Author: the-careers-team
From asylum seeker to legal apprentice
Years of fighting to stay in Britain got Muna Ahmed interested in the law
The bar’s battle against elitism
Baby boomers wake up to urgent need to help millennials
7 things we learned from our Twitter discussion about securing a training contract
The best bits from yesterday’s #TCapps Q&A
What it was like to act on a bust-up between naturists that reached the Court of Appeal
Hardwicke barrister Andy Creer discusses acting for Hertfordshire naturist village Spielplatz Estate in a tenancy dispute with a member couple
We are holding a Twitter Q&A about how to ace a training contract application on Wednesday at 1pm
Experts on hand to advise in hour-long session open to all
9 essentials that successful training contract applicants grasp
It's often the subtle things that mark out candidates taken on by leading firms
How to fund your way through the BPTC
By bagging two scholarships and working part-time, University of Law bar graduate Sam Frost was able to keep costs down as he pursued his barrister ambitions
5 things career changers need to know about getting a training contract at a top firm
Shearman & Sterling's London open day for career changers debunked some popular myths
Podcast: Will Mayer Brown’s new earn-while-you-learn programme kill the training contract?
Project mastermind Danielle White on a new way into the City that could change everything
What it was like to work on the deal that saw craft beer go mainstream
Hogan Lovells trainee Alex Cox was on the team acting for SABMiller in its acquisition of Meantime
Life in a law firm: ‘Prepping to go to Russia #fridaynightmare #byebyeweekend’
RPC trainee Sarah Pearson on what it’s like to drop everything and head to St Petersburg for work
How law can set you up for an alternative career
Banker Miranda Brawn and Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge chat about what they learnt from law school
7 ways that being a law firm campus manager helps you to bag a vac scheme
Herbert Smith Freehills' outgoing campus managers told us how the role contributed to them securing spring and summer placements
9 things we learned from the #PupillageApps Q&A
The best bits from last night's Twitter discussion about how to bag a pupillage
Video: Where will the next generation of advocates come from and how will they train?
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
This is what students learn on first year open days
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
10 must-dos for Pupillage Gateway applicants from the barristers who assess them
Avoid jokes and jargon, embrace business blurb and Blaise Pascal -- and spend ages filling out the form
How to get a law school scholarship
The students who bagged scholarships from BPP Law School and the Inns of Court reveal how they did it
How to nail an application to a non-Pupillage Gateway chambers
There are eight top 30 chambers' pupillage application deadlines in the next month
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