Tag: COVID-19

COVID-19: City law furloughs and pay freezes continue

Outfits take financial measures to protect jobs amid pandemic

Apr 14 2020 3:38pm

Trainees should qualify on time as Professional Skills Course moves online, says regulator

Law school giants ULaw, BPP and BARBRI Altior make provisions to deliver large number of modules remotely

Apr 14 2020 9:43am

Paralegal loses job after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ COVID-19

Criminal defence firm VHS Fletchers disowns former employee

Apr 9 2020 1:09pm

City law firms introduce belt-tightening measures in wake of COVID-19

Furloughs, pay cuts and partner profit deferrals

Apr 9 2020 12:11pm

Hogan Lovells makes training contract offers early as it cancels summer vacation schemes

Exclusive: Some candidates offered winter vacation scheme places

Apr 9 2020 11:22am

Eversheds Sutherland launches chatroom app to combat lawyer loneliness during lockdown

Open House features range of discussion areas including wellbeing, hobbies and kidzone

Apr 8 2020 10:43am

Top City firms freeze junior lawyer pay in response to virus pandemic

HSF, Freshfields and A&O among outfits to introduce belt-tightening measures

Apr 8 2020 9:23am

COVID-19: Clifford Chance summer vacation scheme goes virtual

New online offering to feature networking sessions, cooking and yoga classes too

Apr 7 2020 4:53pm

Don’t launch solicitor super-exam during a global pandemic

Durham Uni Law School chief urges regulator to postpone SQE

Apr 7 2020 10:43am

Coronavirus has got nothing on the 2008 financial crisis, says ex-Clifford Chance boss

Tony Williams reckons the pandemic is less of a threat to law firms than the crash

Apr 7 2020 9:18am

Lawyers lead country as Raab steps in for hospitalised PM and Starmer wins Labour crown

Ex-Links associate and Doughty Street barrister in the spotlight

Apr 6 2020 11:07am

Trainees flock home to mum and dad amid coronavirus pandemic

Be a magic circle hotshot from your childhood bedroom

Apr 6 2020 9:22am

Video: Legal life before and after COVID-19

From City law to social distancing

Apr 3 2020 1:50pm

‘Will coronavirus cost me my magic circle TC?’

I'm due to start in August 2022

Apr 3 2020 11:14am

30% of pupillage places in limbo, COVID-19 survey finds

Barrister hopefuls face anxious wait

Apr 3 2020 10:34am

Norton Rose Fulbright asks lawyers to work four-day week in response to virus crisis

Global giant adopted similar measures during 2008-9 financial crisis

Apr 2 2020 7:55pm

COVID-19: What it means for aspiring lawyers

Commercial insights and careers advice courtesy of four experts

Apr 2 2020 2:44pm

Cambridge Uni law students express ‘serious concern’ over COVID-19 exam plans

Some undergrads won't be given formal 2:2, 2:1 and first classifications under current proposals

Apr 1 2020 3:40pm

Virus pandemic: Why the UK must release immigration detainees

The detention of migrants who do not pose a risk is dangerous, callous and illegal, argues Oxford University PPE student James Cox

Apr 1 2020 12:51pm