Clik here to view.
STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law STEM Future Lawyers has joined forces with BPP University Law School for a second year on a law conversion scholarship for science,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall
Ahead of our student careers event in London on Tuesday, Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness Phil...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some pieces of wisdom for future lawyers to take with them as they apply for TCs
Advice from BARBRI, Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons Lawyers from Hill Dickinson, Irwin Mitchell, Linklaters and Pinsent Masons joined BARBRI’s international managing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the SQE could be ‘the best thing to happen to university legal education...
The head of Leicester De Montfort Law School, Professor Kevin Bampton, welcomes the scrapping of the LPC. Ahead of his appearance at LegalEdConNorth on 30 January in Manchester, he explains why Changes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two months into her training contract and Eve Cornwell reveals what magic...
Busy rush hour commutes, free breakfast, two mobile phones and getting to grips with time recording Credit: Eve Cornwell (YouTube) Legal YouTube star Eve Cornwell is back from her eight-week long...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Commercial awareness through the eyes of a real estate lawyer
Michael Shaw, real estate partner at Squire Patton Boggs, discusses life in law and offers some words of wisdom for the next generation Michael Shaw Real estate is a sociable area of law with a lot of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
General election 2019: Oxford educated ex-Slaughter and May lawyers go...
Former magic circle duo even attended the same private school Simon Clarke and Lauren Dingsdale Two former Slaughter and May lawyers are going head-to-head in next month’s general election. Simon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staffordshire Uni law grad representing himself persuades High Court to hear...
Michael Connor crowdfunding to keep anti-austerity case alive A recent law graduate with no solicitor or barrister has persuaded the High Court to hear a potentially historic challenge to a key bit of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lawtech is here to help lawyers — not replace them
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest careers event tomorrow, ‘How tech is changing law and business’, we sit down with Herbert Smith Freehills senior associate Kushal Bhimjiani Legal technology: you either...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exclusive research: average time trainees and junior lawyers spend at work...
As pay keeps rising The average time trainees and junior lawyers spend at work has dipped to its lowest in four years. Legal Cheek can reveal junior solicitors this year spent an average 10 hours and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What the global economy of the 2020s has in store for lawyers
Three experts from Osborne Clarke reflect on the latest trends and how the legal landscape will look in the next decade Left to right: Ray Berg, Catherine Hammon and Simon Hobday In Osborne Clarke’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fancy eating like a lawyer? Now you can thanks to this new charity cookbook
Nigella Lawson has ordered her copy already Lawyers don’t usually like to be seen cooking the books, but dozens of them have made an exception with a charity legal cookbook that’s already been snapped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
British lawtech entrepreneur launches AI tool that identifies ‘loopholes’ in...
Taking the torment out of T&Cs? Credit: Joshua Browder The British lawtech entrepreneur who created ‘DoNotPay’, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that fights parking tickets, delayed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a...
Not if you’re an employment lawyer in Leeds Audience member and Labour’s Richard Burgon MP (Credit: BBC) A shouty bloke on BBC Question Time has gone a bit viral with his baffling claim that all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My life as a corporate finance lawyer advising tech companies and entrepreneurs
Ahead of her appearance at Tuesday’s careers event, ‘The Northern Powerhouse economy of the 2020s’ in Leeds, Addleshaw Goddard’s Carly Gulliver shares an insight into fast-growing practice Carly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I became a commercial litigator in the City
Ahead of a lawtech special edition of our popular ‘Secrets to Success’ student events series, Michael O’Donoghue, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, discusses his day job and the firm’s tech strategy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aspiring lawyers can’t afford to be technophobes
Ahead of tonight’s lawtech special edition of our ‘Secrets to Success’ student events series with The University of Law, Simon George, associate professor and director of ULTRA, the ULaw Technology...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Director of top London lawtech company Luminance faces US extradition over...
Slaughter and May is a high profile backer of business Mike Lynch – Credit: The Royal Society via Wikimedia Commons A billionaire investor in a legal AI company also backed by Slaughter and May is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Strike off for solicitor who helped client conceal damages from ‘controlling’...
‘Acted out of character’ An experienced personal injury solicitor who helped a client conceal from her “controlling” husband the full amount of damages she received in settling a claim has been struck...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EXCLUSIVE: Former bosses of ULaw and Kaplan combine with magic circle duo to...
They’re targeting the SQE market The fight for SQE course market share is on The former bosses of the University of Law (ULaw) and Kaplan have joined forces with Freshfields’ innovation chief and...
View Article