Sponsored by
Interested in a future career as a lawyer? Use The Beginner’s Guide to a Career in Law to get started
Find out about the various legal apprenticeships on offer and browse vacancies with The Law Apprenticeships Guide
Information on qualifying through the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, including preparation courses, study resources, QWE and more
Discover everything you need to know about developing your knowledge of the business world and its impact on the law
The latest news and updates on the actions being taken to improve diversity and inclusion in the legal profession
Discover advice to help you prepare for and ace your vacation scheme, training contract and pupillage applications
Your first-year guide to a career in law – find out how to kickstart your legal career at this early stage
Your non-law guide to a career in law – everything you need to know about converting to law
Qualifying work experience (QWE) is one of the four requirements needed to qualify as a solicitor via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).
What’s qualified privilege in defamation law?
The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) has been replaced by the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). Only lawyers who’ve already started qualifying via the QLTS can continue to qualify this way.
Maya Chilaeva talks about the work she was involved with during pupillage, the importance of mini-pupillages and outlines her role on some significant cases.
Global legal training provider QLTS School revealed its Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) preparation courses earlier in the week. The SQE is the new centralised assessments, which will be introduced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in September 2021.
courses: Bar Course, Law Conversion, Law degree, LPC, SQE, Postgraduate law courses
More than 100 QCs have signed a petition requesting that the Garrick Club’s members, including a number of senior lawyers, vote for women to be admitted at its next general meeting on 7 December. The club is one of London’s last remaining gentleman’s clubs and has had a long association with the legal profession.
Following publication of the 2017 Judicial Diversity Statistics, the Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee, Robin Allen QC, has demanded there be greater action on judicial diversity.
Queen’s Counsel Appointments has donated £200,000 to hardship funds to support struggling barristers and solicitors as the coronavirus crisis continues.
The Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates is unlawful and intended to undermine the fundamental principles of barristers' independence, the High Court has heard as the judicial review of QASA gets underway.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been granted an ABS licence by the SRA, the first of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms to receive one.
