Tag: Students
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
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
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
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
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
Law student, 80, graduates from Liverpool Uni
80-year-old former copper picks up law master degree -- but he’s not the oldest ever
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
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
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?
Research: Majority of law grads now become paralegals before doing a training contract
New pre-trainee tier is becoming the norm
London law student creates ‘Writ of Summons’ to ask coursemate to law society ball
Courtship, wannabe lawyer-style
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
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?
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"
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