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Life as a lawyer in Liverpool
Four experts make the case for starting your career in the North West
A former commercial litigator’s advice to training contract applicants
‘Your first job may not be your dream job but it could be a step you need to take to achieve your ambitions', says ULaw Reading campus manager Margaret Matthews
My life as a tech lawyer
Womble Bond Dickinson partner Alastair Mitton offers insights into the fast-moving sector
How Manchester Law School is helping to bring about a new industrial revolution in legal services
For Professor Andrew Francis the SQE is just one part of a much bigger story
Inside the new alternative law school backed by some of the profession’s biggest names
Ahead of LegalEdCon North on Thursday, College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor outlines a vision for the SQE that is winning prominent admirers
Outcry over LPC 30 years ago similar to SQE anxiety today, says BARBRI chief
Rather than being fazed by the super-exam, Sarah Hutchinson reckons the legal profession should view it as an exciting opportunity to improve education and training
From vac schemer to global law firm partner advising on big-ticket M&A deals
Claire O’Donnell, graduate recruitment partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, shares her top tips to writing vac scheme applications ahead of the firm’s 31 January deadline
‘As a 17 year-old secretary with no A-Levels and terrible GCSEs I didn’t expect to become a partner in a leading law firm’
Lisa Kemp, careers manager at The University of Law, reflects on a legal career that has taken many unexpected twists and turns
‘The way we do business will inevitably change — but we will always need lawyers’
ULTRA Project Director and The University of Law (ULaw) senior tutor, Patrick Grant, on the rise of technology in the legal profession and what it means for future lawyers
SQE offers chance to create high quality courses where technology enhances learning, says Nottingham Law School head of department
Matthew J. Homewood sketches out vision for Solicitors Qualifying Exam preparation course that draws on university’s strength in teaching and research
Hotshot solicitor apprentices are starting to give law graduates a serious run for their money
BPP head of legal apprenticeships Bruce Humphrey detects a 'cultural change' taking place
The case for solicitor apprenticeships
Ceri Evans, National Programme Director for Apprenticeships at The University of Law, discusses the benefits of the training contract alternative
From India’s biggest law school to Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner in London
Aprajita Dhundia shares her career story
From trainee to City law firm partner in ten years
Travers Smith’s Stephanie Lee reflects on her path to partnership and the high-stakes litigation that she’s worked on along the way
How to become a clinical negligence QC
Two Serjeants’ Inn barristers, who made it to the top via strikingly different routes, share their advice and reflections
The Green Economy will be the defining theme of the 2020s
Three Shoosmiths partners look at what’s happening now and in the future
Top barristers reveal what students need to know as they make pupillage applications
Practitioners from no less than 13 leading London sets share their insights as the Pupillage Gateway re-opens
Top commercial awareness talking points for aspiring lawyers
Courtesy of experts from ULaw, Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers and Womble Bond Dickinson
Legal technology: What does the next decade hold for law firms?
Three CMS lawyers share their thoughts
Five reasons to do your training contract with a global law firm outside London
Lawyers from Addleshaw Goddard’s Leeds office make the case for starting your career in the North
Why I wanted to become a lawyer
Solicitors from Eversheds Sutherland, Irwin Mitchell, Pinsent Masons and ULaw share the stories of their career journeys