Only 20% of barristers nominated for the honorary QC title between 2010 and 2012 were women, with 62 of the 81 people put forward in that time being men.

A Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) survey will be sent to all 10,200 SRA-regulated firms in England and Wales regarding their use of technology and innovation.

With Pupillage Gateway now open for applicants to browse pupillage vacancies, Bar students are busy completing application forms and researching different sets.

Leading civil liberties and legal aid firm Hodge Jones & Allen hosted Year 12 Students for a discussion about careers in the access-to-justice side of the legal profession earlier this month. 

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner has announced 10 trainee vacancies for its March 2013 intake.

Aspiring solicitors can now apply for the 2020 cohort of the Diversity Access Scheme (DAS) which is run by the Law Society and supports people from low socioeconomic and disadvantaged backgrounds on their path to becoming a lawyer.

Year-on-year decreases in funding for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which reviews the cases of people fighting miscarriages of justice, has been criticised following a sharp rise in the number of applications received by the body.

Women lawyers are generally earning more than their male peers at the junior stages of their careers, but face earning less than male lawyers as their careers progress, new research from Eversheds has found.

The University of Law will launch a two-year specialist undergraduate law degree in international legal practice in 2014, the first of this kind of accelerated LLB in the United Kingdom.

LawCareers.Net is delighted to announce that it will be offering a bespoke curated email for aspiring lawyers, in collaboration with Lexology.

As recent changes to the law move to reflect wider society's growing embracement of diversity and LGBT equality, more lawyers are making LGBT rights part of their practices.

The Institute of Paralegals has revealed a new strategy to improve diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and ensure that individuals from all backgrounds are not only recruited into the legal sector, but retained and progressed as well.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden over sexual assault and rape allegations - has applied to turn his name into a trademark in a bid to protect it for use in "public speaking" and "entertainment services".

For the second year running, London Metropolitan University has run a “Get into Law” event, aimed at encouraging students from underrepresented backgrounds into both postgraduate study and the legal profession.

A new two-part Bar course that will replace the BPTC has been given provisional approval.

Oxford Brookes University announced earlier this week that it intends to stop offering the LPC in summer this year.

The latest Association of Graduate Recruiters survey has revealed that the number of applicants going for each training contract vacancy has jumped from 35 to 65.5.

The largest ever study of innovation in the legal sector has revealed that lawyers are becoming more innovative when it comes to organising and managing their businesses.

Aspiring Solicitors, launched in November 2013 by former Norton Rose Fulbright associate, Chris White, has recently gained support from a number of high-profile law firms.