Tag: Legal education and training review

The key points of the Legal Education and Training Review explained in 10 tweets

For those who don’t fancy wading through the traditional legal press’s long-winded deconstructions of the...

Jun 25 2013 1:23pm

What Has Happened To The Legal Education And Training Review Final Report?

The final report of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) – potentially the biggest shake-up...

Jan 3 2013 10:15am

Please, No More ‘Nietzsche And The Law’! Why Americans Are Looking Enviously At The GDL Route To Legal Qualification

In comparison to our odd system of legal education – which sprawls haphazardly from the...

Oct 23 2012 12:50pm

Noses Back To The Grindstone: What Will The New Academic Year Bring For Law Students And Trainees?

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge and Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the big...

Sep 3 2012 12:53pm

COMPETITION: 2,000 Words On Legal Education Wins £500, 500 Words Wins a Matching Cap And T-Shirt Set…

The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society (JLD) has launched an essay competition for...

Jul 17 2012 5:42pm

A Neat Solution To The Legal Education And Training Puzzle

At the end of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium yesterday, I got...

Jul 12 2012 2:13pm

Bar Social Mobility Week: Northerners Need Not Apply

This week is Bar social mobility placement week, with 69 high-achieving students from low-performing state...

Jul 12 2012 10:29am

Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis

The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that...

Jun 12 2012 1:29pm

Solicitors’ Profession Could Face a ‘Lost Generation Of Talent’

Three weeks on from the scrapping of the trainee minimum wage and the decision looks...

Jun 7 2012 10:05am

Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas

Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something...

May 23 2012 10:37am

Legal Education Review Chief Slams ‘Gross Inability’ Of BPTC Students

Senior members of the legal profession have a tendency to shy away from telling it...

Apr 23 2012 9:33am

If You Put Trainee Solicitors On Housing Benefits, You Cut The Price Of Law School, Right?

Following the announcement by the Law Society that trainee solicitors on housing benefit is “not...

Apr 13 2012 1:04pm

Should Law Schools Refund Students if They Can’t Get a Job?

In a move that may interest jobless British law graduates and the bigwigs on the...

Feb 28 2012 2:50pm