Can anyone beat this pile of law tomes?
The award-nominated pro bono scheme that makes students pay to plug the legal aid gap
A 'highly commended’ programme charges law students nearly £400 in training fees to gain courtroom experience