Sports law is an exciting niche, and many students dream of it. Becoming a sports lawyer follows a commercial/IP path with a sports focus while being realistic about the niche. Let me give you a clear route.  Quick answer To...

You’ve written a good email; now comes a small but surprisingly stressful question: what do you actually attach? Send too little and you seem unprepared; send a folder of ten files and you seem like you don’t know what matters....

If your applications keep vanishing into silence, it’s tempting to blame luck or a crowded market. But often the real culprit is a handful of small, fixable mistakes that get an application mentally binned in the first few seconds, before...

Everyone tells interns to “do good work”, but almost nobody explains what good work product actually looks like from the other side of the desk. So you hand in your research or draft, unsure whether it’s genuinely useful or quietly...

LinkedIn can genuinely help your legal career, but only if you avoid the common mistakes that quietly undermine so many students and young lawyers. The good news is that these mistakes are easy to spot and easy to fix once...

Posting on LinkedIn feels intimidating, especially as a student or junior lawyer. Who am I to have opinions? What if I say something wrong? What if no one cares? These worries stop most people from ever posting, which is exactly...

You reached out, someone said yes to a chat, and you had a good conversation. Now what? Many students treat the chat itself as the finish line and then let the connection go cold. But the real value of a...

Recruiters and hiring lawyers do use LinkedIn to find and assess candidates, which means your profile can quietly work for you, bringing opportunities to you rather than you always chasing them. But that only happens if your profile is set...

Reaching out to a stranger on LinkedIn feels awkward, and many law students avoid it entirely or send generic messages that get ignored. But a thoughtful cold message is one of the most powerful ways to build connections, find mentors,...

The Featured section is one of LinkedIn’s most underused tools, especially by law students and young lawyers. It lets you pin your best work, writing or achievements near the top of your profile, where anyone can see it without digging....

The About section (sometimes called the summary) is the one place on LinkedIn where you get to speak in your own voice, at some length, about who you are. Most people either leave it blank or fill it with stiff,...

As a law student, LinkedIn can feel like a place for “real professionals”, not for you. But a good LinkedIn profile is one of the most useful career assets you can build early, and it costs you nothing but a...

Your LinkedIn headline is the single most-seen line on your entire profile. It follows your name everywhere: in search results, in comment sections, when you send a connection request, and when a recruiter scrolls a list of candidates. Most law...

Here’s something no one hands you on day one of an internship: the etiquette. Everyone around you seems to already know how to behave in a chamber or firm, how to speak to seniors, when to ask questions, and what...

First, if you have real options through both AILET and CLAT, well done; that’s a good problem to have. But it’s still a problem, because now you have to choose, and the two exams get talked about as if one...

Most law students think of LinkedIn as a place to have a profile, but it is also one of the most useful tools for actually finding internships and jobs if you know how to use it. Opportunities on LinkedIn come...

If college is ending and you don’t have a job lined up, the panic is real, and I want to say two things before anything else.  First: not having a job the moment you graduate is far more common than...

Almost every interview ends with the same question:  “Do you have any questions for us?” Many candidates, relieved that the interview is nearly over, reply, “No, I think you’ve covered everything.”  Don’t miss this opportunity. The questions you ask can...

Litigation interviews often feel less formal and more unpredictable than corporate interviews. Instead of a structured process with multiple rounds, you may find yourself having a brief, direct conversation with a busy senior advocate. That informality can make the interview...

You’ve already built something in another field: experience, skills, perhaps even a stable career. Yet you keep finding yourself drawn towards law. It’s natural, then, to wonder:  “Am I making a mistake? Am I throwing away everything I’ve worked for?” ...

Most people form their idea of “being a lawyer” from courtroom shows, a dramatic relative, or a half-remembered movie and then make real decisions based on that picture. No judgement; it’s how most of us start. But a wrong picture...