What are the unique legal considerations surrounding the growing popularity of NFTs?

Sparing a few minutes this Mental Health Awareness Week to think about your mental health and wellbeing could help you to start developing healthy habits that’ll build your resilience and enable you to flourish in your legal career.

What are the legal issues raised by the operations of taxi company Uber?

How will regulation of the financial services sector change in post-credit crunch Britain?

The holy month of Ramadan is a few weeks away, a time when Muslims don’t eat or drink while the sun is up to practise gratitude, discipline and worship. It can be difficult for students to balance this alongside their studies, but it’s manageable with the right preparation and mindset. Below is my advice on how to succeed academically during Ramadan. 

There’s a lot of newsworthy information from the past week, and we’re here to put the top stories on your radar with this week’s commercial news round-up.

From a young age, I knew that I wanted to attend university and pursue a career which was intellectual and challenging. However, messages that I had internalised – that my sexual orientation was ‘bad’ – and a vast lack of LGBTQ+ role models were barriers. My only lesbian ‘role models’ were celebrities, and as a result, I had a hard time imagining how ‘someone like me’ could achieve highly in the career path that I desired.

Is there a difference between private equity and venture capital?

Irrespective of the different covid-19 summative assessments styles that are implemented across universities, the overarching gist for all ‘timed open book assessments’ is that it sounds easy, but in fact it is quite challenging. Accordingly, here are three tips to help first-year students begin their preparations anew. 

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are values expected to exist in every organisation, they are the topic of almost every conversation.

It’s no secret that the portrayal of the legal world on TV is often dramatised and wildly inaccurate. Nevertheless, the shows and films I’ve put together can actually be helpful for law students, whether it’s for education or mere entertainment purposes. If watching legal dramas provides motivation for your studies or helps you retain just a few nuggets of useful information, they still have value. In fact, a Suits episode once helped me ask a question about the stock market in an interview! Below are my top 10 films/shows and takeaways.

What is the role of energy lawyers in combating climate change?

In this post I discuss the difficulties faced by separated parents who share parental responsibility for their child/ren and disagree on whether their child/ren should be vaccinated against covid-19.

One thing I didn’t consider when pursuing a career in law is whether I was prepared to sacrifice ‘me time’.

When I completed my LLB in 2020, I thought that it would either lead me to practise law as a solicitor or simply be better equipped in my well-established and ‘traditional’ career path within insurance.

Why do data protection and privacy issues keep global businesses up all night?

What do you need to know about the forthcoming ePrivacy Regulation?

The adventures of Cuthbert the Caterpillar and the backlash following the European Super League announcement are just two of the big commercial news stories this week. But how can you analyse these stories with a commercial mindset? Remember, there are various techniques (eg, PESTLE), which will help you on your way – read the summaries of this week’s news story picks below.

In this week’s round-up, we take a look at the COP28 summit (which began today), train strikes, controversy surrounding Nigel Farage and Spotify wrapped. Find out more in the round-up.