Tag: Students
My journey from vac schemer to junior lawyer at a global law firm
Lauren Vallender discusses her route into White & Case’s energy, infrastructure and project finance team, ahead of her appearance at this afternoon's virtual student event
49 tips candidates need to know before starting as a trainee solicitor
Courtesy of five trainees at Shearman & Sterling
SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund
Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950
City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees
11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course
From airports in Croatia to railways in South Africa: the varied career of a global infrastructure lawyer
Pinsent Masons partner Sonal Shah contemplates her career journey to date and comments on how the infrastructure sector has fared throughout Covid-19
Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’
TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones
Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead
BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it
Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom
Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock
BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship
What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?
Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments
Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'
Why litigation is a game of chess
DWF senior associate Paul Maddock explains how his passion for board games helps in his day-to-day legal life
‘The hurdles I overcame on my path to partnership’
Squire Patton Boggs partner Michelle Adams didn’t get the A-Level grades she’d hoped for and started training at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis; here she talks to Legal Cheek Careers about navigating choppy waters to get to where she is today
‘Own your experience as a law career changer’
Mayer Brown trainee Cheryl Stevart discusses her career journey from publishing to corporate law, ahead of her appearance at this week's virtual student event
Ex-Eversheds trainee who sexually assaulted two sleeping students at house party jailed for 8 years
Attacked law student before groping another woman while she slept
Osborne Clarke picks BPP to prepare future trainees for SQE
First cohort starts September 2024
Fad or future? Elite law firms target tech-savvy students for non-law roles
A new wave of TC alternatives is sweeping the City
Why being a global finance lawyer is the next best thing to being a rockstar
Ashurst partner Navdeep Benning discusses her career journey to date
Viral TikTok of law student who continued moot comp despite passing out prompts debate over profession’s focus on resilience
Commenters warn of the dangers of 'glamourising' work ethic at the cost of health
College of Legal Practice strikes SQE training deal with Solent Law School
Tie-up will see super-exam prep offered as optional LLB module
Dublin’s legal scene through the eyes of two junior lawyers
McCann FitzGerald associates Olivia Wright and Darragh Caldwell offer their top application tips while reflecting on their own career journeys so far, ahead of the firm’s appearance at next week's Legal Cheek Irish Virtual Law Fair 2021