Tag: Students
How the UK’s first teaching law firm will prepare students for the SQE
Nottingham Law School’s Executive Dean Jenny Chapman on the role of clinical legal training in a super-exam world
Super-exam questions to be checked for ‘cultural bias’ so BAME candidates not disadvantaged
Regulator plans to recruit diverse pool of question writers and assessors
SQE latest: City Consortium’s non-law trainees will need to complete GDL-style conversion course
Exclusive: Influential group of six also hope future rookies will sit both parts of super-exam prior to starting TCs
Salford Uni law student killed in ‘senseless’ drive-by shooting
Murder investigation launched following death of Aya Hachem on Sunday
Oxford University lays out blueprint for training future lawyers in the tech age
Skills gaps must be filled to meet client demand for tech-enhanced legal services, say academics
Manchester University confirms all law lectures from next term will be delivered online
Social distancing measures may remain in place for some time meaning traditional fresher experience could look very different
Not being allowed to work from home among top COVID-19 concerns to lawyer-wellbeing helpline
LawCare stats released to mark start of Mental Health Awareness Week
Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online
As Eversheds explores similar option
Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life
BPP, Hertfordshire and Plymouth law schools recognised for pro bono efforts
Trio scoop LawWorks gongs
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