Tag: Students

More than 1,000 students join group legal action over teaching time lost to uni strikes
It could cost institutions millions, says London law firm spearheading claim

How the surge in LLB numbers is shaking up legal education
Fierce debate rages around how many law students can be taught by a single university

BSB asks chambers to provide details on how they pick their pupils
Regulator keen to identify potential 'unjustified' barriers to the bar

University says ‘no update’ on investigation into racism at Exeter Law School, one month after vile messages were made public
Five law students suspended after their WhatsApp conversations posted online

Queen Mary University student stabbed to death in East London wanted to become lawyer
Sami Sidhom was just 18-years-old

Private school slammed over bus ad showing boys as aspiring lawyers but girls becoming vocalists
£34,000-a-year school says aspirations are 'personal' to the students

From Shearman & Sterling’s LSE campus ambassador to second-seat trainee
Charlie Lord is now training at her dream firm -- but she may not have got there had she not been an ambassador first

Legal watchdog moves to quell MPs’ super-exam fears after dismissing calls to delay approval
SQE received provisional go-ahead last month

Incredible BPTC handbook advises students to wear ‘double breasted’ jackets in their advocacy exam — and says they’ll be marked down for wearing ‘kinky boots’
Points also deducted for drinking from water bottles

Crowdfunding success: LSE students awarded compensation over mouldy halls of residence
Outed 'severe rodent infestations' and 'noisy construction works'

Graduate recruiters need to realise some law modules are harder than others
Some firms don't even look at what subjects you've studied

Cocaine dealer’s Lidl checkout-working law student lover jailed after flaunting ‘Kim Kardashian’ lifestyle on Instagram
Handed 15-month prison term for acquiring criminal property

Wannabe barrister who overcame anorexia to study law at Oxford now crowdfunding her Cambridge masters degree
She hopes to raise £10,000 after spending childhood in care

Aspiring barrister petitions for ‘draconian’ BPTC exams to be open-book
Online appeal also argues assessments shouldn't be so close together

Student pro bono: New projects on autism, family courts and miscarriages of justice up for awards
Birmingham University storms shortlists with nominations in most categories

Hogan Lovells bumps LPC grant by 43% to £10,000
Matching moves by the magic circle and Herbert Smith Freehills

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

You can now Skype a Supreme Court justice
Lady Hale says she's looking forward to chatting to students in new outreach programme

This Westminster law student has THREE MILLION Instagram followers
Most followed law student in the country to forsake full-time modelling career for legal academia

SRA will not relax its rules for students caught up in university strikes
As students fight for compensation over lost lectures

‘I have two law degrees, now I sell juice made from wonky fruit for a living’
Maciek Kacprzyk on why he made the move from law to sustainable food production