Author: Aishah Hussain

My journey from trainee to partner
Baker McKenzie’s Jeremy Levy looks back at his path to partnership

British 22-year-old lawtech entrepreneur raises £3.7 million from Facebook and Airbnb backers to help fund ‘robot lawyer’ app
Joshua Browder secures big financial boost

Future Ashurst trainee solicitor has book published by Stormzy
Taking Up Space explores what it means to be a black girl studying at university

How I leveraged my foreign language skills to secure a City training contract
Lewis Fairfax, corporate litigator at Hogan Lovells, chats to Legal Cheek's Aishah Hussain ahead of his appearance at next Wednesday’s ‘Inside Track: How to become a City lawyer' event

Linklaters becomes final magic circle firm to up NQ pay package to £100,000
City pay war continues

Oxford Uni beats Cambridge and LSE in law grad earnings league table with average salary of £67,200
Stats focus on pay packets five years post-graduation

Leeds Beckett law graduate set to enter Love Island villa
Lavena Back completed a mini-pupillage at Doughty Street Chambers

YouTuber parodies Kim Kardashian applying to Harvard Law School
Comedian Benito Skinner plays out infamous Legally Blonde video application scene

How tech is changing the way trainees work
Four lawyers cut through the hype at our latest student event in Reading

Allen & Overy ups NQ solicitor package to £100,000 as City pay war intensifies
Six-figure sum includes sign-on bonus

Travers Smith keeps 17 out of 21 London qualifying trainees
Retention result of 81%

Hogan Lovells ups newly qualified pay to £90k plus bonus in package worth up to £117k
Exclusive: Transatlantic firm makes MoneyLaw move

Junior lawyers seek to have approval of the SQE overturned
Letter to Justice Committee aims to skewer super-exam

RPC posts low 42% autumn retention rate
Five out of 12 qualifying trainees kept on

BPP University to be sold
Law school set to change hands again in big money deal

The diary of an employment lawyer
Legal Cheek Careers meets employment solicitor-turned ULaw Bloomsbury campus dean, Sandie Gaines, to discuss her career journey to date and application tips for summer training contract success
Henry Hendron returns to practice three years after drug conviction
Barrister was suspended in 2016 after admitting possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply following boyfriend's death

Judge Rinder to give his take on worldly affairs in new TV series
The Rob Rinder Show will air on Channel 4 later this year

The Secret Barrister reveals pain at not being able to publicly celebrate success
Anonymous author wishes they could lap up glory in person

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