Tag: Legal education
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...
Danger! High Voltage: The College Of Law Ad Causing Chaos On The Tube
I spotted this ad for the College of Law on the Tube at King’s Cross...
‘Train To Be a Lawyer In Just One Year’: Too Good To Be True?
In February, I mentioned an advert for the London College of Law (not to be...
Going, Gone: Bemusement As Law School’s Facebook LPC Place ‘Reverse Auction’ Is Over In Seconds
Earlier this month, the National College of Legal Training (NCLT) announced, to much fanfare, that...
Persuading The Law School Turkeys To Vote For Christmas
Yesterday I urged the assembled luminaries at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum to do something...
EXCLUSIVE: BPTC Students Point Finger At Bar Standards Board Following ‘Disastrous’ And ‘Unfair’ Exams
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has had a bad week. First, Richard Moorhead publicly slammed...
If You Can’t Go To The Best Uni In Town, Should You Find a Smaller Town?
Following last week’s Queen Mary v Durham debate, I received this email from another student....
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...
SOLD: College Of Law Cashes In At Younger Generation’s Expense In Private Equity Deal
Introducing Baroness Helena Kennedy last night at the College of Law’s “Diversity at the Bar”...
‘The Prestige Factor’: Queen Mary or Durham For Law?
Last week I received this email from a student: “The prestige factor” is a major...
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...
An LLM Can ‘Count Against’ Training Contract Hunters
LLMs are intellectually tough, time-consuming and not all law firms like them, warns LegalAware Students...
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...
EXCLUSIVE: BPTC Providers’ Wildly Differing Exam Lengths Provoke Unfairness Accusations
BPTC students are up in arms about the wildly differing lengths of exam times between...
Does Studying Law Destroy Your Soul?
Until recently LPC student Cat Pond was an empathetic, liberal type, but the law has...
LPC Student In ‘I HATE COLLEGE OF LAW’ Facebook Rant
The College of Law’s Facebook page is usually a happy place, where wannabe lawyers post...
#RoundMyKitchenTable Exam Special: How Do You Revise And Apply For Jobs?
Taking a rare break from revising for his Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) exams, barrister-to-be...
EXCLUSIVE: College of Law Drops US Degree Course
For the last few years, the College of Law’s (CoL) strategy has been to present...
Legal Education: It’s All About Emotions
As the legal education review continues, two Nottingham Law School lecturers are calling for a...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: Aldridge & Poulter Analyse Week’s Legal News
Journalist Alex Aldridge and solicitor Kevin Poulter discuss the week’s legal news over a bottle...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: TAKING A GAP YEAR TO SECURE A TRAINING CONTRACT
Law graduates Flora Duguid and Cathryn Kozlowski have both opted to take gap years before...