Tag: coronavirus

Shoosmiths first firm to cancel 2020 summer vacation scheme amid COVID-19 disruption

Exclusive: Candidates will still be considered for training contracts

Mar 27 2020 11:00am

COVID-19: Financial uncertainty and tech woes force chambers to delay pupillage interviews

But majority to go ahead as planned, says Bar Council

Mar 27 2020 9:15am

Virus latest: Regulator to relax LPC exam rules

Law schools can apply to run assessments online to avoid delays, SRA confirms

Mar 25 2020 5:41pm

COVID-19: The toll on criminal justice

An already crumbling system finds itself in limbo

Mar 25 2020 10:10am

LPC exam delays will have ‘serious implications’ for training contract holders, junior lawyers warn

Junior Lawyers Division offers up alternatives including online exams and coursework

Mar 24 2020 10:59am

Vac scheme latest: White & Case, Latham, Mayer Brown and Sidley suspend spring programmes

London-based US law firms heed government advice

Mar 23 2020 2:00pm

COVID-19: MoJ lists which lawyers are ‘key workers’

Their children can attend school or nursery from today

Mar 23 2020 11:53am

London commercial set reverses decision to cancel pupillage recruitment round

Henderson Chambers says it will now defer interviews until summer following discussions with Bar Council

Mar 20 2020 11:38am

Virus pandemic: Further City law firms postpone spring vacation schemes

Norton Rose Fulbright, Addleshaw Goddard, Mishcon de Reya and HFW

Mar 20 2020 10:48am

Vlogging junior lawyers react to virus pandemic

Eve Cornwell shoots home office set-up while Chrissie Wolfe shares daily video 'diary' series

Mar 20 2020 9:13am

Virus pandemic: Baker McKenzie and Herbert Smith Freehills postpone spring vacation schemes

Along with Charles Russell Speechlys and Penningtons Manches Cooper

Mar 18 2020 12:08pm

Wealthy partners work from home while lowest paid staff are forced into the office, legal union claims

Legal Sector Workers United brands pandemic response a 'classist allocation of risk'

Mar 18 2020 11:23am

Don’t let students sit exams at home, SRA tells law schools

Regulator says supervised assessments must be maintained

Mar 18 2020 9:21am

Criminal barristers ask for early billing to ease potential cashflow crises

Coronavirus: Criminal Bar Association wants barristers to be paid before trials are over

Mar 17 2020 11:55am

Regulator postpones centralised BPTC exams

Decision follows new government guidance to combat spread of COVID-19

Mar 17 2020 11:16am

Slaughter and May postpones spring vacation scheme amid virus pandemic

As magic circlers Freshfields and A&O postpone first-year spring schemes

Mar 17 2020 9:04am

BPP postpones LPC exam following new government COVID-19 advice

Tomorrow's assessment due to take place at London's ExCeL centre will now be re-scheduled

Mar 16 2020 8:45pm

ULaw and City Law School to suspend face-to-face teaching in response to coronavirus

Both will switch online lectures from 23 March

Mar 16 2020 11:32am

Coronavirus: Linklaters postpones insight scheme as Taylor Wessing closes London office after employee tests positive

Host of City players trial remote working capabilities in wake of pandemic

Mar 13 2020 12:21pm