Category: Comment

Ex-corporate lawyer Charlene Gisele reflects on her own mental health struggles while offering her top tips to prevent work-related exhaustion before it starts

Have we replaced the authority of God with algorithmic-decision-making?

One City lawyer sets out some of the factors they took into consideration before making the switch 🇬🇧 ➡️ 🇺🇸

As City lawyers today teem over their financial results, future trainee Will Holmes suggests they should spare a thought -- a prayer even -- for the Satanic lawyer and the creation of purgatory

Is the Roman notion of jurisdiction the final piece of puzzle?

Money and law have always had a complicated relationship

BTC graduate and aspiring barrister Kieran Alker recounts his 'frustrating' experience and suggests a way to improve the process

Boris Johnson, meet the Catholic Relief Act

'Law firms live by the sword of positive client feedback, but they also die from the sword of bad press', writes employment solicitor Chris Hadrill

In the wake of that Lord Kilclooney 'Indian' tweet, mature law student Laurence Cooper casts a critical eye over parliamentary standards

The PM is an honorary bencher. Some 'do-gooder' needs to put a stop to that, says mature law student Laurence Cooper

Unlike his recent predecessors, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland wants to see more people in prison, says CJ McKinney

What comes after the pandemic may not be good for MoneyLaw salaries

As law schools shift exams online in the wake of the coronavirus, one aspiring lawyer reveals her first encounter was 'mostly positive'

Co-founders of 'Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow' Olivia Reily and Owen Hussey on the challenges they faced and why they set-up their new diversity platform

Young Legal Aid Lawyers urge Legal Cheek readers to back motion to block regulations

We will seek to ensure online assessment arrangements are fair for all, writes BSB director of regulatory operations Oliver Hanmer

Former BPTC student and future barrister Sarah Ismail considers why

'I feel I have effectively been forced out of the profession', a junior family solicitor writes

They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures

Pandemic puts question mark over corporate law's love-affair with swanky spaces