The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced that it will trial running the first part of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) – SQE1 – in Welsh.  

It’s been a busy start to 2023 for me, which is why I’ve been very quiet over on my socials… I’m thrilled to announce that earlier in January, I moved from Freeths LLP’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) team onto its legal assistant programme.

Who’s missed our virtual Bootcamp events with The University of Law? Well, they’re back!

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has introduced a new mental health and wellbeing initiative award category into this year’s CILEx National Awards, in partnership with legal sector mental health charity LawCare.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed that it plans to push for deregulation of training for solicitors, despite concerns raised by the Law Society.

The College of Law and the International Bar Association have teamed up to offer four £2,500 scholarships to students on the CoL's LLM in international legal practice, which runs from September 2012.

The student-run pro bono clinic at Northumbria University, Student Law Office, has secured more than £130,000 in compensation for its clients in 2013/14.

Shoosmiths’ summer vacation scheme, which was due to take place in June, has been cancelled in light of recent government advice. 

BPP University has been named Education Investor Higher/Professional Education Provider of the year 2013 by a panel that included the Department of Education, Universities UK and the Confederation of British Industry.

A legal offshoot has been launched by trade union United Voices of the World (UVW) in order to represent all workers in the legal sector. Legal Sectors Workers United (LSWU) claims to “organise workers in the legal sector, for the benefit and protection of the less privileged”.

The SRA will not act to help LPC students at London Metropolitan University while the institution challenges the potential revocation of its 'highly trusted sponsor' status by the UK Border Agency.

Slaughter and May's latest pay review has cut the firm's trainee bonuses and frozen its associate salaries, while bonuses for support staff will remain the same as last year.

The country's law firms are beginning to show signs of growth after fee incomes dropped by 6.5% in 2009, according to research from the Law Society's Management Section.

City firms are saving money on office costs by moving large numbers of staff to regional offices, a report by the legal consultancy Jomati has revealed.

Magic circle law firm Clifford Chance has announced plans to monitor employee office attendance.

Suffolk Law Centre, launched last year to fill the gap of legal advice services in the county, has helped 2,300 people in its first year.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has called for itself to be made fully independent from the Law Society as part of the governance review being carried out by the legal profession’s super-regulator, the Legal Services Board.  

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“Clarification is needed now on UK entry clearance for people at risk under the new Taliban rule in Afghanistan,” says the Law Society.