Author: The Careers Team

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

7 ways that being a law firm campus manager helps you to bag a vac scheme

Herbert Smith Freehills' outgoing campus managers told us how the role contributed to them securing spring and summer placements

Apr 27 2015 2:40pm

9 things we learned from the #PupillageApps Q&A

The best bits from last night's Twitter discussion about how to bag a pupillage

Apr 10 2015 1:30pm

Video: Where will the next generation of advocates come from and how will they train?

The full feisty discussion of last week's Legal Cheek Careers Q&A at Gray's Inn is now live on YouTube -- watch it below

Apr 1 2015 11:06am

This is what students learn on first year open days

Five students who attended Shearman & Sterling's 'Head Start' first year open day last week tell Legal Cheek what they found out about the legal profession

Mar 31 2015 2:25pm

10 must-dos for Pupillage Gateway applicants from the barristers who assess them

Avoid jokes and jargon, embrace business blurb and Blaise Pascal -- and spend ages filling out the form

Mar 20 2015 1:20pm

How to get a law school scholarship

The students who bagged scholarships from BPP Law School and the Inns of Court reveal how they did it

Feb 24 2015 12:04pm

How to nail an application to a non-Pupillage Gateway chambers

There are eight top 30 chambers' pupillage application deadlines in the next month

Jan 13 2015 9:54am

7 life hacks for training contract hunters

A recent Aspiring Solicitors careers day at Kaplan Law School saw two former City law insiders reveal some of the secrets to landing a TC at a top firm

Aug 18 2014 1:52pm