Research carried out by First Advantage, a pre-employment screening company, suggests that inaccuracies in legal services job applications are significantly above the regional average.

Top 100 firm DMH Stallard has merged with another regional leader, Rawlison Butler. 

Penningtons Solicitors LLP has scored a spot in the top 25 companies for graduates to work for in a survey run by The Job Crowd.

There's cause to celebrate for the majority of SNR Denton's Spring 2011 qualifying trainees, as the firm reveals that it has positions for 11 out of the 14-strong intake.

The government is considering whether to appeal a High Court judgment that controversial cuts to criminal legal aid are unlawful.

Graduates of Russell Group universities and Oxbridge are overwhelmingly favoured by law firm recruiters, research by Chambers Student has indicated. 

The first top 50 firm to reveal its 2010-11 financial results this year is Holman Fenwick Willan, which has posted revenues of £112.5 million for the financial year ending 31 March - a 12.6% increase on last year's figure of £99.9 million.

The pressures on criminal barristers are forcing many to regularly skip lunch or any other form of break, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association has said.

While the vast majority of firms that run vacation schemes have a 31 January application deadline, many choose to ask for the submission of applications both in advance of, and after, that date.

Shakespeares, the second largest law firm in the Midlands, has continued its support for Leicester Young Professionals following a revamp of the long-established local organisation's structure.

The Bar Standards Board has proposed amendments to widen its powers in 2024.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance is cutting its training contract numbers by 20.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published a report on the possible impact of Brexit on law firms.

Junior lawyers at top paying US law firms in London work on average more than 12 hours a day, according to a recent survey. 

Foot Anstey will launch a new training programme from September 2014, which allows candidates to qualify while working.

Students at the University of Bolton are opening a free legal advice centre to help fill the huge gaps in services left by government cuts to legal aid.

Garden Court Chambers has launched a scholarship to enable refugee students to take the Bar Practice Course (BPC) at  City, University of London Law School.

The Law Society has called on the new Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, to focus on access to justice and undo the years of damage done to the legal aid system under successive governments.

The Bar Council is again running its annual Pupillage Fair in London. The fair is on Saturday 21 October, 10.00am-4.00pm, at The University of Law, Moorgate and is free for students to attend. 

The College of Law has launched two new scholarships aimed at students starting the BPTC in autumn 2012.