Tag: Students
Aspiring lawyers can’t afford to be technophobes
Simon George, associate professor and director of ULTRA, the ULaw Technology Research Academy, highlights why it’s important for wannabe solicitors to engage with tech
London chambers offers aspiring barristers a flavour of life at the bar through new pupillage podcast
Top tips and insights from 4 New Square tenants
How I became a commercial litigator in the City
Michael O’Donoghue, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, discusses his day job and the firm’s tech strategy
My life as a corporate finance lawyer advising tech companies and entrepreneurs
Ahead of her appearance at ‘The Northern Powerhouse economy of the 2020s’, Addleshaw Goddard’s Carly Gulliver shares an insight into fast-growing practice
What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers
Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade
BSB boosts minimum pay for pupil barristers following annual review
£18,866 in London and £16,322 elsewhere -- from 1 January 2020
Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani
Staffordshire Uni law grad representing himself persuades High Court to hear potentially historic benefits case — if he can raise the money
Michael Connor crowdfunding to keep anti-austerity case alive
Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic circle trainee life is like
Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording
Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’
The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC
Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs
Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons
City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall
Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness
STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law
7 pieces of #BoomerAdvice — law edition
'OK, Boomer' ?
The climate crisis and the role of lawyers
A trio of Burges Salmon lawyers explain how the push towards a greener economy is affecting their clients
Will my BTEC stop me getting a training contract with a top firm?
'Any help would be appreciated'
BPP confirms new bar course will be over £5,000 cheaper than current BPTC
£13,870 in London and £12,620 elsewhere
‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’
Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties
Legal Services Board: super-exam isn’t a done deal
Super-regulator flags concerns over quality and cost
Law students to be taught meditation to prepare for workplace stress
New initiatives will also include online 'mindfulness' module