Tag: Students

£6,000 grant and work experience up for grabs

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

Too attractive for a training contract?

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

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

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

Failure to do so may be unlawful, academic claims

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

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

Cornerstones Barristers’ Andrew Lane reflects on his career to date and how barrister training should evolve to adequately prepare the next generation of advocates

JLD argued rookies risk 'exploitation' under work experience element of SQE -- but regulator doesn't agree

Exclusive: First magic circle firm to award five-figure sum

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

Charity applying for sign-off on £13,000 course in major bar training shake-up

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

Exclusive: 9KBW places controversial expenses-only programme 'under review'

Exclusive: Trainees start on £39k rising to £60k on qualification

But business students have the most grumbles

Attorney General among star-studded ceremony line-up

Global legal education provider to teach out of London's Dickson Poon School of Law from September

Human rights specialist Jessica Jackson dishes the goss