The full video of Tuesday's 'How to survive (and even thrive) in a changing legal market' free careers advice event
Top solicitors, barristers and chartered legal executives reveal what lies ahead for the profession
Toby Willcocks' video series designed to help aspiring lawyers
How law students can make it into the legal profession without doing a training contract
As increasing numbers of top law firms introduce apprenticeship programmes, we consider the arguments in favour of entering the legal profession straight from school.
A student, a trainee and a graduate recruiter share their experiences of vac schemes at Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown and Norton Rose Fulbright to help wannabe lawyers about to start summer placements at City law firms.
Banker Miranda Brawn and Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge chat about what they learnt from law school
Avoid jokes and jargon, embrace business blurb and Blaise Pascal -- and spend ages filling out the form
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer accurately sums up in one sentence what Commercial Awareness involves – “Understanding the business benefits and commercial realities from both an organisation’s and …
Amid the competing attractions of different areas of law, it's important to keep an open mind, writes BPP University's Kandice Horsey
Sam Clague couldn’t get a TC, so he started a paralegal recruitment business — and law firms quickly became interested in his entrepreneurial spirit
A recent Aspiring Solicitors careers day at Kaplan Law School saw two former City law insiders reveal some of the secrets to landing a TC at a top firm
Juggling study and a work placement at Mayer Brown in London and Paris was worth it for Thomas Ajose
Shearman & Sterling's London open day for career changers debunked some popular myths
Application process kicks off next week for positions across the UK
Cara Goldthorpe talks to Legal Cheek Careers about being crowned "Law Undergraduate of the Year"
Young people are overconfident slackers who don’t have a clue about the real world, new...
Where issues of sexuality are relevant in the training contract application process wannabe lawyers should feel confident to be open, advises Hogan Lovells solicitor Charlotte Cartwright
Inspired by global social media sensation “Humans of New York”, two Legal Cheek work experience students have set up a legal profession version
A group of trainees, lawyers and law lecturers distil their exam preparation wisdom into seven-second Vine clips (click on the top left corner of each image to turn on the sound).
There are ways to make it to the top in law without a glittering academic record -- or indeed hardly any academic record at all
Having begun his career in the 90s recession, Mayer Brown head of banking and finance Dominic Griffiths has plenty of sympathy with those applying for training contracts today.
There are eight top 30 chambers' pupillage application deadlines in the next month
Five students who attended Shearman & Sterling's 'Head Start' first year open day last week tell Legal Cheek what they found out about the legal profession
Scheme is designed to encourage sixth-formers from “disadvantaged backgrounds” to have a punt at legal profession
Hogan Lovells financial services litigation partner Louise Lamb shares some legal life hacks
The biggest challenge is admitting to others that you are unhappy, says Oxford-educated law exile Martin Underwood
Earlier this year Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks urged students to make time to “dream” before...
Alex Aldridge distils the key points from Hogan Lovells' Oxford University 'Demystifying law in the City' lecture
Project mastermind Danielle White on a new way into the City that could change everything
Meet London's hottest corporate lawyers
Durham grad speaks to Legal Cheek about battle to land a training contract -- or perhaps even a pupillage
Norton Rose Fulbright tax lawyer Andrew Roycroft thinks his career may have begun differently if he was starting out in today's hyper-competitive job market
The full feisty discussion of last week's Legal Cheek Careers Q&A at Gray's Inn is now live on YouTube -- watch it below
Chartered Institute of Legal Executive president Fran Edwards expects more students to follow her on-the-job route into the profession over the coming years
The students who bagged scholarships from BPP Law School and the Inns of Court reveal how they did it
Alex Aldridge takes notes as Hogan Lovells, Hardwicke and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives assist young entrepreneurs at Legal Cheek‘s pro bono clinic
How unoriginal are you?
As the Friday application deadline to become a Hogan Lovells 2015-16 campus ambassador nears, Alex Aldridge meets one of the students who's held the role this year
New data shows that law students are the most willing of all students to work...
Hogan Lovells trainee Alex Cox was on the team acting for SABMiller in its acquisition of Meantime
Advancing to the higher echelons of BigLaw requires an understanding of how professional services firms work, writes Norton Rose Fulbright partner Madhavi Gosavi.
Alex Aldridge meets the Manchester University trio who won the Norton Rose Fulbright GP Challenge
Meet London's hottest corporate lawyers
Hardwicke barrister Charles Raffin on what he has learned on his journey from the City to the bar
Recently-qualified barrister Caoimhe McKearney advises
Mayer Brown newly qualified associate Harriet Hainsworth on the step up from trainee to solicitor
Getting advice from experienced LGBT lawyers helped Miles Tonkin secure a training contract at Herbert Smith Freehills
