Tag: Students
Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time at Norton Rose Fulbright
Get to the front of the training contract queue, with free places for 25 students up for grabs
UWE and ULaw students overturn 95% of Department of Work and Pensions ‘fit for work’ decisions — hauling in £1million
Law students 1 - 0 Iain Duncan Smith
ULaw pulls plug on business school just weeks after launch
Opening of highly touted De Broc is shelved indefinitely owing to low student interest
The Judge Rules: Bye-bye LPC and training contract, hello unified bar exam
Kaplan’s demise triggers speculation that a streamlined qualification process will arrive sooner than many anticipated
August picture caption competition
Legal Cheek revives its occasional series with a romantic image of a young barrister in London town
Bar Council snubs legal aid chambers over pupillage fair rates
Organisers claim event will widen pool of applicants, but class divisions between haves and have-nots will be clearly on display
White & Case defects from University of Law to BPP
New Yorkers' London office cuts GDL and LPC deal with ULaw's arch-rival
Law graduate flogs degree online in bid to clear university debts
Enterprising American attempts to cash in by flogging degree
Irwin Mitchell bucks trend by boosting trainee intake
Alternative business structure law firm ramps up recruitment by 37.5% while City players cut numbers
Kaplan Law School to close
Third largest player in England and Wales legal education market takes a nosedive after eight years in business
Campaigners bid to block development plans that would ‘devastate’ Inner Temple library
Online petition launched, but so far signatures are sparse
The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware
How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?
Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’
But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game
Aspiring barrister and ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal killed in family home
The 31-year-old woman was found dead at a property in northwest London at the end of last week
University of Law extends money back guarantee to out-of-work GDL students
Fee rebate scheme could see ULaw paying out more to students who fail to bag jobs after graduating
Law student was Briton killed in Bangkok terror attack
Vivian Chan was doing a law degree at BPP University in London
BPP big wigs silent as failed students are reported sacked from training contracts
Accelerated course disaster for seven wannabes -- but law school won’t comment
Law student summers: expectations vs reality
The time has come to pause and reflect on the past few months
Bar students are getting even worse at ethics, official report shows
If four-year trend continues, more than half of those on the BPTC are likely to fail ethics module at first go next year
Oxford University law student jailed for punching woman in nightclub
A 20 year-old Oxford law student gets nine-months' porridge after conviction for “sustained assault” on a young woman that left her with a broken nose
The 6 most ridiculous legal stories of the silly season so far
The best law-related summer frippery