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The University of Law in York has announced that it is inviting applications from law students for the annual Tracy Kaye/Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP Memorial Bursary, which helps towards LPC tuition fees.
BPP University Law School has revealed details of its new Bar course, which will replace the BPTC following changes to barrister training implemented by the Bar Standards Board.
You don’t need a law degree to become a lawyer – in fact, the modern legal profession is full of non-law graduates. The skills and experiences you gain from studying and working in other fields are assets that can make you a stronger candidate.
Naomi Winston outlines how she discovered a career at the Bar would suit her, the benefits of Ten Old Square’s open-door policy and how she’s managing work/life balance with long covid.
Hello! I’m Meenakshi Sundaram Sakthikumar, president of the Mooting Society and a final-year law student at the University of Nottingham. I’m delighted to have won the ‘Best law society president’ at the LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards.
Following a successful launch in 2016, the mentoring scheme run jointly by Browne Jacobson and the law school at Manchester Metropolitan University has been expanded in 2017 to take on a total of 17 undergrad law students.
Oxford Brookes University has joined forces with corporate technology-focused law firm Moorcrofts to create an app that can read contracts to identify the sections that require human attention.
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The first ever UK Commercial Awareness Competition has been won by a team of students from Queen Mary University of London.
Graduate resourcing advisor Molly Hill offers a detailed and practical insight into the application process at leading City law firm White & Case.
The Social Mobility Foundation has opened applications for its 2014 programmes, including law, which provide young people from less privileged backgrounds with free mentoring, skills development, internships and support with university applications.
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The Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) will have a negative impact on students and academics, and represents a “step backwards” for diversity and equal access to careers in the legal profession, according to law lecturers.
Introducing a standardised professional exam for all qualifying solicitors could have a negative impact on diversity in a profession that is already disproportionately white, male and middle class in its senior echelons, the Law Society has warned.
A team from the University of Law's Manchester centre has won the fourth annual DAC Beachcroft Mooting Shield.
On 3 November The University of Law revealed its new articled apprenticeship scheme, which will allow school leavers to become fully qualified solicitors after six years of on-the-job training.
The Law Society of England and Wales’ has awarded 15 tenacious aspiring solicitors each a Diversity Access Scheme to help them qualify as a solicitor.
If you decide that a career as a lawyer is for you, there are a few things you should be doing even before you start university.