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4 things you absolutely must do during a vac scheme
A student, a trainee and a graduate recruiter share their experiences of vac schemes at Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Norton Rose Fulbright to help wannabe lawyers about to start summer placements at City law firms.
Hitting the secondment jackpot: what it’s like to be a trainee in NYC
New York is like "London with an umph", says Mayer Brown trainee solicitor Kibbeum Kim, and life as a lawyer there "takes working hard and playing harder to a whole new level".
Could old-fashioned mentoring be the new ‘CV Blind’?
Having explored ‘CV Blind’ and sampled an Aspiring Solicitors’ lunch, Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge gets a taste of the often-overlooked area of legal mentoring.
11 things not to do in a pupillage interview
You’ve made the cut. You’ve secured that pupillage interview. @Wigapedia advises on what you should NOT do next...
Does the future of law have no place for women?
Over 50% of new entrants to the legal profession may be women, but its higher echelons remain dominated by men — as a recent conference on the future of law demonstrated. Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) boss Diane Burleigh reports.
The rise of the straight B student (who got a first)
The resilience, drive and determination possessed by rough diamonds is underrated, Norton Rose Fulbright trainee recruitment manager Caroline Lindner tells Legal Cheek‘s Alex Aldridge as he visits an “Aspiring Solicitors” lunch hosted by the firm.
9 revision tips from people who have nailed law exams
A group of trainees, lawyers and law lecturers distil their exam preparation wisdom into seven-second Vine clips (click on the top left corner of each image to turn on the sound).
Legal apprenticeships: ‘I fully intend to progress to partner’
Legal Cheek's Alex Aldridge meets three lawyers who took the legal apprenticeship route before it became fashionable.
Where next for LGBT in law?
The legal profession has made huge amounts of progress in their treatment of gay lawyers, but tricky issues remain, discovers Alex Aldridge as he visits one of the leading LGBT network in the City.
7 insights from ‘If I knew at Inner Temple’ that will help you bag a job and build a thriving career
The panel of leading lawyers at Monday's 'If I knew then what I know now' Q&A at Inner Temple offered students some thought-provoking and often unconventional pieces of advice.
Lawyers at Bar National Mock Trial Competition urge students to look beyond criminal Bar
Citizenship Foundation's Bar Mock Trial final sees Northern Ireland's Aquinas Grammar School win national junior advocacy crown. But assembled top lawyers warn wannabes of plight of criminal Bar, and encourage them to explore other areas.
6 qualities that wannabe litigators must possess following the Jackson reforms
To land a top pupillage or training contract, students need to show they have what it takes to thrive in a much-changed environment.
‘I don’t ever regret not going to university’
Entering law straight from school as an apprenctice put Chartered Institute of Legal Executives president Stephen Gowland in a position to start his own law firm aged just 32.
‘No one left the firm unless they’d been turned down for partnership, especially not to become a journalist’
In a varied career that has spanned practising as a solicitor, financial journalism and the authoring of several well-known books about commercial awareness, Hogan Lovells' Chris Stoakes has learnt to follow his heart.
8 reasons why wannabe lawyers shouldn’t go to uni
As increasing numbers of top law firms introduce apprenticeship programmes, we consider the arguments in favour of entering the legal profession straight from school.
I was rejected for a training contract by the firm where I became a partner
Having begun his career in the 90s recession, Mayer Brown head of banking and finance Dominic Griffiths has plenty of sympathy with those applying for training contracts today.
Corporate lawyers can be divided into ‘grinders, minders and finders’
Advancing to the higher echelons of BigLaw requires an understanding of how professional services firms work, writes Norton Rose Fulbright partner Madhavi Gosavi.
How to get people to give you money to become a lawyer
Bagging a scholarship isn't as hard as students often imagine.
‘Not everyone who drops sh*t on you is your enemy’
During a journey from academia to management retiring University of Law president Nigel Savage accumulated a few basic rules.
‘Life is a series of encounters with toasted cheese sandwiches at windswept train stations’
While being a public law barrister can be thrilling and rewarding, it's often less glamorous than people imagine.
From Bath Spa to Clifford Chance: how a history graduate who bungled his A-Levels made it to the Magic Circle
We met one of the winners of Clifford Chance's much-talked about 'CV blind' scheme.