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SQE prep provider launches £50k social mobility scholarship fund
Law Training Centre's 'Access to Law' scheme enables candidates to complete part one prep course for just £950
City Consortium outlines SQE plan for future trainees
11-month programme includes super-exam prep and 'bespoke' top-up course
Virtual student event TODAY: Build back better: Infrastructure in the post-Covid world — with Pinsent Masons
Wednesday 27 October, 4pm to 6pm, taking place virtually
Macfarlanes launches ‘app scheme’
TC hopefuls can now get the 'trainee experience' via their phones
Revealed: The extreme working hours of big-paying US law firms in London
Some junior lawyers are finishing work after 11pm most nights
Virtual student event TODAY: What corporate lawyers do — with Goodwin Procter, Squire Patton Boggs, DWF and BARBRI
Tuesday 26 October, 4pm to 6pm, taking place virtually
Disbarment for barrister who asked fellow lawyer to lie about sex assault
Handed suspended sentence earlier this year
Don’t scrap the bar aptitude test, urges Bar Council. Up the pass mark instead
BSB mulls ditching entry exam after report found fewer than 1% of wannabe barristers fail to pass it
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Top law professors pen letter in support of academic freedom
Intervention follows student protests targeting philosophy prof Kathleen Stock
BARBRI tests commercial awareness and creative thinking with new full SQE1 scholarship
What do you think the law firm of the future will look like?
Abertay law grad sues uni over probe into ‘offensive’ gender comments
Lisa Keogh was cleared of wrongdoing but is now taking legal action for 'stress caused at the most crucial part of my university career'
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
First practising female barrister commemorated with London blue plaque
Lady Hale unveiled the historical marker
Dechert boosts trainee salaries to £50k and £55k
Rises of up to 11% 💷
Virtual student event TODAY: How I made it into law — with Mayer Brown
Thursday 21 October, 3pm to 5pm, taking place virtually
Fund legal aid training contracts and pupillages, MPs and peers urge government
Cross-party group call on SRA to include social welfare modules in new SQE
Law firm partner workloads increase as remote working makes it more difficult to delegate to juniors and trainees, survey finds
Many outfits report rise in chargeable hours, especially at senior levels
Virtual student event TODAY: Challenging expectations in a new age of change — with Taylor Wessing
Wednesday 20 October, 4pm to 6pm, taking place virtually
Lawyers pound the pavements for charity
Over 8,000 walkers went the distance at yesterday's London Legal Walk