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It's the LPC, but not as you know it. Three pre-eminent course providers - BPP, The College of Law and Nottingham Law at Kaplan Law School - explain what the Solicitors Regulation Authority's proposed changes, due to take effect in 2009, will mean to their course provision and why the new look LPC could be just what you've been waiting for. Time to embrace change, people!
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Learn legalspeak in 10 minutes! OK, so we can't make you fluent, but here's an introduction to the most useful words you'll need to be a lawyer.
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With huge changes to the way it is remunerated and organised, legal aid work is not for the fainthearted. Is it the end of legal aid? Or is there light at the end of the legal aid tunnel? We talk to key figures in the sector to get their view on the legal aid landscape and find out what’s in store for the future.
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Students! Get in shape! That's the message from recruiters and solicitors who recently spoke at the LawCareers.Net Basic Training events. Your training regime starts now. One-two, one-two!
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"We want to show people that we've landed!" So says Kat Gibson, chair of the new Junior Lawyers' Division (JLD), successor to the old Trainee Solicitors Group and Young Solicitors Group. Kat tells us how the JLD came to be, what it’s all about and what it would like to achieve.
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Lawyers and law students alike are increasingly finding their online voices in legal blogs. There's space for everyone to get involved - so it doesn't have to be a blog eat blog world.
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Becoming a lawyer is 99% education and 1% aspiration. Or is it the other way around? As diversity issues continue to impact on firms, more professionals are realising how imperative it is to encourage all young people into the profession. Read on to find out about the campaign.
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Everyone loves a period drama - but not everyone wants to work in one. Determined to dispel the myth that barristers work in Dickensian warrens, prospective pupil Alex Aldridge managed to find some surprisingly innovative chambers. Read on for more.
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Halfway through his reign as president of the Law Society, we talk to Andrew Holroyd OBE about where he's come from, what it's like to be the big cheese, and the issues that he sees as being of importance to the solicitors of the future.
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We all love giveaways. And here at LC.N, we love nothing more than road testing them, so we've decided which law fair freebies were best in 2007. Read on for the results!
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As more and more companies hire their own lawyers, we've lifted the lid on in-house training contracts to help you get your foot in the door.
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That sinking feeling, that fog of hopelessness, that sense of doom - you haven't secured a training contract and you don't know why. Chin up! We take a good hard look at where things can go wrong and offer some solutions on making things right. Let the navel gazing commence!
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For practical, on-the-job advocacy training, the Free Representation Unit (or 'FRU' to its friends) can't be beat. This week's feature investigates what it's all about, from the perspective of current and former volunteers, and the chief executive himself.
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Lawyers are queueing up to tell you about their firms and the work they do. Interested? Go to a firm presentation!
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Partners, recruiters and trainees are coming soon to a city near you in order to seduce you with their bright smiles and flashing pens. But you've still got to play your part if you fancy a job with them. Read on for some sage advice!
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