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

Dec 18 2014 4:34pm

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

Dec 18 2014 9:15am

11 Christmas struggles that only a law student will understand

"Tis the season to be jolly" -- but not if you're studying law

Dec 17 2014 9:59am

There is an English court where gavels are actually used

Small wooden hammer is not restricted to the US, it emerges

Dec 16 2014 11:16am

Spotted: another law graduate hustling London commuters for work

De Monfort LLB grad follows UWE law student in hitting the streets

Dec 15 2014 12:14pm

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

Dec 12 2014 9:34am

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

Dec 10 2014 2:09pm

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