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How to get people to give you money to become a lawyer
Bagging a scholarship isn't as hard as students often imagine.
‘Not everyone who drops sh*t on you is your enemy’
During a journey from academia to management retiring University of Law president Nigel Savage accumulated a few basic rules.
‘Life is a series of encounters with toasted cheese sandwiches at windswept train stations’
While being a public law barrister can be thrilling and rewarding, it's often less glamorous than people imagine.
From Bath Spa to Clifford Chance: how a history graduate who bungled his A-Levels made it to the Magic Circle
We met one of the winners of Clifford Chance's much-talked about 'CV blind' scheme.
12 things law students do say
The Facebook sensation Things Law Students Don’t Say (TLSDS) has received almost 23,000 likes by...
How to ace a winter vac scheme
After navigating the tortuous application process… …you’ve made it onto a prized winter vac scheme....
How to bag a pupillage during the BPTC
Kaplan Law School head of careers Gemma Baker (pictured below) tells Legal Cheek’s Alex Aldridge...
How to land a training contract during the Graduate Diploma in Law
Legal Cheek’s Alex Aldridge met University of Law employability programme manager Joanne Rourke and picked...
11 things not to say at a law fair
With the law fair season in full swing, we persuaded Norton Rose Fulbright’s graduate recruitment...
How can you tell what type of lawyer you’re destined to be?
One of the main problems faced by law students as they attempt to land training...
7 useful pieces of advice from ‘If I knew then what I know now at the Google Campus’
Above: from left to right — Mark Lewis, PJ Kirby QC, Jeremy Hopkins, Nicky Richmond,...
Dream, identify your passion…and then apply: how to bag a TC or pupillage as a non-law student
Earlier this year Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks urged students to make time to “dream” before...
Revealed: what ‘commercial awareness’ actually means
Despite the term’s omnipresence in the world of legal graduate recruitment, few wannabe lawyers properly...