Category: News

SQE latest: City Consortium’s non-law trainees will need to complete GDL-style conversion course

Exclusive: Influential group of six also hope future rookies will sit both parts of super-exam prior to starting TCs

May 19 2020 9:33am

Salford Uni law student killed in ‘senseless’ drive-by shooting

Murder investigation launched following death of Aya Hachem on Sunday

May 18 2020 2:45pm

Oxford University lays out blueprint for training future lawyers in the tech age

Skills gaps must be filled to meet client demand for tech-enhanced legal services, say academics

May 18 2020 12:30pm

Manchester University confirms all law lectures from next term will be delivered online

Social distancing measures may remain in place for some time meaning traditional fresher experience could look very different

May 18 2020 11:13am
Mental health

Not being allowed to work from home among top COVID-19 concerns to lawyer-wellbeing helpline

LawCare stats released to mark start of Mental Health Awareness Week

May 18 2020 10:31am

Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online

As Eversheds explores similar option

May 18 2020 9:25am

Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’

Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life

May 15 2020 11:38am

Linklaters’ lawyer scoops £32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Peter Hudson foiled in bid for more dosh by question about charities

May 14 2020 3:28pm

COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline

Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic

May 14 2020 11:33am

Kaplan given go-ahead to assess solicitor apprentices

Follows appointment to run SQE

May 14 2020 10:26am

Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown

Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office

May 14 2020 8:58am

COVID-19: Bar exams to go online

But not before August

May 13 2020 1:17pm

Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%

International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic

May 13 2020 12:11pm

Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist

Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts

May 13 2020 11:24am

Kent University launches coronavirus LLM

New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response

May 13 2020 10:26am

A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme

Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online

May 13 2020 9:09am

Vlogging magic circle trainee Eve Cornwell takes on Mike Ross in Suits mock trial

She gives herself only five minutes to construct a legal argument

May 12 2020 10:19am

Herbert Smith Freehills cancels 2020 summer vacation schemes

Exclusive: Candidates instead being invited to interview for TCs, with those successful offered place on virtual scheme

May 12 2020 9:15am