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

Salford Uni law student killed in ‘senseless’ drive-by shooting
Murder investigation launched following death of Aya Hachem on Sunday

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

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

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

Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online
As Eversheds explores similar option

Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life

BPP, Hertfordshire and Plymouth law schools recognised for pro bono efforts
Trio scoop LawWorks gongs

Linklaters’ lawyer scoops £32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Peter Hudson foiled in bid for more dosh by question about charities

COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline
Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic

Kaplan given go-ahead to assess solicitor apprentices
Follows appointment to run SQE

Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown
Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office

COVID-19: Bar exams to go online
But not before August

Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%
International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic

Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist
Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts

Kent University launches coronavirus LLM
New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response

A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme
Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online

Aspiring lawyer successfully sues twin sister for £96,000 after she crashed car while sneezing
Injuries hinder future legal career, court finds

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

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

Eversheds introduces scheme to vary lawyers’ hours and pay according to workflow
Doesn't apply to trainees