Tag: Students
University of Law to bring in aptitude test for its BPTC
Test will be introduced next year, along with minimum 2:1 entry requirement
Social mobility report’s shallow analysis of legal profession
Headline figures slam judiciary for being public school-educated toffs, but provides little insight demographics of wider sectors
Baker & McKenzie cuts training contract numbers by 12% as new Belfast support centre announced
EXCLUSIVE: Outsourcing stifles training contract growth at City law firms -- reductions in London graduate intake at Baker & McKenzie and Allen & Overy following Northern Ireland support office ventures
Legal executive chief leads lawyers in ice bucket challenge
Jury still out on whether Justice Secretary Grayling as well as Law Society and Bar...
Legal aid slasher Grayling nominated for the ice bucket challenge
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan nominates the bête noir of much of the legal profession to take a drenching -- while other luminaries are also in the spotlight
Top junior lawyer calls on Law Society to fight for return of trainee minimum salaries
As a new team arrives at beleaguered Chancery Lane, Legal Cheek sets out the issues the solicitors’ profession leadership should be addressing for law students and young lawyers
Legal pic of the day
What a bank holiday means to pupil barristers
Will vlawging catch on?
Some students are making decent money out of vlogging, so why are only a handful of wannabe lawyers dabbling in the medium?
This one goes out to the paralegals in the regions
A musical interlude
6 things you can buy with 18 grand that are much more fun than law school
With the cost of the LPC and BPTC approaching the eye-watering respective sums of £15,000 and £18,000, it is not unreasonable to consider how else that money could be spent
Law firm faces Twitter accusation of plagiarising newspaper articles
Legal commentator doyen Joshua Rozenberg leads the charge against a high street practice that appears to have a penchant for lifting other writers’ words
Official survey: bar students are rubbish at ethics
Latest figures show tumbling pass rates on vocational course exam -- with bar regulators scratching their heads over the cause
Exclusive interview: Judge Rinder on life as Britain’s newest reality TV star
2 Hare Court barrister Rob Rinder talks to Legal Cheek about being the UK’s answer to Judge Judy
An 8 step Pinterest guide to what to wear during legal work experience
King’s College London student Jessy Howard reports from the mini-pupillage and law firm work placement front line via Legal Cheek‘s new ‘Lawyer Looks’ Pinterest board
Wannabe lawyers face tough choices in the Clearing ‘transfer window’
Decisions could be swayed by trends in law firm graduate recruitment such as 'CV blind'
This House of Cards parody about the battle to land a training contract is amazing
Law student blackmails and kills to secure job at top firm
Law student who claimed benefits while at uni is given even more work to do
This is what happens when you don't cancel jobseeker's allowance after starting law school...
Political blog Guido Fawkes attacks Oxford Uni Labour club chair for doing vac schemes at top City law firms
Law student's social media footprint used by popular right-wing blog to make 'champagne socialism' accusations that don't quite hit the mark
Revealed: the really badly written and fake-sounding LPC scam emails that have spurred SRA warning
Legal Cheek has obtained copies of the LPC funding scam emails that have prompted the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to issue a warning to wannabe lawyers
Legal pic of the day
On today's centenary of the start of the first world war, this photo shows members of the Inns of Court Regiment being drilled in Hertfordshire during the conflict
Now there are 3 big law firms offering more training contracts than they did last year
First White & Case and Burges Salmon nudged up their trainee numbers, and now — Legal Cheek can reveal — Clyde & Co is increasing its quota substantially