Tag: Students

Last-minute training contract applications are a waste of time

Thinking of burning the midnight oil to make a bid for City glory? Don’t, advise top law firm specialists

Jul 30 2015 12:27pm

Revised trainee solicitor hiring code is here; market braces for chaos

Law firm pressure forces junior lawyers group to drop application deadline guidance

Jul 29 2015 2:44pm

‘My Family’ actor with drugs record bids to be human rights barrister

Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL

Jul 29 2015 12:54pm

#LawyerSchmovies: 13 top movie titles improved by references to the law

The latest social media craze is all about law and films

Jul 28 2015 12:27pm

Comments of the week

The best below-the-line thoughts from the last five days

Jul 24 2015 4:01pm

Supervisor tells pupil she looks ‘quite f*ckable’ — report highlights sexism at bar

Two surveys this week illustrate just how much work bar leaders have to do to drive out the Fred Flintstone attitudes

Jul 24 2015 9:14am

Fewer students apply for law school scholarships than you think

Leicester Uni law grad Hannah Blake used her Kaplan Law School LLM LPC scholarship as a springboard to a City training contract

Jul 23 2015 12:41pm

The GDL is for ‘spineless’ losers, says Bristol Uni law student

Graduate Diploma in Law is for those with a half-hearted interest in legal profession, claims LLBer, amid decline in popularity of conversion route

Jul 23 2015 10:08am

From wasps to car-hire — junior lawyers need to diversify

There are many ways to exhibit commercial awareness...

Jul 22 2015 4:17pm

Financial Conduct Authority trainee flogs top City law firm training contract application answers

Exclusive: Graduate offers students an "unfair advantage" in return for cash

Jul 22 2015 10:28am

Bar Council must delay plans to move Pupillage Gateway deadline

Clarity is urgently needed instead of tumbleweed blowing across the website’s alerts page

Jul 20 2015 11:28am

Comments of the week

The best from below the line

Jul 17 2015 3:31pm

Uni of Law LPC student bids to win Miss England title before qualifying as a lawyer

Durham grad speaks to Legal Cheek about battle to land a training contract -- or perhaps even a pupillage

Jul 17 2015 10:32am

Appeal to continue search for BPP LPC grad missing while on diving holiday

London church launches petition to encourage Canadian authorities to find Timothy Chu, who was set to start training contract this September

Jul 16 2015 12:01pm

A new law school is being built in a bunker under Lincoln’s Inn to deliver a not-for-profit BPTC

Exclusive: Inns of Court fight back against private law schools

Jul 16 2015 10:48am

Two City firms back latest bid to ease law firm recruitment path for socially underprivileged

Herbert Smith Freehills and Travers Smith join three magic circle players in mentoring and advice scheme

Jul 16 2015 9:18am

The bar’s battle against elitism

Baby boomers wake up to urgent need to help millennials

Jul 15 2015 2:22pm

Vac schemes: students do everything but legal work

As the summer stints draw to a close, Legal Cheek asks the pivotal question: did anyone do any legal work?

Jul 15 2015 12:35pm

Arts students work harder than law students, stats reveal

A leading education think tank suggests wannabe lawyers might not have it as tough as they make out to counterparts in other disciplines

Jul 14 2015 12:14pm

Bar student from failed judicial review advertises himself as an ‘employment lawyer’

Exclusive: Religious minister and former car-worker-turned BPTC student caught up in ongoing row over barrister title

Jul 14 2015 9:58am

Anger and confusion as hundreds of students unexpectedly fail the BPTC ethics module

Exclusive: Litigation is in the air as the Bar Standards Board refuses to review the marks

Jul 13 2015 12:23pm