Legal Cheek Careers

The latest careers content in one place, plus events, key deadlines, campus ambassador programme details and the Legal Cheek Most Lists.

Event: How to become a projects lawyer – with Burges Salmon

Commercial Awareness Question Time comes to Bristol

Sep 26 2016 11:29am

How students can turn Brexit to their advantage when applying for training contracts

There’s never been a better time to impress with your commercial awareness

Sep 20 2016 10:45am

Life at the law centre — A trainee’s perspective

A Q&A with Laura Williams, trainee at South West London Law Centres

Sep 16 2016 2:24pm

Experience: I spent a month putting into practice the tort law I learnt on the GDL

Monica Davis shares her experience of doing a vac scheme at the UK's largest medical negligence law firm

Sep 15 2016 9:56am

Predictive coding: What it means for junior lawyers

Hardwicke barrister Michael Wheater demystifies the much talked-about artificial intelligence process that is set to sweep the legal profession

Sep 8 2016 1:21pm

We spoke to the Hogan Lovells junior solicitor who is helping the British Paralympic Association prepare for Rio

Newly qualified Lorn Joseph on the legal experience of a lifetime

Sep 6 2016 11:43am

Event: Brexit and the future — how global law firms deal with political uncertainty

Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers look ahead to a potentially eventful autumn; students ask the questions

Sep 5 2016 1:29pm

How to get a distinction on the LPC

BPP University Law School director of LPC programmes Jane Houston gives her ten top tips for success

Aug 11 2016 2:25pm

What it’s like to quit practising law aged 27 to do an LLM

City University Professor of International Economic Law David Collins has never looked back

Aug 9 2016 2:45pm

From professional footballer to lawyer

Legal Cheek Careers meets former Charlton and Leyton Orient midfielder Bradley Pritchard

Jul 28 2016 12:03pm

Experience: I have worked as a lawyer in Melbourne, Madrid and New York

Legal Cheek Careers meets Herbert Smith Freehills' well-travelled senior associate Marianna Schneider

Jul 27 2016 11:00am

Five things we wish we’d known when we were applying for training contracts

As numerous firms' deadlines for applications loom, two RPC trainees give the inside scoop on securing a TC

Jul 26 2016 9:19am

Open thread: How do I get a training contract?

Trainee solicitors advise

Jul 21 2016 12:46pm

Unconventional routes into the legal profession: from theatre set designer to planning lawyer

Burges Salmon partner Liz Dunn tells Legal Cheek Careers about her unlikely journey to the top of corporate law

Jul 20 2016 1:35pm

Video: How to make it as a City lawyer

Six top solicitors answer law students' questions about how they made it into the legal profession

Jul 11 2016 11:48am

Why ambitious junior lawyers need to create their own networks

King & Wood Mallesons partner Ajay Pathak shares what he has learned on his journey to the top

Jul 6 2016 11:11am

Being different makes you stronger: a newly qualified lawyer’s perspective

Diversity is a positive in the City, writes Hogan Lovells associate Amma Boakye

Jul 4 2016 2:08pm

9 things you need to know if you are applying for a training contract this summer

Norton Rose Fulbright's Andrew Roycroft shares what he has learned from participating in the graduate recruitment process

Jul 1 2016 11:23am