National law firm Browne Jacobson LLP has welcomed six work experience students who are part of the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme, as part of the firm’s efforts to improve access and diversity within the profession. 

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has been awarded the annual Commendation for Diversity as judged by LawCareers.Net, Aspiring Solicitors and Rare.

The Bar Standards Board has agreed to change parental leave rules to enable all self-employed barristers to take leave, regardless of whether their spouse or partner has also done so.

The Bar Standards Board has published its framework for the development of education and training in response to the Legal Education and Training Review.

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education have revealed the barrister apprenticeship standard, which sets out the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to become a successful practising barrister in England and Wales. 

The new Bar training rules require that those who commenced training for the Bar from 2020 take a Bar Standards Board (BSB) exam in Professional Ethics if, after their vocational training, they then go on to pupillage.  

Cardiff University has become the latest education provider to be authorised by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to deliver the vocational component of Bar training from September 2020.

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published the responses to its consultation on the future training of barristers.

In a bid to improve diversity at the Bar, the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that chambers need to provide anti-racism training and implement “positive action measures”, including targeted adverts to recruit people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

Women and black and ethnic minority (BME) barristers are still badly under-represented in the barristers profession, the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) annual diversity report for 2015 has revealed.

The Bar Standards Board has agreed the ways in which the Inns of Court will continue to perform their role in the training and qualification of barristers in England and Wales. Detailed in a policy statement published on 23 March, the regulator has confirmed that the Inns will continue to play a pivotal role in the process.

The Bar Standards Board has ordered an external review of its professional conduct complaints processes after discovering that black and minority ethnic barristers were overrepresented in the complaints system.

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has launched a three-month public consultation, seeking input on proposed changes to revise the definition of academic legal training. 

A “more prescribed” approach is required to ensure that all newly qualified barristers receive good support and guidance from their assigned ‘qualified person’, research by the Bar Standards Board has concluded.

The Bar Standards Board has announced how it intends to eliminate the discrimination, harassment and unfair treatment experienced by women barristers, just as news has emerged that of the top 100 highest-earning criminal defence barristers, only four are women.

Pilot supervision visits to chambers by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) have brought about real improvements in chambers’ policies, procedures and controls, the regulator has found.