Legal education and training review
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Five Ways To Solve The Pupillage Crisis
The chairman of the Bar Council was recently reported in the Evening Standard saying that…
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Solicitors’ Profession Could Face a ‘Lost Generation Of Talent’
Three weeks on from the scrapping of the trainee minimum wage and the decision looks…
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Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas
Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something…
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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…
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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…
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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…