Tag: Students

Anglia Ruskin business grad who studied GDL and LPC to pursue ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree claim receives £61,000 payout

Pok Wong sued uni for false advertising and disputed ‘high-quality’ teaching

Jun 3 2019 11:12am

BCLP and Bindmans team up with Queen Mary to offer LLB students year-long paid placements

Russell Group uni builds on 2015 tie-up with Reed Smith

Jun 3 2019 9:08am

Tenant Fees Act 2019: Goodbye to unfair letting charges?

Agents have been allowed to charge exorbitant, arbitrary fees for too long, says future trainee solicitor Fraser Collingham

May 31 2019 12:25pm

Profession prepares for big changes in training of lawyers

Scrapping of LPC, shift to apprenticeships and focus on tech prompt enthusiasm and anxiety in equal measure

May 31 2019 11:15am

Career changers: 6 things you need to know before making the switch to law

Lawyers share their routes into the profession -- and what they learned along the way

May 30 2019 3:39pm

Vlogging future magic circle trainee offers insight into law exam prep

LPCer gets genuine in new week-in-the-life vlog series

May 30 2019 9:04am

Top QC details paid work experience offer in rebuke to chambers’ ‘unpaid’ internship

Jaime Hamilton offering £700 bursary plus travel expenses for two-week placement

May 28 2019 11:13am

York Uni apologises after law students receive wrong exam paper twice

Public law questions dished out on two occasions during EU assessment

May 24 2019 8:47am

Telling lawyers to ‘toughen up’ isn’t the answer

PJ Kirby QC, joint head of Hardwicke, speaks to Legal Cheek ahead of his appearance this afternoon at The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019

May 22 2019 12:07pm

Linklaters launches undergrad sponsorship for low-income students

£6,000 grant and work experience up for grabs

May 22 2019 10:57am

What it’s like to lead one of the UK’s first teaching law firms

Laura Pinkney, head of Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre, chats to Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain

May 21 2019 11:05am

Law graduate claims good looks ruined her career

Too attractive for a training contract?

May 20 2019 12:20pm

Why the SQE won’t change Russell Group law degrees

Ken Oliphant, head of Bristol University Law School, explains why he foresees only tweaks around the edges to the traditional LLB

May 20 2019 11:28am

I completed an unpaid internship — they’re not the problem

Unremunerated roles 'symptomatic of the general crisis at the criminal bar', says one wannabe barrister

May 20 2019 8:55am

Why leaping into law as a career changer takes confidence

ULaw’s John Watkins talks transferrable skills and reveals how career changers can show risk-averse employers that they’re a safe option

May 17 2019 1:16pm

Question mark remains over super-exam Welsh translation

Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims

May 17 2019 8:44am

‘Tech doesn’t respect boundaries — it is universal and affects how we run all our practice areas’

Legal Cheek Careers chats to Clifford Chance partner and co-head of the technology practice, Jonathan Kewley, about the firm’s new lawtech training contract

May 16 2019 11:42am

Meet the Instagrammers making law revision look glam

If you don’t snap your studies, are you even revising?

May 14 2019 9:09am