As reported in Legal Week, it has come to light that Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Graham Shear has launched a breach of privacy claim against the News of the World for phone hacking.

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Students at the University of Bolton are opening a free legal advice centre to help fill the huge gaps in services left by government cuts to legal aid.

At the recent CILEx awards, honouring excellence in study, practice and practical training, Bond Dickinson won the award for CILEx Employer of the Year Award in relation to its apprenticeship programme.

Top UK firm Bond Dickinson is set to merge with Washington DC-based Womble Carlyle. 

National firm Bond Dickinson has announced that it is hiring a fourth intake of legal apprentices.

Announced to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, Bond Dickinson is recruiting a new group of apprentices to its Plymouth office.

Bond Dickinson LLP has won the ‘Newcomer Large Employer of the Year’ award at the National Apprenticeship Awards for its ground-breaking efforts in the legal apprenticeship space.

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Private wealth and real estate firm Boodle Hatfield LLP has reported a fee income of £32.5 million for the 2022/23 financial year, rising from £30.7 million the previous year.  

Commercial firm Boodle Hatfield LLP was credited as the country's best law firm for women at the second annual Women in Business Law Awards on 20 June 2012; an event run by the Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe.

A barrister has called for the Inns of Court to do more to promote social mobility after Lincoln’s Inn quoted £3,000 for hosting an event about diversity in the legal profession.

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The first part of the new Solicitors Qualifying Exam – a series of online multiple-choice exams testing legal knowledge – is likely to be too difficult with fail rates higher than the current LPC system, says Patrick McCann, global head of learning at Linklaters LLP.

Vocational education provider BPP has been acquired by TDR Capital in a move the educator called a “strong vote of confidence” in the brand.

From September 2016 BPP University Law School is offering two new legal apprenticeships, in partnership with some of the United Kingdom’s leading law firms.