Keele University’s law society in training contract gavel clanger
Hysteria sets in on application deadline day?
Training contracts
A law student shares his last-minute TC application pain
Face down those procrastination demons
An open letter to training contract applicants everywhere
Being commercial can make up for a lot, but only if you understand what lawyers are selling
13 articles you must read if you’re applying for training contracts this summer
They will strengthen your applications
12 things students do on their vac schemes that have absolutely nothing to do with law
Gardening, ping pong and trips to Paris
Akin Gump trainees will now earn £100,000 across their two-year training contract
Increases of 12% in first year and 8% in second year
Travers Smith boosts pay for trainees and NQs
It has been a very good week for firms’ salary increases
Jones Day joins ‘100 Club’ with 18% pay boost for junior lawyers
Exclusive: The only way is up for trainee pay too
What you need to know before you apply for a training contract
The application deadlines are looming
US outfit Goodwin Procter launches London training contract schemes
News follows firm’s involvement in KWM trainee rescue mission
Training contract numbers soar to highest level since financial crash
Places up two years on the bounce for the first time since the financial crash
Sussex University law grad with a ‘passion for pro bono’ becomes BPP’s first ever trainee solicitor
News revealed in same week as annual student pro bono awards
Baker McKenzie keeps 13 of its 16 spring qualifiers
International outfit’s London office racks up 81% retention score
Berwin Leighton Paisner to offer City trainees secondments at its Manchester hub
As international outfit confirms first northern rookie lawyers
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang to cough up £250,000 as 25 future trainees accept training contract deferral deal
Legal Cheek revealed details of the offer back in November
Fieldfisher confirms Birmingham training contracts
City outfit’s newbies will start this September
Is a training contract the only way?
I’m doing a law degree, but the CILEx route is pulling me in
First batch of ‘incredibly lucky’ sponsored legal aid trainees become solicitors
Three-quarters stay on
Success: KWM confirms ALL current trainees have found new homes
Legal Cheek revealed rescue plan back in December
Subpar A-levels or my ex-poly uni: What’s preventing me from getting a training contract at a top firm?
I have a first class construction degree and big ambitions
There are nearly 4,000 more solicitors on the roll now than there were just after the Brexit referendum
But the number of lawyers with practising certificates has actually gone down
The wretched Watson Glaser test and why I think it should be scrapped
Why do grad recruiters still use the 85-year-old test?
King & Wood Mallesons Global launches in London – a day after UK arm goes under
New firm “not presently” taking old firm trainees
Why KWM’s demise isn’t the end of the world for its future trainees-to-no-longer-be
So law isn’t the safe career you thought
Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?
The haves and the have nots
Exclusive: King & Wood Mallesons to cancel all training contracts TOMORROW in prep for administration
Rookies to work as paralegals at new firms until SRA re-registers them
Research: Over a third of trainee solicitors are being paid BELOW the Law Society’s recommended minimum salary
Chancery Lane figure is being ignored by many firms
‘Cosmic Cadet’: Taylor Wessing embraces new space-themed computer game to assess training contract hopefuls
Clifford Chance and Dentons considering doing the same
Vac scheme applications Christmas stocking
More useful than chocolate and satsumas
Exclusive: Magic circle and other top City law firms to take on all of King & Wood Mallesons’ trainees
And stricken giant’s future trainees being pointed to priority TC vacancies
Low grades caused by health problems, what will law firms think?
I’m back on track now but worried the damage has already been done
CMS breaks silence on training contract deferrals… two weeks after Legal Cheek broke the story
Firm denies it has upped compensation payments in wake of online backlash
Legal Cheek talks… deferred training contracts and Supreme Court attacks
Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on CMS Cameron McKenna’s £8,000 gap year deal and the tabloids’ campaign against top judges
CMS offers future trainees cash to defer training contracts for 12 months
Exclusive: Firm to fund gap years as fallout from three-way merger with Nabarro and Olswang hits
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People are poking fun at The Times after it described the Offences Against the Person Act as a ‘Victorian-era law’ 
City solicitor turned East End teacher set to send 95% of pupils to Russell Group unis 
Paralegal who worked for two firms at the same time barred from legal profession 
Tieless at Travers: City law firm ditches corporate dress code in favour of new casual approach 
Strictly Come Dancing: Glasgow law graduate and ex-corporate lawyer Susan Calman announced as contestant
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‘I’ve got an offer from Slaughter and May AND Freshfields – who should I choose?’ (135)
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A reply to top lawyer David Greene, from the Cambridge students he called ‘arrogant’ (61)
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Mass exodus at Mansfield 1 Gray’s Inn Square as 20 barristers join Goldsmith Chambers (51)
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Future lawyer daughter of top QC in acid attack shame (41)
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City solicitor turned East End teacher set to send 95% of pupils to Russell Group unis (29)
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