Tag: Students
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?
‘We have an obligation to make entry to the bar as fair as possible’
Cornerstones Barristers’ Andrew Lane reflects on his career to date and how barrister training should evolve to adequately prepare the next generation of advocates
SRA dismisses calls to reintroduce mandatory minimum trainee solicitor pay
JLD argued rookies risk 'exploitation' under work experience element of SQE -- but regulator doesn't agree
Clifford Chance increases GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
Exclusive: First magic circle firm to award five-figure sum
From lawyer to legal entrepreneur: You’re programmed to be risk averse — but you can’t fear failure
Mary Bonsor, co-founder and CEO of F-LEX, chats to Legal Cheek ahead of her appearance at the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019 on 22 May
Inns of Court unveil country’s cheapest barrister training course
Charity applying for sign-off on £13,000 course in major bar training shake-up
The role of diverse skills in the ‘radically different’ legal services of the future
LexisNexis director, Dani McCormick, talks about her path from a career in advertising to law to legal tech, and how different law might be in the future
London criminal law chambers pulls ‘unpaid’ internship
Exclusive: 9KBW places controversial expenses-only programme 'under review'