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.

Weightmans and Mace & Jones have announced they are to merge, creating a UK top 50 firm with a combined fee income of £75 million.

Many firms offer to pay their future trainees’ LPC fees if they’ve been recruited while an undergraduate.

The ongoing Legal Education and Training Review, being undertaken by the SRA, the BSB and ILEX, now has its own website.

The apprenticeship drive at Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co continues, with three more apprentices set to join the firm’s real estate team.

The University of Law has launched its newest scholarship, available to one student from a low-income household and known as the Baroness Sayeeda Warsi Set for Success scholarship.

We were given real work in a structured way, with clear expectations and directions to resources. I was taken aback by the level of involvement and commitment of partners in the process, who took hours out of their day to get to know us at social events and training sessions. This reassured us that the business was taking us seriously and our time was being well spent in choosing this vacation scheme.

The booking window for November’s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), SQE1, will close at 5:00pm on Monday 27 September. 

The Law Society has plans to launch a paralegal accreditation scheme, with the aim being to "drive up standards and provide recognition to these employees".

BPP Law School in Leeds has been nominated in two categories in the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards, due to be held on 11 June 2014.

Five refugees are due to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) in September with the support of magic circle firm Linklaters.

Professional support charity LawCare has released its annual statistics from 2015, revealing that it received just over 900 calls to its helpline, made by 496 individuals.

This webinar discusses what it’s really like to be an insurance lawyer. We look at the huge range of work insurance covers, consider the type of clients insurance lawyers work with and lift the lid on how they collaborate. Insurance work offers exciting technical challenges and opportunities to work in contentious, transactional or regulatory environments across a multitude of sectors.

Probably the Inn with the most accessible information, in 2025 the Inner Temple will have more than £2 million available in scholarships, the vast majority of this set aside for those on the Bar course. 

Penningtons Solicitors and Manches LLP have announced their merger, effective as of 14 October 2013.

Eversheds has confirmed its upcoming merger with US firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.

From September 2012, all of Farrer & Co's future trainees will receive their training at Kaplan Law School.

Public law can take many forms, from statutory appeals, inquiries, disciplinary proceedings to public procurement, environmental issues and discrimination law. 

Membership organisation Solicitors for the Elderly has announced plans to rename itself as The Association of Lifetime Lawyers.  

UCAS figures have revealed that as at the end of January, there had been a nearly 9% drop in the number of people applying for a university place.