Author: The Careers Team

Video: Why the legal profession needs people who see the world differently

Watch 'Legal Cheek Live, with Lord Neuberger' below

Oct 19 2015 5:34pm

Lawyers wanted to stem rise of crime in schools

Engaging students in society is key, says project manager of Citizenship Foundation's Lawyers in Schools programme

Oct 8 2015 4:00pm

How wannabe lawyers can become employable

ULaw employability chief John Watkins believes students overestimate some of their soft-skills

Oct 2 2015 11:39am

How to survive the pupillage Hunger Games

Hardwicke's two new tenants reveal how they made it to fully-fledged barrister status

Sep 30 2015 12:33pm

Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers field financial and legal news questions from 40 students

Inaugural Commercial Awareness Question Time takes place at London office of global firm

Sep 24 2015 12:15pm

Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time at Norton Rose Fulbright

Get to the front of the training contract queue, with free places for 25 students up for grabs

Sep 1 2015 7:00pm

What you learn during a vac scheme at a medical negligence law firm

There's plenty of law summer placement life beyond the City of London

Aug 25 2015 1:20pm

Fewer students apply for law school scholarships than you think

Leicester Uni law grad Hannah Blake used her Kaplan Law School LLM LPC scholarship as a springboard to a City training contract

Jul 23 2015 12:41pm

How studying a language with a law degree can set you apart from the crowd

Cara Goldthorpe talks to Legal Cheek Careers about being crowned "Law Undergraduate of the Year"

Jul 22 2015 11:46am

From asylum seeker to legal apprentice

Years of fighting to stay in Britain got Muna Ahmed interested in the law

Jul 20 2015 12:59pm

The bar’s battle against elitism

Baby boomers wake up to urgent need to help millennials

Jul 15 2015 2:22pm

What it was like to act on a bust-up between naturists that reached the Court of Appeal

Hardwicke barrister Andy Creer discusses acting for Hertfordshire naturist village Spielplatz Estate in a tenancy dispute with a member couple

Jul 8 2015 2:13pm

We are holding a Twitter Q&A about how to ace a training contract application on Wednesday at 1pm

Experts on hand to advise in hour-long session open to all

Jul 6 2015 2:49pm

9 essentials that successful training contract applicants grasp

It's often the subtle things that mark out candidates taken on by leading firms

Jun 29 2015 1:44pm

How to fund your way through the BPTC

By bagging two scholarships and working part-time, University of Law bar graduate Sam Frost was able to keep costs down as he pursued his barrister ambitions

Jun 24 2015 2:25pm

5 things career changers need to know about getting a training contract at a top firm

Shearman & Sterling's London open day for career changers debunked some popular myths

Jun 16 2015 2:46pm

Podcast: Will Mayer Brown’s new earn-while-you-learn programme kill the training contract?

Project mastermind Danielle White on a new way into the City that could change everything

Jun 15 2015 3:05pm

What it was like to work on the deal that saw craft beer go mainstream

Hogan Lovells trainee Alex Cox was on the team acting for SABMiller in its acquisition of Meantime

Jun 12 2015 1:03pm

Life in a law firm: ‘Prepping to go to Russia #fridaynightmare #byebyeweekend’

RPC trainee Sarah Pearson on what it’s like to drop everything and head to St Petersburg for work

May 28 2015 2:19pm

How law can set you up for an alternative career

Banker Miranda Brawn and Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge chat about what they learnt from law school

May 26 2015 4:30pm