Tag: Students

COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline
Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic

Kaplan given go-ahead to assess solicitor apprentices
Follows appointment to run SQE

COVID-19: Bar exams to go online
But not before August

Kent University launches coronavirus LLM
New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response

A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme
Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online

Why lawyers of the 2020s need to force themselves out their comfort zone
We sit down -- virtually, of course -- with LexisNexis’s Director Transformation, Kate Gaskell, ahead of her appearance at LegalEdCon on Thursday

Aspiring lawyer successfully sues twin sister for £96,000 after she crashed car while sneezing
Injuries hinder future legal career, court finds

Herbert Smith Freehills cancels 2020 summer vacation schemes
Exclusive: Candidates instead being invited to interview for TCs, with those successful offered place on virtual scheme

How COVID-19 will impact law students
ULaw pro-vice chancellor Peter Crisp provides a big picture overview and draws parallels between the 2008 financial and coronavirus crises

Slaughters, Bakers, Bird & Bird, Skadden and Debevoise move to virtual vacation schemes
New online offerings to mirror in-office experience but will be shorter than originally planned

How to create well-rounded lawyers of the future
Jo-Anne Pugh discusses BPP University Law School’s unique approach to the SQE and how it will prepare students for the assessments -- and for practice

UK legal vacancies plunge 75% during pandemic
Job applications also tumble, new research reveals

Call for pupillage candidates to get more emotional support
Junior barrister Malvika Jaganmohan urges chambers to ditch 'rejection by silence' as she reflects on her own personal battles in candid blog post

City Law School to tempt law firms with ‘salad bar SQE’
James Catchpole, Associate Dean and LPC Director, is thinking creatively about changes to solicitor and barrister training

Deloitte scraps summer legal internships — offers interns £500 instead
Big Four player to run voluntary four-week virtual mentorship programme, as more law firms cancel vacation schemes in view of COVID-19

Kennedys launches SQE-ready solicitor apprenticeship for graduates
New 30-month TC alternative enables trainees to earn while they learn

BPP students to get taste of ‘real-world practice’ with virtual law firm launch
Law school giant teams up with AI specialist to create new tech learning tools

COVID-19: ULaw launches £750,000 career changer scholarship fund
Law school to provide support to those whose careers have been impacted by pandemic

How tech is revolutionising the way law students learn
BARBRI’s Professor Samuel Farkas on what we can glean from the global training provider’s US model and how it will shape its SQE plans

Keele University law lecturer channels inner Eminem in criminal law rap
'Intention! It gives me tension! Too many cases to mention!' ?

Meet the Insta-influencers combining fitness with law
Flexing their legal minds and muscles ? ?♀️