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. 

Changes introduced by the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) mean that aspiring social welfare lawyers will not receive the right training, practitioners claim.

Manchester Law School, part of Manchester Metropolitan University, has accepted the first students onto its alternative training route.

The University of Law has launched its student mentoring scheme for 2013, with over 200 legal professionals committing to the scheme in London, amidst a group of over 600 nationwide, across ULaw's eight UK centres.

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

In more National Apprenticeship Week news, CILEx Law School has been retained to provide training to all of Irwin Mitchell’s new legal apprentices, due to start in September 2016.

In this guide we outline some of the key issues facing the UK legal profession, as well as headline-grabbing cases and mergers – are you in the know?

Find out what law schools have been getting up to lately with some digestible chunks of info, ready for devouring.

“You don’t look like a solicitor, you’ll never make it.” This is what former President of the Law Society I. Stephanie Boyce was told throughout her journey to becoming a solicitor. Boyce’s story encapsulates the outdated homogeneity concerning what a typical solicitor should ‘look and sound like’.

Ten new students have been welcomed onto the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme which supports aspiring lawyers facing social, educational, financial or personal obstacles to qualifying as a solicitor.

Applications have opened for the Law Society's Diversity Access Scheme, which helps exceptional students with their LPC fees.

As you start the third year of your university degree (law or non-law), you are one step closer to reaching your legal career aspirations. There are lots of things to be doing at this crucial time. Here is a checklist to help you stay organised in your final year.

BPP Law School in Leeds recently hosted a launch event for the city’s new legal apprenticeship scheme.

In moves to offer greater flexibility to students, The University of Law will launch a four-year, part-time law degree from September, while The City law School has unveiled an online LLM In International Business Law for distance learners.

Metro Bank is offering a professional studies loan for legal studies exclusively to students at the University of Law, which is now open for applications.

Steve Lewis, an undergraduate law student at Birkbeck University, has won the inaugural Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship, which aims to address the under-representation of black men from low-income households in large commercial law firms.

“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.

Meet apprentices at Mayer Brown and RPC!

Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption has claimed that the profession's best lawyers did not study law at university.