First year was about finding your feet. Second year is where you start actually building, and it’s arguably the most enjoyable year to do it, because the pressure of placements is still far enough away that you can explore freely,...

If second year was for exploring, third year is where it starts to count. There’s a reason people call it the turning point: the exposure you’ve gathered should now start converging into a direction, your internships should get more targeted,...

The specialisation question has a way of making smart students freeze. Everyone seems to be confidently “into corporate” or “doing litigation”, and you’re sitting there thinking you have no idea, and that not knowing means something’s wrong with you. It...

“Networking” is a word that makes a lot of law students cringe; it sounds like collecting business cards and being fake at events. So let me redefine it before we start: networking is just building genuine professional relationships over time....

Here’s a reassuring truth that more law students should hear early in their journey: a law degree is one of the most versatile qualifications you can have. Studying law doesn’t lock you into a single career path. Instead, it opens...

Interviews feel unpredictable, but the truth is that most legal interview questions fall into a handful of predictable buckets. Prepare the buckets, and almost nothing blindsides you. Think of this as your prep list, 25 questions, grouped by type, with...

Here’s the fear that keeps many candidates awake the night before a litigation interview: “What if they give me a problem and I don’t know the law?” The good news is that, in most interviews, they aren’t testing whether you...

A lot of interview anxiety isn’t about hard legal questions; it’s about your own CV. You wrote “researched arbitration law” eight months ago, and now a partner is leaning in, asking you to explain exactly what you did. If your...

The salary question makes almost everyone tense up, especially early in your career. Say a number too high and you worry you’ll price yourself out. Too low and you’ll get anchored there for years. So you freeze. Here’s the reassuring...

Somewhere between courtroom dramas and speeches about law being a noble profession, the reality of an ordinary legal career often gets lost. But that’s the career you’ll actually live. So it’s worth looking beyond the myths and understanding what the...