Tag: Training contracts
Another Facebook ‘Reverse Auction’ For An LPC Place Ends Instantly – With Minimal Savings For Winning Bidder
The National College of Legal Training (NCLT)’s first Facebook ‘reverse auction’, which took place last...
Interview Essentials: ‘It’s OK, Nobody Else Knows What the F*ck Commercial Awareness Is Either’
The other night I went out for a curry with a bunch of associate solicitors...
If You Put Trainee Solicitors On Housing Benefits, You Cut The Price Of Law School, Right?
Following the announcement by the Law Society that trainee solicitors on housing benefit is “not...
William Hague’s Ex-Advisor Christopher Myers Bags DLA Piper Training Contract
Christopher Myers, who in 2010 was forced to resign as special advisor to married foreign...
REVEALED: £30K Buys a TC, £9K a Paralegal Post
Earlier this month, Jonathan Fagan, managing director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, received an email from...
The GDL: Too Much Whine, Not Enough Time
Wannabe lawyers need to be more Margaret Thatcher and less Nick Clegg if they are...
An LLM Can ‘Count Against’ Training Contract Hunters
LLMs are intellectually tough, time-consuming and not all law firms like them, warns LegalAware Students...
Has Training Contract Gloom Become Self-Reinforcing?
The atmosphere of negativity in the legal profession towards graduate recruitment is getting out of...
What Does City ‘Mini-Boom’ Mean For Wannabe Lawyers?
Hope (of City recovery, creation of more fat cats and then another crash) is beautiful,...
At Least You’re Not an Italian Trainee Lawyer…
As English law students worry about the possible scrapping of the minimum trainee solicitor salary,...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Aldridge & Poulter Analyse Week’s Legal News
Journalist Alex Aldridge and solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the week’s legal news over a bottle...
Why Law Graduates Can be Choosers
GDL graduate Cathryn Kozlowski on why she turned down a paralegal job With more and...
Legal Sector’s January Recovery Looks Brittle
Fundamentals behind recent improved trainee retention rates and pay rises are questionable, says Alex Aldridge...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
GRADUATE RECRUITMENT: ‘I WOULDN’T START FROM HERE’
Follow @legalaware Initiatives like PRIME won’t change fact current system writes off talented students far...
TRAINING CONTRACTS NEVER GREW ON TREES
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK Current tough job market made to sound even worse by frequent comparisons with...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: TAKING A GAP YEAR TO SECURE A TRAINING CONTRACT
Law graduates Flora Duguid and Cathryn Kozlowski have both opted to take gap years before...
MILLIONAIRE LAWYERS SHOULD FUND PUPILLAGES
Follow @OccupyTheInns Unless the legal profession acts, an occupation of the Inns of Court could...
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
Law graduate Flora Duguid isn’t ready to fly the white flag yet in her quest...
LAW CONVERSION COURSE IS ‘MAD CRUSH OF KNOWLEDGE’
Follow @catpond Lawyer-to-be Cat Pond is relieved to put the ten-month Graduate Diploma in Law...
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS
Follow @emilyjupp Dear Auntie Em, I’m a male first year trainee solicitor at a large...