Legal Cheek Careers
The latest careers content in one place, plus events, key deadlines, campus ambassador programme details and the Legal Cheek Most Lists.
The lowdown on US law firms in London
Shearman & Sterling lawyers give commercial awareness master class
The opportunities ahead for the Scottish legal market
Addleshaw Goddard lawyers discuss lawtech, Brexit and Indyref2
Student Event: Secrets to Success Leeds — with Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers, Womble Bond Dickinson and ULaw
Wednesday 11 December at ULaw Leeds; open to all students and graduates
How to found a start-up while working as a magic circle lawyer
Anup Mehta switched from Allen & Overy to its legal consulting arm, Peerpoint, and is now launching a parcel delivery venture
From science student to intellectual property lawyer
Mark Marfé, senior associate, Pinsent Masons, specialises in patent litigation, and often acts for companies in the high tech space
How to successfully navigate a pupillage interview
Legal Cheek Careers caught up with ULaw future pupil programme coordinator Mark Jones
How my paralegal role acted as the perfect stepping stone to pupillage success
Henderson Chambers’ Harrison Denner shares his top tips
The Green Economy through the eyes of a planning lawyer
Anna Cartledge, a partner at Shoosmiths, sheds light on brick shortages, electronic cars and life in Birmingham
From Leeds University law grad to Linklaters fintech partner
Mark Drury survived the financial crisis and then surfed the tech wave
The key qualities every clinical negligence lawyer must possess
Irwin Mitchell partner Emma Rush discusses communication skills and client empathy
‘We’re not just paying lip service to innovation — it’s part of our culture’
CMS real estate senior associate Simon Porter talks tech ahead of our ‘Innovation and the law’ event in Edinburgh
Aspiring lawyers can’t afford to be technophobes
Simon George, associate professor and director of ULTRA, the ULaw Technology Research Academy, highlights why it’s important for wannabe solicitors to engage with tech
How I became a commercial litigator in the City
Michael O’Donoghue, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, discusses his day job and the firm’s tech strategy
My life as a corporate finance lawyer advising tech companies and entrepreneurs
Ahead of her appearance at ‘The Northern Powerhouse economy of the 2020s’, Addleshaw Goddard’s Carly Gulliver shares an insight into fast-growing practice
What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers
Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade
Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani
Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs
Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons
City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall
Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness
The climate crisis and the role of lawyers
A trio of Burges Salmon lawyers explain how the push towards a greener economy is affecting their clients
‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’
Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties
The solicitor super-exam and the opportunities ahead for aspiring lawyers
Victoria Cromwell, head of SQE at BARBRI, discusses lawtech and legal education