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 diary of an employment lawyer
Legal Cheek Careers meets employment solicitor-turned ULaw Bloomsbury campus dean, Sandie Gaines, to discuss her career journey to date and application tips for summer training contract success
Event: Secrets to Success London — with Dechert, Ropes & Gray, Wiggin and ULaw
This Thursday evening in London
6 essentials for summer training contract hunters
What we learned from an hour listening to five top lawyers
Midlands to the Middle East: What I learned during my international secondment
Pinsent Masons associate Ian Morgan reflects on his time in Dubai and Doha
How lawtech looked in the 90s
ULaw campus dean Sarah Pooley reveals how innovation has long been a feature of legal practice and what it now means for future lawyers
Event: Secrets to Success Birmingham — with Pinsent Masons, Gowling WLG, DWF and ULaw
This Tuesday evening in Birmingham; open to all students
Top 4 entries for ‘My US Legal Icon’ Vlogging Prize
Contenders compete for return flight to New York in 60-second vlog off
Speakers announced for ‘Innovation and the law’ with Osborne Clarke, Shoosmiths, Blandy & Blandy and ULaw in Reading next week
Top lawyers to share views and advice at free Wednesday evening student event
Life as a junior lawyer during the financial crash
ULaw campus dean, Matthew Tomlinson, reveals why Leeds is on the up-and-up ahead of tomorrow’s ‘Secrets to Success’ event in the northern city
Career changers: 6 things you need to know before making the switch to law
Lawyers share their routes into the profession -- and what they learned along the way
Event: Secrets to Success Leeds — with Pinsent Masons, Walker Morris, Womble Bond Dickinson and ULaw
Tuesday 4 June in Leeds; open to all students
Telling lawyers to ‘toughen up’ isn’t the answer
PJ Kirby QC, joint head of Hardwicke, speaks to Legal Cheek ahead of his appearance this afternoon at The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
What it’s like to lead one of the UK’s first teaching law firms
Laura Pinkney, head of Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre, chats to Legal Cheek’s Aishah Hussain
Why leaping into law as a career changer takes confidence
ULaw’s John Watkins talks transferrable skills and reveals how career changers can show risk-averse employers that they’re a safe option
‘Tech doesn’t respect boundaries — it is universal and affects how we run all our practice areas’
Legal Cheek Careers chats to Clifford Chance partner and co-head of the technology practice, Jonathan Kewley, about the firm’s new lawtech training contract
‘We have an obligation to make entry to the bar as fair as possible’
Cornerstones Barristers’ Andrew Lane reflects on his career to date and how barrister training should evolve to adequately prepare the next generation of advocates
The role of diverse skills in the ‘radically different’ legal services of the future
LexisNexis director, Dani McCormick, talks about her path from a career in advertising to law to legal tech, and how different law might be in the future
Australian student survey: Win a coffee with a partner at a leading global law firm in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane
Calling all Legal Cheek student readers Down Under!
What a transatlantic tie-up means for trainees and junior lawyers
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partner Tara Newell reveals the benefits of a mega-merger ahead of the firm’s Meet Your Future social media competition
The SQE and the challenges ahead
ULaw’s director of business development, Morette Jackson, reveals how law firms are reacting to the new solicitor super-exam
How one law school is preparing for the biggest shake-up to legal education in a generation
Andrew Chadwick, dean of BPP University Law School, discusses the SQE, technology and the opportunities ahead