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

Sep 1 2015 7:00pm

ULaw pulls plug on business school just weeks after launch

Opening of highly touted De Broc is shelved indefinitely owing to low student interest

Aug 28 2015 3:50pm

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

Aug 28 2015 10:30am

August picture caption competition

Legal Cheek revives its occasional series with a romantic image of a young barrister in London town

Aug 27 2015 4:36pm

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

Aug 27 2015 9:16am

White & Case defects from University of Law to BPP

New Yorkers' London office cuts GDL and LPC deal with ULaw's arch-rival

Aug 26 2015 9:17am

Law graduate flogs degree online in bid to clear university debts

Enterprising American attempts to cash in by flogging degree

Aug 25 2015 4:14pm

Irwin Mitchell bucks trend by boosting trainee intake

Alternative business structure law firm ramps up recruitment by 37.5% while City players cut numbers

Aug 25 2015 3:19pm

Kaplan Law School to close

Third largest player in England and Wales legal education market takes a nosedive after eight years in business

Aug 25 2015 11:35am

Campaigners bid to block development plans that would ‘devastate’ Inner Temple library

Online petition launched, but so far signatures are sparse

Aug 24 2015 9:43am

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?

Aug 21 2015 10:03am

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

Aug 20 2015 9:41am

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

Aug 19 2015 11:19am

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

Aug 19 2015 9:25am

Law student was Briton killed in Bangkok terror attack

Vivian Chan was doing a law degree at BPP University in London

Aug 18 2015 3:34pm

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

Aug 18 2015 12:27pm

Law student summers: expectations vs reality

The time has come to pause and reflect on the past few months

Aug 18 2015 10:00am

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

Aug 18 2015 9:02am

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

Aug 17 2015 12:18pm

The 6 most ridiculous legal stories of the silly season so far

The best law-related summer frippery

Aug 14 2015 9:46am