Tag: Students

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

Anglia Ruskin law student handed suspended sentence after threatening fellow undergrad with kitchen knife in row over cooking pot
Pair separated by a student accommodation caretaker after fight broke out
Event: Innovation in the law — with Pinsent Masons in Glasgow
Commercial Awareness Question Time comes to Scotland
Women dominate BPTC enrolments, but more men score top marks
Even when they have the same undergraduate degree results

‘My cerebral palsy may affect my speech and mobility, but it won’t stop me becoming a barrister’
Law graduate Daniel Holt hopes to start BPTC this September and is 'very confident' he'll secure pupillage

Tort lawyers won’t be required in 30 years, suggests top judge
Could Donoghue v Stevenson be ditched from law school syllabuses?

A ‘golden ticket’ to training contract glory, or losing its shine? Legal Cheek explores the Oxbridge law degree
Recruitment teams still dazzled by high-status law schools, despite so-so performance in rankings

‘The SQE is a floor on which we can build things, not a ceiling to limit us’
Adam Curphey, White & Case solicitor turned head of innovation technology at BPP University Law School, discusses the growing importance of lawtech as a theme in vocational training

What would Donna do? Seven lessons learnt from Suits’ Donna Paulsen
Aspiring lawyer Christianah Babajide thinks there's plenty law students can learn from the iconic TV character

10 pieces of commercial awareness gold for students applying for training contracts
From cryptocurrencies to big data, politics and beyond

A magic circle firm or a top US firm? I have a training contract offer from both and don’t know which to pick
Aspiring lawyer would appreciate readers' advice