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

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

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

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

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

Vlogging future magic circle trainee offers insight into law exam prep
LPCer gets genuine in new week-in-the-life vlog series

Mega-viral tweet asks ‘how do Iawyers not cry when arguing’?
The Twittersphere responds

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

Freshfields becomes second magic circle firm to bump GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
Just weeks after boosting NQ pay to £100,000

York Uni apologises after law students receive wrong exam paper twice
Public law questions dished out on two occasions during EU assessment

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

Linklaters launches undergrad sponsorship for low-income students
£6,000 grant and work experience up for grabs

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

Law graduate claims good looks ruined her career
Too attractive for a training contract?

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

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

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

Question mark remains over super-exam Welsh translation
Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims

‘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

Meet the Instagrammers making law revision look glam
If you don’t snap your studies, are you even revising?