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Shearman & Sterling’s Women in Law conference in London explored ways to boost gender diversity at the top

Getting advice from experienced LGBT lawyers helped Miles Tonkin secure a training contract at Herbert Smith Freehills

How law students can make it into the legal profession without doing a training contract

The difficulties faced by RPC partner Parham Kouchikali -- who arrived in Britain aged eight unable to speak English -- have stayed with him in a positive way in his professional life

Students share howlers to mark Halloween

The definitive wannabe lawyer alphabet

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"Your differences can become your strength," says Hogan Lovells partner Tom Astle

Herbert Smith Freehills' Veronica Roberts on her journey from the local comprehensive to global law firm partner

Engaging students in society is key, says project manager of Citizenship Foundation's Lawyers in Schools programme

Fletchers chief Ed Fletcher recalls how a spinal cord injury gave him a clarity that would change the course of his career

ULaw employability chief John Watkins believes students overestimate some of their soft-skills

Hardwicke's two new tenants reveal how they made it to fully-fledged barrister status

Lord Neuberger and a panel of top solicitors and barristers offer students who don't fit the mould tips on how to get ahead in law

Inaugural Commercial Awareness Question Time takes place at London office of global firm

"It's not a marathon or a sprint, it's the 10,000 metres"

Norton Rose Fulbright newly qualified solicitor Tom Capel on how the hard-to-define concept beloved of law firms manifests itself in real life

Get to the front of the training contract queue, with free places for 25 students up for grabs

There's plenty of law summer placement life beyond the City of London

Leicester Uni law grad Hannah Blake used her Kaplan Law School LLM LPC scholarship as a springboard to a City training contract