Tag: Students
11 reasons to think twice about doing the BPTC
Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first
Latham & Watkins becomes latest firm to ‘northshore’ with Manchester support office
City law firms' quest for lower overheads and staff costs continues
Why the cab rank rule is history
There’s never a taxi when you want one -- the solicitors’ professional body says the bar’s regulation is arcane, irrelevant and reached its sell-by date
2 Temple Gardens muscles to top of pupillage pay table
As 2TG award hits £67,5000, Hardwicke and 11 Stone Buildings also boost pupil money triggering a potential cash arms race for top talent
Law firms ditch training contracts in favour of ‘periods of recognised training’
25-year-old term consigned to history as not-very-catchy replacement is introduced
London offices of US giants follow magic circle in bringing forward vac scheme application deadlines
Deadlines for London offices of Shearman & Sterling, Latham & Watkins and Sullivan & Cromwell are next week -- joining handful of other firms
5 predictions for the legal profession in 2015
A splintering graduate recruitment model will create opportunities for savvy wannabe lawyers, forecasts Legal Cheek managing editor Alex Aldridge
Robot solicitors? Firm and uni team up to apply artificial intelligence to law
Potential bad news for training contract hunters of the future ...
Magic circle firms bring forward vac scheme application deadlines in battle to bag best students
Allen & Overy deadline was midnight on New Year's Eve -- leapfrogging rivals, whose deadlines fall in next few days
The 10 most-read stories of 2014
Your favourite Legal Cheek posts of the year
The Legal Cheek 2014 end of year quiz
It has been a vintage year for legal news and gossip -- but how much of it do you remember?
The university law faculties that have lost their way
Combine research rankings with teaching satisfaction data and you can see which law schools are floundering
King’s crowned top uni law faculty for research ahead of UCL, LSE and Oxbridge
The best -- and the worst -- university law schools for research have been revealed
Law students top the university shagging league
If you are studying the law, you are likely to claim to be a Casanova or Anastasia Steele character
Former bar student blasts law schools for ‘profiteering’ from academically weak applicants
Providers are coining it from foreigners with woeful English language skills, while regulators stand by, argues star student
Wannabe solicitor launches ‘class action’ against King’s College re-brand
Students fear dropping "college" from uni's name will hit prestige of their degree -- and they want compensation
11 Christmas struggles that only a law student will understand
"Tis the season to be jolly" -- but not if you're studying law
There is an English court where gavels are actually used
Small wooden hammer is not restricted to the US, it emerges
Spotted: another law graduate hustling London commuters for work
De Monfort LLB grad follows UWE law student in hitting the streets
17 City firms offering hungry vac schemers and law student liggers the best and worst of nosh
Our correspondent and his friends rank the law firm food they sampled during work experience and open days
Law students bag first win for university pro bono projects as murder conviction is overturned
High judicial praise for Cardiff’s Innocence Project in a case that also sees a “hot” barrister in the limelight