University of Law strikes training deal with RPC
International outfit finds new law school to develop its future legal talent
Legal Practice Course
Why I regret my magic circle training contract
Career mistakes: Legal Cheek meets a soon-to-be NQ, a paralegal and an LPC student
ULaw strikes LPC and GDL deal with the University of Reading
Postgrad courses on offer at Berkshire-based campus from this September
It’s official: The LPC and GDL are being scrapped
Solicitor super-exam will replace traditional routes to qualification as soon as September 2020
It will cost you over £500 more to do the LPC this year than it would have done last year
2017/2018 price list shows fees up by as much as 11% at some universities
New solicitor super-exam could prevent ‘less affluent’ students entering the profession, warns Junior Lawyers Division
Despite the SRA claiming qualification will be ‘substantially cheaper’
ULaw strikes LPC training deal with Howard Kennedy
Single office City firm will continue to pay is trainees fees
SRA moves a step closer to killing off LPC and GDL as super-exam proposals gather pace
But solicitors’ regulator performs U-turn on degree requirement
ULaw teams up with top European business school to create new ‘commercial awareness’ course for wannabe lawyers
LPC course receives optional business-focused bolt-on
BPP poaches top sports law firm from ULaw in future trainee deal
North west outfit Brabners strikes LPC deal that kicks off this September
University of Law offers half price course fees for out-of-work LPC students
Wannabe lawyers will still receive a 50% rebate on LPC fees if they have failed to secure employment within nine months of graduating
BPP’s legal research exam thrown into chaos as LexisNexis goes down during assessment
Exclusive: LPC students left unable to access vital online law library
Aspiring City lawyers will still need to go to university even if super exam gets go-ahead
New SRA-backed proposals will remove the need for solicitors to have a degree — unless they work in the Square Mile
ULaw’s triple advocacy blunder: three emails sent to LPC students warning of material prep errors
Free printing credits offered to appease disgruntled students
Wannabe barristers face even more debt as fees are upped across BPTC providers
LPC fees are also up by as much as 6%
University of Hertfordshire suspends its LPC over concerns it may not be ‘valid in 2018’
Law school will offer restructured LLB incorporating new SRA proposals
Students may have to fork out as much as £127k to chase barrister dream
Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession
Is Gladbury actually High Wycombe? BPP to reveal identity of fictional law seminar town that has acquired cult following
Mystique around imaginary town that has inspired tribute parties to be shattered
LPC student goes public to reveal anger after ULaw lose her exam paper
Unmarked exam sat in tutor’s pigeon hole for three weeks before part of it was accidentally thrown out
The University of Law seems to think the former Soviet Union still exists
Looking to study the LPC? Still view yourself as a citizen of a dissolved communist superstate? Then ULaw has you covered
City firms’ horror at plan to let people with no law degree or LPC qualify as solicitors without doing a training contract
Wisdom of regulator’s commitment to inclusivity questioned
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‘If The Firm Was a Person, How Would You Describe Them?
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Going, Gone: Bemusement As Law School’s Facebook LPC Place ‘Reverse Auction’ Is Over In Seconds
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BREAKING NEWS: Fire Alarm LPC Students WON’T Be Required To Re-Sit Exam
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EXCLUSIVE: Fire Alarm Causes LPC Exam To Be Abandoned Mid-Way Through
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LPC Student In ‘I HATE COLLEGE OF LAW’ Facebook Rant
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People are poking fun at The Times after it described the Offences Against the Person Act as a ‘Victorian-era law’ 
City solicitor turned East End teacher set to send 95% of pupils to Russell Group unis 
Paralegal who worked for two firms at the same time barred from legal profession 
Tieless at Travers: City law firm ditches corporate dress code in favour of new casual approach 
Strictly Come Dancing: Glasgow law graduate and ex-corporate lawyer Susan Calman announced as contestant
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