Legal Cheek Careers

5 things I wish I’d known about being a City lawyer when I was starting out

Hogan Lovells financial services litigation partner Louise Lamb shares some legal life hacks

9 October 2014 14:55

Event: How to survive — and even thrive — in a changing legal market

Free Legal Cheek Careers event at Gray’s Inn featuring a panel of leading lawyers — open to all law students and junior lawyers

6 October 2014 10:20

‘There are not as many jobs for traditional lawyers as there used to be’

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

30 September 2014 12:43

How to be a pupil barrister

As this year's baby barristers prepare to commence pupillage, Hardwicke's Jasmine Murphy offers some words of wisdom

23 September 2014 11:33

How a jobless LPC graduate ended up turning down top firms’ training contract offers

Sam Clague couldn’t get a TC, so he started a paralegal recruitment business — and law firms quickly became interested in his entrepreneurial spirit

2 September 2014 09:19

Interview: Ian Ashley-Smith on how he became a judge without getting a degree

There are ways to make it to the top in law without a glittering academic record -- or indeed hardly any academic record at all

21 August 2014 11:33

7 life hacks for training contract hunters

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

18 August 2014 13:52

Podcast: Why law students shouldn’t wait until term starts to begin the hunt for training contracts and pupillages

With the first months of law school notoriously busy, students should be starting the early phases of the training contract and pupillage application processes this month

15 August 2014 14:12

Training contract assessment centre case study: 8 tips for winning at the City law end game

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge gets the lowdown from Norton Rose Fulbright on what it takes to emerge victorious from a training contract assessment centre

11 August 2014 13:57

14 insightful interactions from our Twitter discussion about bagging a training contract

The best bits from yesterday's #TCapps Q&A, featuring Norton Rose Fulbright, Mayer Brown, Aspiring Solicitors, Kaplan Law School and David Allen Green -- amongst a host of other experts and wannabe lawyers.

17 July 2014 12:34