Solicitors Qualifying Exam

Regulator remains hopeful assessment will go ahead in November as planned

Accutrainee’s diversity initiative sees it team up with City outfits including CMS

BARBRI managing director, Sarah Hutchinson, explains how universities and law firms should advise aspiring lawyers from non-law backgrounds on their future qualification path

28 January virtual event marks super-exam launch year; speakers include key figures from law firms and legal education

Law Training Centre enters super-exam training market

SQE1 to take place on 8 and 11 November 2021, with SQE2 in April 2022

Kaplan acknowledges ‘attempted’ cheating on foreign lawyer exam it also runs

SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime

Legal education experts from BARBRI, Flex Legal, Reed Smith and Squire Patton Boggs discuss the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and how it is expected to shake up legal training

Tracy Savage, BARBRI’s academic head of UK programmes, discusses how the provider is using tech within its new SQE prep course and the skills lawyers of the future need to succeed

Fees still unknown

QLTS School package covers both SQE1 and SQE2; with exam fees it will slash total cost of qualifying as a solicitor to just over £7k; students can pay more for additional support

Paul de la Peña, tutor at ULaw Moorgate, reflects on his career as an insolvency and restructuring specialist and offers advice to the next gen of solicitors

Big Four player embraces solicitor training shake-up

BARBRI’s Victoria Cromwell on the steps her team are taking as the super-exam nears roll-out