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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.
Norwich-based firm Leathes Prior is planning the first football-related alternative business structure (ABS).
More than three quarters of candidates who took the SQE2 in April passed.
BPP University Law School’s first ever Advocate of the Year contest has been won by a law student from the University of Bristol.
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.
The first legal apprenticeships in Wales have begun through Admiral Law and New Law.
Barbara Mills KC has been elected as vice chair of the Bar Council 2024.
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.
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.
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.
London law firm Mishcon de Reya has launched a programme to offer free legal advice and mentoring to early-stage tech businesses.
Trainee and newly qualified solicitors think that firms should do more to provide training and support on stress at work, a survey by the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) has revealed.
Global law firms Ropes & Gray and Sidley Austin have retained 100% of their trainees.
Several firms have revealed how many of their Spring 2014 qualifiers will be staying on as newly qualified solicitors.
Law firms across the country have released their trainee retention figures for September 2012.
Law firms and their staff have been putting in extraordinary efforts to support their local communities during the coronavirus pandemic, according to reports.
Baker McKenzie has become the latest firm to reinstate newly qualified (NQ) lawyers’ salaries to pre-pandemic levels, after a reduction of 3% last June. Meanwhile, Irwin Mitchell is expecting to open its 15 offices at 50% capacity from 21 June.
While a number of big firms have begun to recall furloughed staff as coronavirus lockdown measures begin to ease, the year ahead remains uncertain for hundreds of solicitors.
Nabarro LLP, Simmons & Simmons and Slater & Gordon have been singled out for praise at the National Council for Work Experience Awards 2013, marking them out as some of the UK's best internship providers.
A number of firms' work placement schemes have been shortlisted for the annual National Council for Work Experience Awards.
