London law firm Mishcon de Reya has launched a programme to offer free legal advice and mentoring to early-stage tech businesses.

Stronger Together is a network designed to “promote racial diversity, inclusion and equality” in Leeds’ professional services sector, while identifying ways to create a more diverse and inclusive sector in the city.

An event aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, with the tag line "Now you're out, let us help you get in", is being held on 4 December 2012.

The outstanding pro bono and volunteering achievements of individual lawyers, law firms, charities and advice clinics were celebrated last week at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards.

Barbara Mills KC has been elected as vice chair of the Bar Council 2024. 

The first legal apprenticeships in Wales have begun through Admiral Law and New Law.

Increasingly, there is a movement among law firms to concentrate on first-year students and provide them with the opportunity to learn more about their organisations.

BPP University Law School’s first ever Advocate of the Year contest has been won by a law student from the University of Bristol. 

More than three quarters of candidates who took the SQE2 in April passed.

Norwich-based firm Leathes Prior is planning the first football-related alternative business structure (ABS).

The first group legal aid trainees to have been sponsored through their training contracts by the Legal Education Foundation’s Justice First Fellowship have qualified as solicitors. 

The alternative 'equivalent means' route to qualifying as a solicitor has been successfully completed for the first time by Robert Houchill, who had been working as a senior paralegal in the immigration team at Bates Wells Braithwaite and is now a solicitor in the same team.

The Law Society of England and Wales has confirmed that a regional solicitor admission ceremony will take place in Leeds on Monday 11 September 2023. 

The booking window for November’s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), SQE1, will close at 5:00pm on Monday 27 September. 

If you’ve decided that a career as a lawyer is for you, there are a few things you should be doing even before you begin university. This video is aimed at school students, sixth formers and those right at the beginning of their legal career journey.

In a much-anticipated move, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued licences to the first three alternative business structures.

The first woman to practise as a barrister will be commemorated with a blue plaque this year. Helena Normanton KC (1882-1957) was the first woman to join an Inn, practice at the Bar, appear in the High Court, appear in the Old Bailey, and was one of the two first women King’s Counsel in England and Wales.

You’re in the first year of your law degree and you want to know what you should be doing.

I first decided I wanted to be a solicitor when I graduated from high school. The intellectual rigour of a law degree, coupled with the high-octane nature of legal work, seemed irresistible.

I discovered that diligently following the course schedule provided by the law faculty was a destructive race to the bottom. Naturally some classes require more allocation of time and effort than others and this will vary with your interests.