Category: Comment
Don’t launch solicitor super-exam during a global pandemic
Durham Uni Law School chief urges regulator to postpone SQE
‘Get on with it — uncertainty costs’, SQE co-creator tells regulators at LegalEdCon North
Crispin Passmore warns against super-exam delay
How the SQE shifts power from law firms to students
‘No longer can a law firm dangle a training contract in front of paralegals or insist that getting a job in a firm’s onshore centre is not a route to qualifying’
What Boris Johnson’s big majority means for the legal profession and those seeking to enter it
Focus on innovation, the North and alternatives to higher education could impact lawyers
Richard Susskind: My case for online courts
Profession’s foremost technology expert offers up his digital vision of the future, in exclusive article for Legal Cheek
Legal sector’s ‘perfect storm’ moment could blow in new way of training lawyers
NewLaw needs new thinking on legal education, argues Nigel Savage
Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education in decades’
The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC
Law firms are run by ‘dinosaurs’ looking to exploit ‘desperate’ grads
‘I cannot wait to qualify and change professions’, says anonymous rookie solicitor Dejected Trainee
I bought a Gucci handbag and pretended to like rugby in a bid to fit in with my magic circle peers
Career success shouldn't come at the sacrifice of being yourself, says City lawyer turned career coach Husnara Begum
Law and politics: Is the romance finally over?
Fewer MPs have a background in law
Complacent law schools are ripe for disruption
New Guardian rankings expose universities' vulnerabilities, argues expert
I completed an unpaid internship — they’re not the problem
Unremunerated roles 'symptomatic of the general crisis at the criminal bar', says one wannabe barrister
How Freshfields’ £100k NQ pay will change the profession
Magic circle embrace of MoneyLaw set to have far-reaching effects
Under-promoted, oddly-timed and confusing to outsiders: why the bar is not making the most of its scholarships
There’s £5 million, for those in the know
I was among the first to sit the SQE pilot — here’s what I thought
‘The MCQ format was very patronising and far too easy. It was like a dummies guide to the law!'
Why I went public with my mental health struggles
Freshfields lawyer Lloyd Rees on the reaction to his blog, the road to recovery and raising awareness
Robots are not coming to take our jobs — but they are changing the way we do them
Lawyers are no longer isolated providers of water-tight legal documents
Joshua Rozenberg’s predictions for 2019
Brexit will happen, along with some other rather important things, forecasts Britain’s leading legal commentator -- writing exclusively for Legal Cheek
Is the artificial intelligence emperor wearing any clothes?
An anonymous associate at a leading City of London law firm notes a disconnect between their experience on the ground and the tech marketing noise
The Kavanaugh saga: ‘Why the US system of appointing Supreme Court justices sucks’
Could it happen here in the UK?
Law, lager and lemonade: Is the legal sector over the limit?
We need to strike a healthy balance at legal events, says one future City trainee