Macfarlanes' graduate recruitment partner John Hornby talks about Bristol Law School’s staff/student cricket match and explains why the firm got involved.

The Law Society has awarded 14 scholarships to aspiring solicitors through its Diversity Access Scheme (DAS), which supports aspiring solicitors who are facing social, educational, financial or personal obstacles to qualifying.

A Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) student at the University of Law has won the prestigious Future Legal Mind essay competition for 2017. 

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).

The University of Law is preparing to open a new centre in Leeds in September 2014, relocating its existing York centre there.

Joel Semakula is a barrister at Landmark Chambers. In this Meet the Lawyer he outlines why he was drawn to the Bar, his work acting for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the diversity initiatives in place at Landmark Chambers.

The University of Law will launch a two-year specialist undergraduate law degree in international legal practice in 2014, the first of this kind of accelerated LLB in the United Kingdom.

We chat to family lawyer Hebe Thorne about coming to law from a non-law background, the sort of work she gets up to at Burges Salmon and the characteristics that make the firm stand out. 

You’re in the first year of your law degree and you want to know what you should be doing.

The University of Law has announced a new and exclusive partnership with specialist professional legal qualifications provider the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

Associate Evan Whyte takes us through his diverse range of work experience and explains why working with children made him a great lawyer. Evan also explains how to choose which firms to apply for, what a typical day for a banking and finance associate involves and why he loves Latham & Watkins.

Details of a new postgraduate law conversion course to replace the GDL when the Solicitors Qualifying Exam comes into effect in 2021 have been released by BPP University Law School.

The SRA will not act to help LPC students at London Metropolitan University while the institution challenges the potential revocation of its 'highly trusted sponsor' status by the UK Border Agency.

The Kent Law Campaign is raising money to help fund a new building for the Kent Law Clinic.

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. 

One striking difference between school/college and higher education is the need to hold yourself accountable. University learning comes with many new challenges, including the fact that you’re held less accountable by your lecturers and you must take that responsibility into your own hands.  

The University of Law has announced the launch of a new Trainee Solicitor Development Programme in partnership with the Bank of England. 

The University of Law has launched a new solicitor apprenticeship programme, designed to strengthen its partnerships with both employers and apprentices. A number of firms have already signed up to the programme, including Gowling WLG, Fieldfisher and Plexus Law.

The Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) was introduced in September 2021. Here is everything we know about the new exams, from the syllabus, to the format of the exams themselves, to the cost for candidates, to what law firms, universities and law schools are doing.