Solicitors in England and Wales celebrate Ramadan, wishing Muslim employees well as they balance fasting with working.

“Can I still qualify as a solicitor via the Legal Practice Course (LPC) even though the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) is now the new pathway into the profession?” This is a question that is becoming increasingly more familiar as many aspiring lawyers consider their next step towards qualification.

Elizabeth Rimmer, chief executive of charity LawCare, has called for law firm partners and other senior figures to “take responsibility for protecting mental health at work”, following growing concerns about lawyers’ wellbeing.

Students revising for exams in criminal law have a new tool to aid their studies: a YouTube series recreating some of the main cases and topics with Lego characters.

Applications are now open for LawCareers.Net’s legal careers conferences, LawCareersNetLIVE sponsored by The University of Law, taking place in November and December later this year.

First-year students are increasingly being targeted by top 20 law firms eager to reach the best candidates before their rivals.

Kaplan Law School has announced that it will be launching an LLM LPC, allowing its 2014-15 LPC students to add the master’s on for no extra charge.

A team of students from City Law School has won the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition.

LLM students at Queen Mary University of London are to take a course in e-disclosure, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom.

Nearly 800 people, as of 6 August, have signed a petition calling for reforms to the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), highlighting mental health concerns and requesting a more transparent process. In response, a Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) spokesperson acknowledged that the SQE is a “demanding, high stakes assessment that gives successful candidates access to a licence to practise” but stated that an “independent reviewer has confirmed it’s a robust and fair” one.  

Find out about White & Case’s vacation scheme, assessment centres and the training contract application process in this Meet the Recruiter profile with Molly Hill. Plus, Molly outlines what White & Case’s solicitor apprenticeship programme involves!

Find out how you can ace your Akin vacation scheme application with advice from the firm’s graduate recruitment manager Amy McCarthy.

You don’t need a law degree to become a lawyer – in fact, the modern legal profession is full of non-law graduates, and the skills and experiences gained studying and working in other fields are assets that make you a stronger candidate.

BPP University Law School has partnered with the O Shaped Lawyer to introduce O-shaped attributes into the education provider’s Solicitors Qualifying Exam preparation courses. 

The cost of taking the Bar Professional Training Course has been increased by almost every course provider this year.