Tag: Students

Would you turn down pupillage at a top chambers to go travelling?

A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world.

May 9 2014 10:06am

An anatomy of Kaplan’s doomed BPTC

Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.

May 7 2014 9:08am

Kaplan Law School to quit pricey Thames-side campus

Move away from South Bank premises follows ditching of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), as Kaplan re-focuses on Legal Practice Course (LPC) which is to be extended to include a free LLM qualification.

May 6 2014 3:22pm

Kaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course

Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.

May 2 2014 10:32am

Riverview Law to offer 10 training contracts and 10 apprenticeships this year

Exclusive: New legal market entrant to take on first ever trainees after being granted Alternative Business Structure (ABS) license.

May 2 2014 9:03am

Adventures in procrastination: the comedy Defamation Act 2013 video

Hot on the heels of the Law Revision Crossbow comes this student lament on the fluid nature of English defamation law.

May 1 2014 9:25am

Brighton Pier Tarot reader wows barrister

First you get hit by the law schools selling their barrister dream, then the Tarot Card readers get you...

Apr 30 2014 9:13am

Legal pic of the day

After posting today's Vine revision tips article, featuring University of Law heartthrob Faheem Ahmad, we received this Snapchat.

Apr 29 2014 4:12pm

How far would you go for silence in the library?

Court hears how law student lay in street with a noose around his neck in protest at noise in library, having also threatened hunger strike and suicide.

Apr 25 2014 10:42am

The emerging etiquette of the training contract video interview

How best to present yourself to potential employers through a laptop camera.

Apr 25 2014 9:06am

‘I worry I’m wasting my hero’s heart at law school’

Heroic law student reveals inner struggle to PostSecret.

Apr 24 2014 11:47am

12 alternative approaches to law revision

Because it can help to mix things up...

Apr 24 2014 9:26am

DWF launches video interview — doubling number of wannabe trainees it considers

Exclusive: DWF becomes the first big UK law firm to incorporate video into its training contract interview process.

Apr 23 2014 9:38am

Take a deep breath and do some colouring in

An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.

Apr 22 2014 9:21am

Google autocomplete reveals people’s true feelings about lawyers

Hot arrogant scum: The British public's view of solicitors, barristers and law students is rather confused.

Apr 17 2014 9:32am

A law-themed drinking game called ‘Hammertime’ has been created

Could "Hammertime", which was first popularised among Australian law students, go global this summer?

Apr 16 2014 1:56pm

Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage

EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.

Apr 16 2014 9:10am

We’re selling a limited number of ‘Eat Sleep Law Repeat’ T-shirts

Poor wannabe lawyers have it so much worse than other students, as Legal Cheek duo Thomas Connelly and Lucy Pether (pictured) well know...

Apr 15 2014 3:59pm

Top QCs slam Pistorius prosecutor’s cross-examination style

Don't imitate approach of Gerrie Nel, urge three silks on Twitter.

Apr 15 2014 10:22am

Paralegal who sent takedown notice to remove Wonga parody meme forced into internet hiding

Wonga's legal team hand recent University of Law graduate the dubious privilege of getting an image parodying the company removed from Twitter. Backlash focuses on him, rather than senior members of legal team.

Apr 14 2014 10:09am

Who’s been pinching textbooks from Gray’s Inn?

Inn of Court issues issues Facebook plea after textbooks go missing.

Apr 14 2014 9:06am