UK holidaymakers are facing steep price hikes for summer getaways, while Royal Mail is cutting Saturday second-class deliveries as part of a major overhaul. Meanwhile, Britain’s pubs are closing at a rate of one per day amid mounting financial pressures and biodiesel distributor Greenergy is shutting down one of Britian’s biggest plants. Read on for the full scoop of this week’s top commercial news stories!

The interview process can vary across law firms, depending on their size, culture or jurisdiction. One thing they all have in common is that they will all ask you specific questions relating to your competency.

As part of a work experience programme I'm participating in, I was requested to attend court to support a litigant in person as their McKenzie friend. This sparked a series of questions that resulted in this article.

As we continue to read about the ongoing rescue efforts in Turkey, we’ve put together a short summary of five commercial news stories that should be on your radar for this week’s round-up.

Coronavirus: What should employers be thinking about when considering home working for their employees? What might covid-19 mean for the future of home working?

Find out which firms offer vacation schemes (also known as work placements) using our Training contract search and keep on top of approaching deadlines on our Vacation scheme deadlines page. Visit our Vacation Scheme Insiders section to get a sense of different firms’ vacation schemes and office cultures.

As concerns over climate change grow and consumers demand environmentally-friendly clothing, even at a higher cost, companies (ranging from fashion retailers to supermarkets and airlines) have adopted campaigns that show the sustainability of their products or practices.

Grant Shapps has been appointed as the new defence secretary following Ben Wallace’s resignation, the date for Donald Trump’s trial has been set and there may still be hope for value retailer Wilko. Plus, what effect have this summer’s sporting protests had long term? All this and more in this week’s commercial news round-up.   

Dear reader, a few LCN blogs later, I have officially completed and received the results for my first exam season for law!

Are you up to date with this week’s commercial news? Major record labels take legal action against AI music, Shein is in the process of listing on the London Stock Exchange, gas and electricity prices are expected to fall this summer and air freight causes surge in greenhouse gas emissions. Read this week’s commercial news round-up to find out more.

Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net-zero pledges, "an act of weakness” or a necessary adjustment to prevent “bankrupting the British people”? You decide. More on this in our first story, plus we’ll be covering the future of Uber, police suspensions, shares in tech giant Toshiba and Katy Perry.  

As Tuesday 5 November marked the 60th quadrennial presidential election in the US, the world awaited the results with bated breath. In this week’s commercial news round-up, we outline the impact of Donald Trump’s re-election on lawyers across the world and take a look at US shares, the dollar and predictions for the UK’s economic growth. Plus, we provide an update on the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates; and the state of house prices in the UK.

The shortlist of nominees for the 2018 LawWorks and Attorney General’s Student Pro Bono Awards has been announced.

Earlier this month I did something for the first time in three and a half years: I took a holiday and didn’t do any work at all! No main work, no side work, no writing, no nothing! Just a few days away, doing the things I wanted to do.

How does litigation work in practice?

In this blog I will look at whether it is possible to litigate social media, with a focus on body image issues.