Tag: Students

Full video: SQE v LPC: which route is best for me?
BPP University careers experts weigh up the options available to future solicitors

Report flags differences in SQE pass rates between white and BAME candidates
Plus exam fee increases on the way

BARBRI and London South Bank to deliver SQE-LLM
London university to also offer QWE placements

How Macfarlanes is working to make law firm careers more accessible
Macfarlanes’ early legal careers senior manager Catherine Morgan-Guest speaks about the firm’s initiatives to broaden their recruitment pool

Government Legal Department reveals SQE plans
Also looks to increase trainee numbers

UK law firms ramp up rookie recruitment in Ireland
Simmons to double TC offering while Bird & Bird and Taylor Wessing plan scheme launches

The College of Legal Practice strikes SQE training partnership with national law firm
Clarke Wilmott gives 'most promising' paralegals opportunity to qualify as solicitors

‘Big Legal Lesson’ looks to teach school students their legal rights
New education campaign backed by Mishcon and the Law Society

Hogan Lovells becomes latest big legal player to offer solicitor apprenticeships
Recruitment begins later this year

‘I have my first pupillage interview. Any advice?’
Aspiring barrister seeks top tips

‘A training contract is like a marriage — you need to find the right one’
Ahead of Howard Kennedy’s application deadline next month, we ask Kerry Price, a trainee at the firm, for her top application tips

Solicitor apprenticeship expert and SRA education chief to join top lawfluencers at LegalEdCon 2023
📣 First speaker announcement

Bar course provider pass rates vary from 93% to just 22%, new report shows
More than half fail to score above 50%

Apprenticeship specialist creates new pathway for part-qualified aspiring solicitors
Damar Training says tie-up with BARBRI 'significantly widens access' to TC alternative

Legal Twitter reveals its craziest law firm merch
NRF ping pong balls? Or perhaps an Irwin Mitchell unicorn?

‘I f****** hate Constitutional Law’, says Kim Kardashian
Shares study update on Insta

Why it’s an exciting time to train as a lawyer in the North
Matt Tomlinson reflects on his career journey from solicitor to dean of The University of Law's Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle campuses, and shares what he loves about the North of England

City Law School grad uses GDL knowledge to fight former employer
Samantha Savory secures victory in employment tribunal

Bird & Bird becomes latest City player to embrace solicitor apprenticeships
School leavers start on £25k

Manchester Met launches SQE masters with College of Legal Practice tie-up
Two new LLM options through new combination

Opening doors to Black lawyers: How Shearman & Sterling is building a more inclusive workforce
A look inside the top US firm’s paid internship programme