Tag: Solicitors Regulation Authority
Jobless Graduates Left At Whim Of Law Firms’ Make-It-Up-As-You-Go-Along Recruitment Procedures
Last month Kearns Solicitors placed an advert in Counsel magazine seeking LPC and BPTC graduates...
Solicitors’ Profession Could Face a ‘Lost Generation Of Talent’
Three weeks on from the scrapping of the trainee minimum wage and the decision looks...
NAMED: The Law Firm Requiring Grads To Self-Fund a £9.5K Paralegal Training Course Before They’re Considered For a TC
EXCLUSIVE: In March, Legal Cheek published a story about a firm that was asking law...
Four Reasons Why The Trainee Minimum Wage Had To Go
You heard it here first, a full hour before any other publication, and it’s now...
EXCLUSIVE: Desperate LPC Student Places ‘Come And Get Me’ Advert in Law Society Magazine
Training contract numbers may be on the increase again, but times are still hard for...
PODCAST: Scrap Trainee Minimum Salary And ‘Only The Rich’ Will Become Solicitors, Says Junior Lawyers Division Chief
The minimum trainee salary debate is developing into quite a fight – with the latest...
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...
Trainee Solicitors: Heading Downmarket?
The Law Society has said that trainee solicitors on housing benefit is “not the type...
Trainee Solicitors Could Earn Just £5,408 a Year If Minimum Wage Scrapped
Trainee solicitors could be re-classified as apprentices – and see their salaries tumble to just...
REVEALED: £30K Buys a TC, £9K a Paralegal Post
Earlier this month, Jonathan Fagan, managing director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, received an email from...
BREAKING NEWS: Fire Alarm LPC Students WON’T Be Required To Re-Sit Exam
Good news for LPC students at Liverpool John Moores University whose business law and practice...
EXCLUSIVE: Fire Alarm Causes LPC Exam To Be Abandoned Mid-Way Through
LPC students at Liverpool John Moores University are in limbo after a fire alarm went...
Minimum Trainee Solicitor Salary May Be Scrapped – Will Minimum Pupillage Award Be Next?
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said there’s no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old...
Accutrainee Chief Hits Back at Critics
Follow @Accutrainee Founder of new cut-price training contract scheme responds to recent criticism from Legal...
LEGAL BODY IN FRESH ONLINE BLUNDER
Follow @pondcat First, the bar’s awful ‘Pupillage Portal’; now the solicitors’ regulator has run into...