Tag: Students

A dozen law-related tunes to beat the training contract application blues

The Judge trawls through his -- and his mates’ -- old vinyl collections in search of a soundtrack to ease the stress

Jun 24 2015 9:31am

What are the best alternatives for students turned off the bar due to lack of pupillages and legal aid cuts?

Top solicitors and barristers advise undergrads at Legal Cheek Careers at Inner Temple

Jun 22 2015 1:35pm

‘To be a good advocate you need courage above all’

As a junior barrister Herbert Smith Freehills' Tom Leech QC could never sleep before a hearing. But he kept going...

Jun 18 2015 11:16am

5 things career changers need to know about getting a training contract at a top firm

Shearman & Sterling's London open day for career changers debunked some popular myths

Jun 16 2015 2:46pm

Research: wannabe barristers are the biggest law student druggies

Legal Practice Course counterparts are the least keen, but when wannabe solicitors do take drugs they have penchant for cocaine

Jun 16 2015 10:04am

PM hit with social media flack for Magna Carta banalities

David Cameron’s 800th anniversary message from windswept Surrey car park wins little more than derision

Jun 15 2015 3:58pm

Podcast: Will Mayer Brown’s new earn-while-you-learn programme kill the training contract?

Project mastermind Danielle White on a new way into the City that could change everything

Jun 15 2015 3:05pm

Social Mobility Commission slams law firms for rich kids bias

Unofficial "poshness test" which champions "talent" keeps riff-raff out of legal profession

Jun 15 2015 11:53am

Exclusive: Top chambers reveals pupillage candidates in accidental data breach

Red faces at London criminal and housing set, as Garden Court cocks up email and widely discloses names of wannabe barristers set for interviews

Jun 12 2015 1:28pm

Canary Wharf law firm asks students to pay to do work experience

"You will be charged for us providing you this opportunity"

Jun 12 2015 10:56am

Top HSBC in-house lawyer tells students to ditch gap years and work at JD Sports instead

Show us that you're not reliant on mummy and daddy, says bar graduate-turned-banking lawyer Sandie Okoro

Jun 11 2015 10:08am

7 pieces of advice I’d give to my junior barrister self

City Law School pro bono director Sarwan Singh on what he's learnt on his journey from law centres and local government to academia

Jun 10 2015 3:45pm

Drug use among lawyers and law students: take the anonymous Legal Cheek survey

Do you take illegal -- or even "legal" -- drugs?

Jun 10 2015 11:41am

‘Jeoffrey’ commits multiple torts against Catelyn and Sansa in Game of Thrones-inspired law exam

Legal academics at Sheffield University in exam homage to hit show First year law students...

Jun 9 2015 12:42pm

Global firm CMS kicks off fourth year of state school student law degree bursary

Scheme is designed to encourage sixth-formers from “disadvantaged backgrounds” to have a punt at legal profession

Jun 8 2015 9:32am

11 things you need to do in a pupillage interview

Recently-qualified barrister Caoimhe McKearney advises

Jun 5 2015 2:15pm

The Judge Rules: Students should be cautious following latest Uni of Law sale

Who is the 36 year-old new owner of ULaw?

Jun 5 2015 9:51am

The hard route to becoming a City lawyer

King & Wood Mallesons solicitor Jeremy Consitt spent 15 years working his way up from the bottom

Jun 4 2015 1:15pm

What the supervisor says Vs What the trainee hears

Junior and senior lawyers speak a different language

Jun 4 2015 11:06am

500 students sign petition urging City Uni Law School to meet disability access promise

Student with cerebral palsy claims officials are dragging heels over upgrade to law library doors

Jun 2 2015 12:40pm