Category: Comment

Don’t launch solicitor super-exam during a global pandemic

Durham Uni Law School chief urges regulator to postpone SQE

Apr 7 2020 10:43am

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’

Jan 17 2020 9:02am

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

Dec 17 2019 11:22am

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

Dec 17 2019 8:46am

Legal sector’s ‘perfect storm’ moment could blow in new way of training lawyers

NewLaw needs new thinking on legal education, argues Nigel Savage

Nov 28 2019 2:15pm

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

Nov 19 2019 9:13am

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

Aug 15 2019 8:55am

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

Jul 30 2019 8:57am

Law and politics: Is the romance finally over?

Fewer MPs have a background in law

Jul 29 2019 9:12am

Complacent law schools are ripe for disruption

New Guardian rankings expose universities' vulnerabilities, argues expert

Jun 11 2019 10:07am

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

May 20 2019 8:55am

How Freshfields’ £100k NQ pay will change the profession

Magic circle embrace of MoneyLaw set to have far-reaching effects

May 15 2019 8:52am
SQE super-exam students solicitors

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!'

Apr 17 2019 8:35am

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

Apr 16 2019 10:10am

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

Feb 27 2019 8:59am

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

Jan 2 2019 10:30am

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

Oct 15 2018 10:16am

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

Sep 25 2018 9:01am