Author: Adam Mawardi

Legal Entrepreneurs: How a Schillings trainee made it to The Independent — and then quit to start his own media law firm
Reviewed & Cleared CEO David Burgess shares what led him to leave his high-flying job and run a business

Jet flop! Law grad fired from The Apprentice after disastrous airline advertising task
Kurran Poon becomes the sixth candidate to leave the boardroom empty handed

Meet the vlogging future magic circle trainee who has racked up nearly 3 million views on YouTube
Bristol University law grad is closing in on 100,000 subscribers

The Apprentice: Lord Sugar tells law grad he ‘bottled it’ after backing out of project manager role
Kurran Pooni narrowly escapes firing

Legal Entrepreneurs: How I used my lawyer skills to start my own consultancy firm
Media specialist Nicola Hartley shares her journey and the things she learnt along the way

Future lawyers need role models to show them it’s possible
Black History Month: Ademola Bamgbose on his journey from Lagos to London -- and a training contract at Hogan Lovells

How I became a lawyer who advises self-driving car start-ups and other innovative companies
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest student commercial awareness event, with Burges Salmon in Bristol next week, we spoke to projects and transport lawyer Ed Barratt

The Apprentice: Law grad gets off to a shaky start after breaking arm wrestling another contestant
Just a week after the former ULaw LLBer forgot a candidate’s name during a business pitch

Legal Entrepreneurs: How I started my own reputation law firm
Media lawyer Matt Himsworth opens up about the freedom running your own business can bring

5 things that will inevitably happen to you during your first year of law school
From caffeine addiction to the horrors of R v Brown

High Court judges could see salaries swell by over 30% to £240,000 under new proposals
Will extra cash help improve judicial morale?

Gay cake judgment: Human rights barrister explains what you need to know about today’s big decision
Bakery's refusal to make same-sex marriage cake is NOT discriminatory, rules Supreme Court

What we learnt from Shearman & Sterling’s ‘Whiteboard Wednesday’
Video series for law students demystifies key commercial awareness concepts -- and new season will run this autumn

Mark Wahlberg’s routine: the law student version
9:30am -- miss land law lecture

7 things career changers can do to secure a training contract
ULaw careers consultant Candy Kobrak discusses transferable skills and application technique

Eversheds Sutherland signs deal with Slaughter and May-backed artificial intelligence software
Luminance was developed by Cambridge boffins

Chambers ‘Law Camp’ gives sixth-formers a taste of life at the bar
Students from underrepresented backgrounds assigned barrister mentors as part of myth-busting two-day workshop

Social media is everywhere — but the law governing it remains a speciality form of practice: Here’s how to get into it
ULaw associate professor Peter Goodchild looks back on a career that began as an IP and IT lawyer in the City

Facebook acquires Allen & Overy tech hub company for £26 million to help fight fake news
Artificial intelligence specialist was founded three years ago