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ULaw students hit out after they’re told to defer to get cheaper GDL and LPC fees

Exclusive: Law school giant slashes cost of online courses by up to £3,000 for 2019 academic year, leaving some current students unhappy

Nov 29 2018 4:16pm
Mayer Brown boosts junior lawyer pay to £78,000

Trainee salaries and LPC maintenance grant also up

Sep 5 2018 8:50am
Sidley Austin tops market by hiking LPC maintenance grant to £11,000

An uplift of nearly 60%

Sep 4 2018 9:58am
White & Case boosts LPC grant by 40% to £10,500

Surpasses recent uplifts by a host of top City firms

Aug 29 2018 10:09am
Norton Rose Fulbright ups LPC grant by 43% to £10,000

Exclusive: Matching money moves made by the magic circle, Kirkland & Ellis, HSF and Hogan Lovells

Jun 14 2018 8:58am
Kirkland & Ellis boosts LPC grant to £10,000

Matching moves by the magic circle, Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells

May 16 2018 9:08am

Slaughter and May sacks two future trainees for failing LPC modules

Cut-throat world of corporate law laid bare

May 1 2018 11:21am
Hogan Lovells bumps LPC grant by 43% to £10,000

Matching moves by the magic circle and Herbert Smith Freehills

Apr 6 2018 2:26pm
Herbert Smith Freehills becomes latest firm to boost LPC grant to £10,000

Global law firm matches five-figure sum awarded by magic circle outfits

Apr 5 2018 12:46pm
ULaw strikes LPC and GDL deal with Liverpool University

Despite SRA plans to scrap both courses

Mar 9 2018 12:14pm
‘I’m a future magic circle trainee, yet I’ll be living in an Airbnb during my LPC because I can’t afford London rent’

One Legal Cheek commenter shares their take on law firm maintenance grants

Jan 19 2018 10:17am
Hertfordshire University relaunches LPC following super-exam suspension

Law school had pressed pause over concerns course would soon be redundant

Jan 9 2018 4:07pm

University of Law strikes training deal with RPC

International outfit finds new law school to develop its future legal talent

Jul 24 2017 2:45pm
Why I regret my magic circle training contract

Career mistakes: Legal Cheek meets a soon-to-be NQ, a paralegal and an LPC student

Jun 20 2017 10:04am
ULaw strikes LPC and GDL deal with the University of Reading

Postgrad courses on offer at Berkshire-based campus from this September

May 22 2017 12:49pm
It’s official: The LPC and GDL are being scrapped

Solicitor super-exam will replace traditional routes to qualification as soon as September 2020

Apr 25 2017 11:30am
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

Mar 20 2017 1:38pm
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’

Feb 15 2017 11:06am

ULaw strikes LPC training deal with Howard Kennedy

Single office City firm will continue to pay is trainees fees

Jan 19 2017 1:12pm
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

Oct 3 2016 2:50pm
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

Sep 28 2016 2:26pm