Tag: Students

Wannabe solicitor’s career hopes in tatters after slapping woman in face with penis

Nottingham Trent student's lawyer dream almost certainly over after he fails to overturn sexual assault conviction

Oct 23 2014 3:17pm

Pistorius sentence sparks Twitter row over what five years really means

This morning’s ruling sees the “Bladerunner” taken down to the cells, but will it be the final curtain for a plethora of parody Twitter accounts?

Oct 21 2014 1:23pm

Allen & Overy salary rise pushes Slaughter and May to bottom of magic circle payscale

A&O is now the third best-paying out of the five magic circle firms — as elite end of law further detaches from rest of profession

Oct 17 2014 9:01am

Law school wars: DAC Beachcroft swaps Uni of Law for BPP

National firm's ten-strong annual trainee intake will attend rival provider

Oct 15 2014 4:13pm

Review: Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer very nearly got fired in first episode of The Apprentice

An anonymous law student reviews the performances of the two solicitors on last night's series ten opener

Oct 15 2014 12:02pm

Law student does moot dressed in Lord Harley-style ribbons

Lord Harley of Counsel may have just become a meme

Oct 13 2014 11:41am

Law students among the lowest earners in new graduate salary list

Even sociology graduates pull in more than their law counterparts — but figures vary widely between universities

Oct 13 2014 10:02am

Another firm closes doors to wannabe trainees who haven’t done its vac scheme

In a tough graduate job market, Mishcon de Reya has calculated that it can afford to make all new recruits do a placement at the firm

Oct 10 2014 10:03am

Research: Some City firms are not as white and male as you might think — but many still are

Exclusive Legal Cheek research reveals striking disconnect between representation of women at associate and partner levels alongside vastly different attitudes towards hiring ethnic minority lawyers

Oct 8 2014 9:19am

There are two solicitors on The Apprentice 2014 — and one is ex-Slaughter and May

St Albans family lawyer Lauren Riley and ex-Slaughter and May and Latham Watkins associate Felipe Alviar-Baquero to battle it out before Sir Alan in this year's show

Oct 7 2014 9:18am

The plight of the paralegal explained through memes

She dreamed of para para ... paralegaldise?

Oct 3 2014 9:51am

Addleshaw latest firm to release trainee retention figures — hitting 82%

National player retains marginally more autumn qualifiers than most rivals in further sign of tentative graduate recruitment market recovery

Oct 3 2014 9:31am

It looks like the drunken Kent Uni fresher who got stuck up a tree may have been a law student

Did booze-fuelled tree farce begin after unsuccessful attempt by student to use LLB credentials to gain access to Freshers Ball?

Oct 1 2014 9:14am

Keira Knightley clearly doesn’t realise how hard it is to get a training contract or pupillage

Actress says she'd advise her daughter to be a lawyer to avoid the "heartbreaking rejection" of life as an actor. Hmmm...

Sep 30 2014 1:30pm

Wannabe barrister takes break from BPTC to reflect on his job as an Ann Summers sex toy salesman

Has flamboyant TV barrister ‘Judge Rinder’ widened frame of reference for bar hopefuls seeking to stand out from the crowd?

Sep 30 2014 9:21am

Return of the Loadsamoney lawyers as magic circle partners enjoy extremely fine wines

Break out the red braces, start waving fistfuls of fifty pound notes and bray like something normally housed in a stables -- according to Freshfields, the good times are back

Sep 26 2014 9:58am

‘Why I’m handing out CVs underground’: jobless law grad who’s targeting Chancery Lane commuters speaks

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: UWE law graduate Bilal Rauf tells Legal Cheek about his maverick strategy to land a training contract

Sep 26 2014 9:02am

Should the legal apprenticeship age limit be scrapped?

Current rules discriminate against legal profession vocational course graduates; while the prospect of the non-university, loafing-on-sofa route to qualification looms

Sep 25 2014 2:19pm

Former wannabe barrister and bliss guru smashes into paralegal market

The man who made a mint from ghost-writing student essays and then provided good vibration lifestyle advice is now knocking out cut-price legal advice

Sep 25 2014 12:27pm