Tag: Graduates
Time For Barristers To Put Hands in Their Pockets
Pupillage should be the test for Bar wannabes, not interviews – and wealthy barristers should...
At Least You’re Not an Italian Trainee Lawyer…
As English law students worry about the possible scrapping of the minimum trainee solicitor salary,...
If You Can’t Bag a Pupillage in England Can You Do it Abroad?
Unable to secure a pupillage in London, Shafik Cassim has had more luck in Mauritius This...
What Are Law Recruitment Fairs For?
The trauma of the City law milkround drove law graduate Jade Ferguson to explore other...
Alternative Careers: Working for a Legal Charity
LawWorks’ Alasdair Stewart on why there’s more to life than training contracts When I started...
Don’t Suppose You Have Any Work Experience Opportunities? #GizAJob
Is it acceptable to ask for work experience through Twitter, asks GDL student David Woodall....
Why Law Graduates Can be Choosers
GDL graduate Cathryn Kozlowski on why she turned down a paralegal job With more and...
‘If You Want to Be an Actor and Earn Some Money, Become a Barrister’
Recently the actor Philip Glenister (pictured below), of Life on Mars and Mad Dogs fame,...
Legal Sector’s January Recovery Looks Brittle
Fundamentals behind recent improved trainee retention rates and pay rises are questionable, says Alex Aldridge...
How Would Stephen Hawking Have Fared as a City Lawyer?
Follow @legalaware The professor’s arrival would have delighted a corporate law firm PR team, but...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
Occupy London Fight to Conduct “Trials of The 1%”
Occupy London’s fledgling Occupy Justice campaign will find out this morning whether it can continue...
GRADUATE RECRUITMENT: ‘I WOULDN’T START FROM HERE’
Follow @legalaware Initiatives like PRIME won’t change fact current system writes off talented students far...
MORE TO LIFE THAN LAW
Follow @pondcat Law graduates’ transferable skills give them an advantage in the non-legal job market,...
TRAINING CONTRACTS NEVER GREW ON TREES
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Current tough job market made to sound even worse by frequent comparisons with...
MASTERING WHAT, EXACTLY?
Follow @FellowsAdam Bar graduate Adam Fellows isn’t convinced doing a masters degree is a good...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: TAKING A GAP YEAR TO SECURE A TRAINING CONTRACT
Law graduates Flora Duguid and Cathryn Kozlowski have both opted to take gap years before...
OCCUPY THE LAW SOCIETY! (in a nice way)
Follow @pondcat Other than a short-lived campaign to occupy the Inns of Court, there are...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...
MILLIONAIRE LAWYERS SHOULD FUND PUPILLAGES
Follow @OccupyTheInns Unless the legal profession acts, an occupation of the Inns of Court could...
£65K FOR A PUPILLAGE?!
Follow @FellowsAdam Adam Fellows considers the discrepancies between pupil earnings, and asks whether the Bar...