Tag: Students

Bristol chambers axes pupillage place for next year — after wannabes had applied

Queen Square set's application required a week’s worth of toil -- and then the pupillage was cancelled

Dec 9 2014 11:17am

Demands for universities to shop extremist students will be red-tape nightmare, say law school chiefs

Ministers are keen for vice-chancellors to monitor students for fundamentalist leanings -- but senior law academics have their doubts over practicalities

Dec 5 2014 12:43pm

A handy five-point plan on how to pull law students

Student website reckons it’s sussed how to cajole knackered, stressed and career-obsessed wannabe lawyers into the sack

Dec 5 2014 9:39am

Exclusive interview: Felipe from The Apprentice on why he quit City law to follow his dreams

Former Latham & Watkins and Slaughter and May man learned lots from private practice, but doesn’t miss it — he tells Legal Cheek

Dec 5 2014 8:55am

Law student, 80, graduates from Liverpool Uni

80-year-old former copper picks up law master degree -- but he’s not the oldest ever

Dec 4 2014 12:58pm

Ex-Slaughter and May lawyer fired from The Apprentice for ‘trying to be too smart’

Second solicitor ditched from hit BBC show by lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar

Dec 4 2014 10:23am

Legal apprenticeship schemes — cheap labour for law firms?

Some apprentices are paid less than half what their trainee counterparts earn -- raising suggestions that the role could revolutionise legal profession training

Dec 4 2014 9:24am

Law student boasts about making £300 selling stolen university library books

Is this tale of a youthful tea-leaf an illustration of modern commercial awareness -- or just outright criminality?

Dec 3 2014 11:29am

Law is one of most ethnically diverse university subjects, government stats show

Some 32% of LLB students are non-white, yet ethnic minorities remain poorly represented at many top law firms

Nov 28 2014 9:35am

Next in the gavel hall of shame — step forward Staffordshire University law school

It claims to offer students the opportunity “to develop advocacy skills in an authentic courtroom setting” -- so why the auction room hammer?

Nov 27 2014 9:27am

Irate Lord Justice Jackson uses Court of Appeal judgment to issue lawyers with student-style skeleton argument tips

Top judge snaps after wading through "35 pages of rambling prolixity"

Nov 26 2014 9:01am

Wannabe solicitor wins enough to pay his way through law degree and LPC with poker tournament triumph

Nottingham University law undergraduate is quids in after scooping £35k prize following previous £8k win

Nov 25 2014 10:05am

The Apprentice Review: First solicitor axed from show blames exit on Lord Sugar’s hatred of lawyers

Lauren is out, leaving legal profession's hopes resting on shoulders of ex-magic circle solicitor Felipe

Nov 20 2014 1:17pm

Ex-poly offers City partner-level wedge to fill junior lawyer slot

Recruitment website typo gets hearts racing, but actual salary is far more like what you’d expect

Nov 17 2014 12:07pm

Law has among the lowest proportion of privately educated students of any degree subject

9% of law degree students went to private schools -- compared to 29% of medics

Nov 17 2014 9:26am

Official stats: Great Recession has devastated applications to law schools

Over the last five years the number of students aiming for either the LPC or GDL has tumbled

Nov 13 2014 9:09am

14 things that mean something completely different if you’re a law student

The world seen through the eyes of the wannabe lawyer

Nov 12 2014 9:49am

Final 6 go head-to-head in law teacher of the year awards

Most students wouldn’t know it existed, but this Oxford University Press gong is a chance for those in the tweed jackets to get a little recognition

Nov 7 2014 10:56am