Tag: Interviews
An employability expert’s top tips for training contract applications and interviews
How to work out your practice interests and write convincingly
How to stand out this TC application season
ULaw Campus Dean Zoe King offers her advice on tackling applications, commercial awareness and interviews
99 training contract interview tips
With examples of the questions you need to know how to answer
11 things you need to do in a pupillage interview
Recently-qualified barrister Caoimhe McKearney advises
Exclusive interview: Felipe from The Apprentice on why he quit City law to follow his dreams
Former Latham & Watkins and Slaughter and May man learned lots from private practice, but doesn’t miss it — he tells Legal Cheek
How should chambers and law firms reject applicants?
Recently we received this email from a disgruntled pupillage-seeker… How did the pupillage-seeker know they...
Get a Training Contract Or Get Deported: The Fate Of The Foreign Law Graduate In The UK
If, like me, you’re not British or European and are applying for training contracts, you...
‘If At First You Don’t Succeed, Just Give Up’
Accepting you’re not going to get a pupillage can take more courage than blindly persisting...
Allen & Overy Solicitor Says It’s OK To Lie On Your CV
Allen & Overy solicitor Sheila Fahy has unwittingly provided wannabe magic circle lawyers with an...
‘Describe Your Parents Relationship’: Law Firm’s Interview Question To Training Contract Candidate
EXCLUSIVE: You hear all sorts of stories about partners asking outrageous, Borat-style questions during TC...
Chambers Failure To Provide Interview Feedback And Travel Costs Is ‘Unacceptable’
For most people, summer means festivals and perhaps a few weeks in Ibiza. Not so...
Interview Essentials: ‘It’s OK, Nobody Else Knows What the F*ck Commercial Awareness Is Either’
The other night I went out for a curry with a bunch of associate solicitors...
How To Get An Inns Of Court Scholarship
BPTC student Jack Smith, who’s in receipt of a full scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn, explains...
An LLM Can ‘Count Against’ Training Contract Hunters
LLMs are intellectually tough, time-consuming and not all law firms like them, warns LegalAware Students...
‘Fun And Freewheeling Parties’: Law Firm’s New Grad Recruitment Strategy
Specialist litigation firm Quinn Emanuel, whose London office has been prominent on the wave of...
Pupillage In The Provinces? Thanks, But No Thanks
London-based pupillage hunter OccupyTheInns thinks taking a position in the regions could be a bad...
Time For Barristers To Put Hands in Their Pockets
Pupillage should be the test for Bar wannabes, not interviews – and wealthy barristers should...