Latest News
Vince Cable denies student loan hike
Secretary of state for business, innovation and skills Vince Cable MP has denied that the Government is planning to raise the interest rates of loans taken out between 1998 and 2012.
Pinsents eyes international trainee secondments
Pinsent Masons is considering whether to second trainees to its recently-opened offices in Paris, Munich and Turkey.
Olympic gold medalist Hosking to join Freshfields as trainee
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to welcome London 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Sophie Hosking as a trainee at the firm.
My university grades are not high enough - what should I do?
I am a second year law student at a redbrick institution. In my first year I averaged at 50.5% and this year I averaged at 57.5%. I have not been able to apply for any vacation schemes because of my grades.
Opinion
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Voluntary contributions
Engagement in your community is a sure-fire way to impress a law firm, says TLT training partner Maria Connolly.
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Commercial awareness: Planning process gets boost
The new significant infrastructure projects regime will help prevent another wind-farm hiatus
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Commercial awareness: Protecting IP in cyber space
Lawyers need to pre-empt the risks of cyber industrial espionage
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Market report: The Dragon enters the global legal market
Mandarin-speaking Western lawyers become hot property as Chinese firms aim for international expansion
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Market report: Australian tie-ups get off to flying start
Merged firms’ cross-referral strategies pay off with a host of joint instructions
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Market report: Investigating the alternatives
Why would a law firm choose to convert to an ABS - and is it worth it?
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Commercial awareness: Russia, the G20 and anti-corruption
Despite a raft of legislation, Russia has some way to go in gaining businesses’ confidence
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Market report: Firm ‘contrived’ not to employ pregnant trainee
Employment Tribunal slams Travers for turning two posts into one to avoid giving post to pregnant woman
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Commercial awareness: Copyright law lets down the orphans
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill has sparked outrage in creative circles
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Criminal pupillages cancelled
Two chambers suspend pupil intakes as legal aid cuts start to bite
Insight
How to network
Networking events can throw the best of vac schemers or trainees. Professional public speaker and presentation coach Luan de Burgh of the de Burgh Group gives his list of what to do and what not to do the next time you need to attend one of these potentially torturous affairs.
Sixth Sense
The Lawyer 2B Careers Day provided Year 12 students with everything they need to know to break into the legal profession
Profile: Solomon's justice
Solomon Wifa is the youngest-ever managing partner of O’Melveny & Myers’ London office. The story of his success has the trappings of a Hollywood blockbuster
Retention rates: pressure group
The trainee intake model has reached critical point with shrinking business opportunities compounded by high training costs
60 Second Interview
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Sarah Dyke
Dentons’ graduate recruitment partner Sarah Dyke has an unhealthy addiction to shoes and handbags and keeps an eye out for generic answers in applications.
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Georgia Hicks
Devereux Chambers pupil Georgia Hicks has learnt that you’ve got to remain resilient, support your client, and not show quite how disappointed you are.
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Lee Malam
LPC student Lee Malam considers that the disappointments encountered on the training contract hunt can be a blessing in disguise.
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Sarah Rees-Leonard
After a career as an art specialist TLT trainee Sarah Rees-Leonard wanted something to promote commercial thinking and relationship building across a range of sectors.
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Hannah Diss
Dentons trainee Hannah Diss says that it doesn’t take long to realise that selling legal services is almost as important as the law itself.
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Catherine Gifford
This University West of England LPC student is working part-time to fund her studies and wants to be part of Bristol’s fast developing business community.
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Georgiana Applegate
Trainee solicitor Georgiana Applegate gives an essential insight into working at TLT.
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Lisa Jordan
The biggest challenge for Irwin Mitchell’s graduate recruitment partner Lisa Jordan is finding enough time in the day to be a good manager and partner, a good lawyer for clients and still ‘switch off’ at the end of the day.
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Faye Duhamel
Faye Duhamel, a GDL student at BPP Law School, feels that studying a subject other than law at undergraduate level has given her a wider range of skills and knowledge.
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Rory Trust
Former journalist Rory Trust is now a trainee at Burges Salmon - while the hours and competition for jobs are similar the pay and career prospects in law are much better.
Regional Reports
Regional focus: Leeds
A lively city and an exciting place to work is how young lawyers describe Leeds
Regional Focus: Belfast
The pace of change in the Northern Ireland legal sector was, until a couple of years ago, sluggish at best. Now, having weathered the financial storm, Belfast now resides as the beating heart of developments in the law and there is still more to come.
Regional focus: Bristol
A strong link between firms and colleges makes the city a good place to forge a legal career
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Self-determination: a study
Reading law student Chantelle Bacchus was awarded a prize at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research last month.
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Banking on Dubai
One of the best things about being a trainee at Norton Rose is the opportunity to spend a seat on secondment to one of our international offices.
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From rowing boat to employment law
Tom Solesbury talks about the highs and lows of being a 2012 Olympic athlete, and the transition to practising as an employment lawyer
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Melbourne to London
As a trainee in Norton Rose’s Melbourne office I completed a six-month seat in the restructuring & insolvency team, followed by six months in the equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions team, before jet-setting off to London to complete my third seat.
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The legal education market is for those who will make a lot of money
The impact of the NCLT’s decision to scrap its courses on human rights law
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South Africa report - Commonwealth Mooting Champions 2013
One of the many rewards of having won the ESU/Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition was being selected to represent the United Kingdom at the 2013 Commonwealth Moot.
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One year in law reform
My first ‘proper job’ following graduation has been at the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) in Edinburgh.
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Political animal
During my first-year undergraduate studies in Constitutional Law, I decided to apply for an internship which would provide me with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how the European institutions work and interact, how legislation is made and passed, and the implications of this for the United Kingdom.
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Rising tax stars
Having been an intern in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s tax department, I had the unique chance of experiencing the day-to-day life of a city law firm within one of the biggest tax teams in the UK.
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Mooting - behind the spotlight
Mooting can be an excellent way of boosting your CV - but you don’t have to moot to enjoy the benefits the activity brings. James Roden talks us through some of the ways he found to use the experience even when he wasn’t mooting.
