Tag: lccareers
From student to solicitor: The most important things that you learn during your training contract
‘A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’
Five qualities that make a good corporate lawyer
Ahead of 'How to make it as a City lawyer' on Thursday, Herbert Smith Freehills associate Siddhartha Shukla discusses the key skills he has learnt in his career to date
Law firms are not looking for ‘the polished, finished article’
Ahead of How to make it as a City Lawyer, BPP lecturer and former City lawyer Charlie Radcliffe talks training contracts and showing your 'human side'
Alternative careers for law graduates: financial crime
Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Garry Clement -- who has seen it all -- is consistently impressed by the qualities that those from a legal background bring to his specialism of financial crime
An engineering graduate’s journey into law
Ahead of 'How to make it as a City Lawyer', Mayer Brown associate Emma Sturt considers the skills that science students bring to the legal profession
Get out there and meet lawyers, there is no better preparation
Hogan Lovells partner Chris Hutton recalls how a teacher who "pushed us to apply to places we had never dreamed of applying to" helped put him on the right track
From King’s College London law student to Ashurst partner
As Ashurst's training contract deadline looms, we talk to banking law specialist Nick Wong about his career to date
Birmingham student event: Lawyers and the fourth industrial revolution — with Pinsent Masons
How AI and Big Data will change legal practice
Why lawyers need to be good listeners
Ahead of Legal Cheek and Macfarlanes' deal-themed Commercial Awareness Question Time next week, partner Nicholas Barclay offers future solicitors some advice
Event: How to make it as a City lawyer
Solicitors from Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students -- for free -- ahead of the training contract application deadline
Experience: I did a secondment at a global media company during my City training contract
Reed Smith trainee Roch Glowacki reflects on what he learned during six-months at firm’s client
Shearman & Sterling lawyers look beyond General Election to the main event: Brexit
The real challenges will come once May v Corbyn battle is over
How the Norton Rose Fulbright energy law LLM scholarship is helping to take a young lawyer’s career to the next level
Legal Cheek Careers meets Rodica Procop, a student at Queen Mary University of London’s energy and natural resources law institute
Law, politics and the City
Ahead of the Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate on Monday, Tim Waterson explains how an early interest in politics set him up for life in the corporate finance fast lane
Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time — Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe, with Macfarlanes
The lawyers who handled one of the biggest M&A deals of last year share their experiences with 50 students
I’m a UK law grad working as a paralegal in the Caribbean before starting my training contract in London later this year
Sun, sea, scuba diving and … stimulating legal work
Birmingham University vlogger beats 1,000 students to win trip to HSF’s Hong Kong and Australia offices
Watch Laura Kendrick's video -- and those of the five other extremely impressive finalists -- below
Event: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate
Commercial Awareness Question Time summer season commences
Five ways law students can engage with tech to best prepare for legal practice
Consider the bigger picture, says BPP University Law School head of LPC programmes Jane Houston
From Exeter to Ashurst: How being a campus ambassador helped me secure a prestigious City training contract
Ahead of Ashurst’s campus ambassador application deadline, Rebecca Fenton reflects on what she got out of the role — which the firm offers at 11 unis
A law firm survival guide for millennials
How young lawyers can overcome the negative stereotypes associated with their generation