Education

Nathalie Tidman

The news that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has directed partners, associates and trainees in London and Manchester to come into the…

Thomas Alan

For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court conducted a case entirely through video conferencing this morning (24 March),…

Thomas Alan

Big Four giant Deloitte has teamed up with the University of Law (ULaw) to launch a work-based training contract for…

Catherine Wycherley

Look out law schools, there is a disrupter in town. Naturally, that town is Silicon Valley, the home of innovation.…

Legal Business

Super-exam to be used from September 2020 Despite some considerable hostility, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced last month that…

Kathryn McCann

Burges Salmon has become one of the first law firms to hire legal apprentices under the Government’s new Trailblazers Apprenticeship…

Kathryn McCann

Magic Circle firms have taken a ‘disappointing’ approach to the government-backed scheme, the Trailblazers Apprenticeship in Law initiative, with both…

Legal Business

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has stepped in to the long-simmering debate on costs and access to the profession to…

Legal Business

Following calls from students and chambers, the Bar Council is moving its Pupillage Gateway timetable so applicants know the outcome…

Legal Business

Preliminary Law Society figures estimate more than 250 firms will be hit by the 0.5% payroll tax to supplement apprenticeships…

Kathryn McCann

ITV has become the first company to offer a solicitor apprenticeship under the new Trailblazers Apprenticeship in Law initiative.

Legal Business

Eighteen major law firms, including Linklaters, Macfarlanes, White & Case and Sullivan & Cromwell, have joined a new initiative to…

Legal Business

Recent efforts to improve social mobility within the legal profession are having little-to-no effect at the Bar and within the…

Legal Business

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has inched closer to controversial apprenticeship qualifications while green lighting a raft of changes to…

Legal Business

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is looking to carry out the ‘most sweeping reforms to Bar training in a generation’…

Daniel Coyne

Jonathan Ball of Norton Rose Fulbright initially worked as a scientist before becoming a lawyer, and is now an Intellectual…

Legal Business

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board yesterday (21 May) formally approved an overhaul of its training regulations and continuing professional…

Francesca Fanshawe

Barclays’ in-house legal team is to offer around 80 work experience placements to students from socio-economic groups under-represented in the…

Richard Moorhead

Nigel Hudson has written an interesting post on LPC numbers. He says (among other things): ‘The number of students enrolled…

Legal Business

The market for legal services will never be the same again. Mergers, alternative business structures, multi-disciplinary practices, law firm failures, onshoring, offshoring and the continual…