Tag: Students

Meet the infrastructure lawyers helping ‘Build back better’

A panel of experts from Pinsent Masons discuss their work and how it is helping drive the post-Covid economic recovery

Nov 5 2021 12:04pm
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Flexible training contract specialist signs SQE training deal with College of Legal Practice

Accutrainee to fund rookies through super-exam prep

Nov 5 2021 9:16am
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Should I do the LPC or SQE?

BPP’s Head of Outreach Jonny Hurst shares the drivers for students’ decision-making

Nov 3 2021 10:12am

Law student marries princess ‘but fails bar exam’

Mixed few days for Kei Komuro

Nov 2 2021 12:30pm

Ashurst to offer course in imposter syndrome

City firm looks to help aspiring lawyers set broader definitions of 'success' and 'accomplishment'

Nov 1 2021 12:33pm

Hot practice area focus: How I came to specialise in environmental law

With COP26 underway Gowling WLG partner Ben Stansfield reflects on his career journey to date and considers some of the developments at the forefront of planning and environmental law

Nov 1 2021 11:44am

Fieldfisher teams up with client Peloton to create ‘diversity vac scheme’

Two-week programme for aspiring lawyers from unrepresented groups

Nov 1 2021 9:25am

Navigating the shifting sands of competition law at a global firm

Ropes & Gray senior counsel Lisa Kaltenbrunner discusses upcoming regulatory changes and how she came to specialise in this exciting area of law

Oct 29 2021 11:38am

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

Oct 28 2021 11:15am

49 tips candidates need to know before starting as a trainee solicitor

Courtesy of five trainees at Shearman & Sterling

Oct 27 2021 11:49am
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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

Oct 27 2021 10:28am
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City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees

11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course

Oct 27 2021 9:22am

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

Oct 26 2021 12:07pm

Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’

TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones

Oct 26 2021 10:54am

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

Oct 25 2021 9:17am

Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom

Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock

Oct 22 2021 12:55pm

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?

Oct 22 2021 12:28pm

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'

Oct 22 2021 8:42am

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

Oct 21 2021 11:33am

‘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

Oct 20 2021 11:42am