Tag: Students

Meet The Solicitors With Second Jobs As Writers For Essay Companies That Target Students

Yesterday, we brought you news of an essay-writing company that pays LPC and BPTC graduates...

Aug 30 2012 9:02am

Might Even Graduates Of ‘Reputable’ Unis Struggle To Write Decent Essays When They’re Paid Just £43 Per 1,000 Words?

Last week, an essay-writing company posted an ad seeking law graduates with “a minimum Undergraduate...

Aug 29 2012 2:49pm

What Is It With Law Graduates And The Urge To Steal From John Lewis?

An LPC graduate has admitted stealing from John Lewis via a fake refund scam, just...

Aug 28 2012 10:12am

How To Face Down Dirty Tactics During a Vac Scheme

Over the weekend, ‘The Budding Lawyer’ wrote of the dirty tactics he had fallen victim...

Aug 23 2012 10:30am

Law Graduate Sought For Barristers Chambers Job That Is ‘Not a Step Into Legal Work’

Amid falling training contract and pupillage numbers, these are bleak times for law graduates. Still,...

Aug 23 2012 9:20am

Leap To The Other Side: Camden New Journal Music Editor On How She’s Juggling Journalism And Law

For the past two years I have been leading a double life – part music...

Aug 21 2012 1:47pm

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Understanding How Law Firms Think About A-Levels

With many law firms and barristers’ chambers using strict minimum A-level requirements to filter wannabes,...

Aug 17 2012 5:14pm

How To Land a PAID Paralegal Position And Qualify As a Solicitor Without Drowning In Debt

Paralegal Tony, a part-time LPC student and paralegal at a City law firm, says that...

Aug 16 2012 12:16pm

The Best Law School-Themed Animated Gifs

#WhatShouldWeCallMe is a brilliant Tumblr blog run by two anonymous law students. Most of the...

Aug 15 2012 11:01am

Finally, The Inns Of Court Are Occupied!

During the past year the light at the end of the tunnel grew so dim...

Aug 14 2012 1:05pm

‘I Would Like To Extend You a Counter-Offer To Suck My Dick’: Law School Dropout’s Job Chances Scotched As Email Goes Viral

We haven’t had a legal profession viral email story since the ‘spitroast trainee’ Daniel England...

Aug 14 2012 9:10am

Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract

There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...

Aug 10 2012 2:37pm

Jags And Unpaid Interns: The Two Faces Of Fly-On-The-Wall Documentary Law Firm Tuckers

‘The Briefs’, the two-part ITV criminal law firm documentary which concluded last night, sparked rage...

Aug 10 2012 10:29am

NAMED: The Bar Graduate, 27, Who Anthony Arlidge QC Has Dumped Constance Briscoe For

On Tuesday, we relayed the extraordinary news that 18 Red Lion Court veteran Anthony Arlidge...

Aug 9 2012 7:26am

Feeling Important: Possible As a Trainee Solicitor?

TheTraineeComplex continues his bid to understand life as a City law firm trainee through reference...

Aug 8 2012 9:10am

Anthony Arlidge QC, 75, Ditches Judge Constance Briscoe For Wannabe Barrister, 27

In his recently relinquished role of Master of Entertainments at Middle Temple, Anthony Arlidge QC...

Aug 7 2012 10:07am

A G&T With @LegalTrainee Founder Izzy Abidi

Earlier this week I caught up with Eversheds trainee Izzy Abidi – the brains behind...

Aug 3 2012 1:59pm

The Post-BPTC Files: Starting An Internship Aged 28 ‘Wasn’t The Life I’d Envisaged’ – But It Worked Out Alright

Editorial note: Last month Gemma Amran turned the conventional pupillage hunt narrative on its head...

Aug 3 2012 7:06am

Pupillage Portal Gets The Year And The Day Wrong As Chambers Make Their Graduate Offers

There was widespread disbelief earlier this year when, for the first time in its three-year...

Aug 2 2012 2:40pm

Pupillage Offer Day: How You’ll Feel…

…if you net that elusive pupillage And if you don’t…

Aug 2 2012 9:03am

Five Ways Barristers Can Treat Mini-Pupils Better

As I continue the Herculean battle to obtain pupillage, I broke a promise to myself...

Aug 1 2012 10:15am