Tag: Solicitors

Dentons four-day week gets go-ahead

Staff vote in favour of move to curb financial impact of pandemic

May 21 2020 10:03am

Linklaters announces two-week virtual vacation scheme with three weeks’ pay

COVID-19: Last of the magic fivesome to reveal student summer plans

May 21 2020 9:15am

How the UK’s first teaching law firm will prepare students for the SQE

Nottingham Law School’s Executive Dean Jenny Chapman on the role of clinical legal training in a super-exam world

May 19 2020 1:45pm

Super-exam questions to be checked for ‘cultural bias’ so BAME candidates not disadvantaged

Regulator plans to recruit diverse pool of question writers and assessors

May 19 2020 12:24pm

SQE latest: City Consortium’s non-law trainees will need to complete GDL-style conversion course

Exclusive: Influential group of six also hope future rookies will sit both parts of super-exam prior to starting TCs

May 19 2020 9:33am

Oxford University lays out blueprint for training future lawyers in the tech age

Skills gaps must be filled to meet client demand for tech-enhanced legal services, say academics

May 18 2020 12:30pm
Mental health

Not being allowed to work from home among top COVID-19 concerns to lawyer-wellbeing helpline

LawCare stats released to mark start of Mental Health Awareness Week

May 18 2020 10:31am

An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts

They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures

May 15 2020 9:48am

Linklaters’ lawyer scoops £32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Peter Hudson foiled in bid for more dosh by question about charities

May 14 2020 3:28pm

Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown

Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office

May 14 2020 8:58am

Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%

International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic

May 13 2020 12:11pm

Why lawyers of the 2020s need to force themselves out their comfort zone

We sit down -- virtually, of course -- with LexisNexis’s Director Transformation, Kate Gaskell, ahead of her appearance at LegalEdCon on Thursday

May 12 2020 2:54pm

Vlogging magic circle trainee Eve Cornwell takes on Mike Ross in Suits mock trial

She gives herself only five minutes to construct a legal argument

May 12 2020 10:19am

How COVID-19 will impact law students

ULaw pro-vice chancellor Peter Crisp provides a big picture overview and draws parallels between the 2008 financial and coronavirus crises

May 11 2020 2:45pm

Trainee solicitor jailed for rape has sentence increased

Appeal court hands ex-Cripps rookie 16 year term after Solicitor General steps in

May 11 2020 1:00pm

JLD: Think again before prosecuting vulnerable lawyers

Open letter urges SRA to review approach where mental health or toxic working environments play role in alleged misconduct

May 11 2020 10:59am

How to create well-rounded lawyers of the future

Jo-Anne Pugh discusses BPP University Law School’s unique approach to the SQE and how it will prepare students for the assessments -- and for practice

May 7 2020 11:48am