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The new Solicitors Qualifying Examination could mean that prospective solicitors miss out on key aspects of legal work experience, the Junior Lawyers Division has warned.
Plans for a new ‘super exam’ for all qualifying solicitors have been approved by the Legal Services Board, meaning that the Solicitors Qualifying Exam is now certain to go ahead in some form.
The decision on whether or not to approve plans for a new solicitors’ ‘super exam’ has been delayed once again by the Legal Services Board.
The solicitors’ profession is diversifying and increasingly reflects the makeup of the general UK population, data collected by the Law Society shows.
The solicitors’ profession is slowly becoming more diverse, while the number of students starting law degrees continues to rise, according to the Law Society’s latest annual statistics report.
Demand for support among solicitors in England and Wales has tripled since 2023, as practitioners face increasingly complex and overlapping challenges, according to The Solicitors’ Charity’s Big Report 2025/26.
The Solicitors’ Charity has introduced The Legal Pause, a new podcast focused on promoting solicitor wellbeing across England and Wales.
New statistics revealed in The Solicitors’ Charity Big Report highlighted that in 2022 the charity helped 50% more new clients.
Solicitors representing young people in the youth courts are to receive specialist support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to help them meet the needs of their young clients.
Solicitors could face new competence checks as the Legal Services Board published fresh expectations for regulators to ensure lawyers stay up to date on the knowledge, skills and behaviour required to be a solicitor and provide good quality legal services.
The number of solicitors leaving larger law firms to join smaller players has increased in the past three years, according to research by LexisNexis.
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Solicitors in magistrates' courts and police stations across the country began refusing new legal aid cases yesterday, in protest at the government’s latest 8.75% cuts to legal aid fees.
