Tag: Students

Dundee ranks HIGHER than LSE, UCL and Durham in law degree league table
Cambridge bagged top spot -- again

Pupillage award minimum to jump by as much as 40%
BSB brings rookie pay in line with living wage

‘I’m a former magic circle lawyer with 20 years’ experience in legal education — this is how to secure a training contract’
A sneak peek at the hints and tips The University of Law's professor Alexis Mavrikakis will share at this evening's Secrets to Success event

BPP suspends law degree in face of solicitor super-exam
Exclusive: LLB on pause so law school can 'design programmes for the future'

Solicitor super-exam takes centre stage as legal education and training thought leaders debate future of profession
Technology, innovation, barrister training and apprenticeships thrust into spotlight

Video: What’s the best thing about being a brand ambassador at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner?
Global outfit’s current bunch share highlights, as applications open for 12 new ambassadors

Just 11 black law students admitted to Oxford University in three years
Six percent of black students that applied accepted offers -- the same is true of 20% of white applicants

Nottingham Trent law student ordered to pay £500 compensation following ‘disgusting’ racist chanting incident
19-year-old 'truly sorry' after footage of verbal onslaught went viral

Event: Secrets to Success London — with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, CMS, Gowling WLG and Pinsent Masons at ULaw Moorgate
Top lawyers share their secrets to success; students ask the questions

Exclusive SQE survey: sceptical students rank practical skills training over value for money — and want more lawtech courses
Legal Cheek research on the future of legal education and training revealed

Freshfields to offer solicitor apprenticeships in Manchester
They will include super exam prep

South Bank Uni, ULaw and BPP set to overhaul undergraduate law degrees to prepare students for solicitor super-exam
Exclusive: Taking the SQE plunge

Event: How to make it as a barrister
With Cornerstone, Hardwicke, Radcliffe, Serjeants’ Inn, LPC Law and ULaw

Law exam pressure is really getting to me — I’m tempted to drop out now
Third-year law student asks for readers' advice on how to overcome the final hurdle

How one Westminster law student makes money photographing her law revision notes
50,000 people follow her journey through law school

Queen’s University Belfast vlogger beats 1,500 students to win trip to HSF’s Australia offices
Watch Morven Ross’ video and the seven other finalists below

Herbert Smith Freehills opens new Canary Wharf office
Firm joins Clifford Chance in ‘Manhattan on the Thames’

How one global law firm is preparing for the end of the GDL and LPC
Ahead of the Future of Legal Education and Training Conference on 23 May, Hogan Lovells training principal Crispin Rapinet talks about his firm’s plans for the new solicitor super-exam

Kirkland & Ellis boosts LPC grant to £10,000
Matching moves by the magic circle, Herbert Smith Freehills and Hogan Lovells

Durham Law School teams up with BARBRI to offer New York and California bar course
Exclusive: New students to start in September

The super-exam uncertainty that lies ahead
The SQE presents an opportunity 'to do something dynamic and innovative', says ULaw chief Peter Crisp, if a clear framework can be agreed