The justice secretary, Liz Truss, has confirmed that it is the government’s intention to go ahead with plans to implement a British Bill or Rights, although no timescale has been revealed.

Pro bono organisation LawWorks has announced that nominations are open for its annual LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards.

Fees for the Bar Professional Training Course have risen again this year amid warnings that millions of pounds are being spent by students who do not go on to secure pupillage.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is set to recruit its first solicitor apprentices in September 2025, joining Linklaters LLP and Allen & Overy LLP as the third magic circle law firm to embrace this alternative route. 

Lightsource Renewable Energy has recently been granted SRA accreditation to take on trainees, joining a small group of companies in the United Kingdom that offer in-house training contracts.

The College of Law (CoL) held an event entitled 'Diversity at the Bar' on Monday 16 April, at which leading barrister and human rights expert Baroness Helena Kennedy QC was the keynote speaker.

Macfarlanes has become the third firm to adopt a "CV-blind" policy to combat unconscious bias and elitism in its recruitment.

The chairman of the Legal Services Board, David Edmonds, has indicated that a single regulator for solicitors and barristers could be created in the not-too-distant future.

A long weekend can mean a short attention span, but stay focused - here is a handful of news stories to get you thinking about the issues that affect commercial entities (and thus clients) every day.

Leicester-based Premier Property Lawyers (PPL) - one of the largest conveyancing firms in the country - has made history by becoming the first to register as an alternative business structure (ABS) after new rules came into force.

The Pegasus Access Scheme, a social mobility initiative for prospective barristers, is now open for applications.

Leicester-based legal advice charity The Community Advice and Law Service has become the first not-for-profit organisation to establish an alternative business structure.

Junior lawyers across the legal profession are to be asked whether they have suffered from work-related mental health issues in the last 12 months, after the same survey last year found that one in four rated their stress levels as ‘severe’. 

A group of six City law firms have partnered with BPP University Law School to develop a new course that will prepare future trainees for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).

Global law firm DWF has launched a work placement scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates pursuing careers in law.

Here we are on another Super Thursday (ie, when several key economic announcements are made on the same day) and everyone is watching the Bank of England nervously to see if it will drop interest rates – the first time since 2009.

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.

Firms have called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make reporting of ethnicity pay gaps mandatory. In a letter to the Telegraph, firms have urged Johnson to make the transition from voluntary to mandatory for organisations with more than 250 employees.