With so much happening in Birmingham over the next few years, it’s an exciting time to be working and training in the second city.

The backlog of Crown court cases – which increased by nearly 50% during the pandemic – has now started to fall.

Kaplan Law School and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined together to launch a scheme that will help students from under-represented backgrounds get ahead.

Some 70% of first-six pupil barristers in 2011-12 enrolled on the BPTC without having secured pupillage, according to the joint annual report made by the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board earlier this month.

How will the recent amendments to the upcoming Employment Rights Bill help to better protect employees?

National law firm DWF has adopted video interviewing as a way to expand the number of applications that it considers.

How are the positions of construction industry clients, contractors and subcontractors secured?

What does the Building Safety Act mean for the construction sector?

The majority of courses are delivered in two stages. 

The Law Society of England and Wales updated its official guidance on diversity and inclusion language, encouraging the use of alternatives to ‘Dear Sirs’ at the start of legal correspondence – a greeting often used when a recipient’s name is unknown. This use is widely regarded as antiquated, originating from a time when the profession was predominantly male. The Law Society stated: “This gendered greeting perpetuates the assumption that the recipients of correspondence are by default men”.