Oxford Brookes University announced earlier this week that it intends to stop offering the LPC in summer this year.

New trainees at DLA Piper are being offered £10,000 to delay starting work until August 2021. Staggered start dates have been implemented at the international firm, which recruits around 70 graduates each year – one of the City’s biggest intakes, according to the Law Gazette.

Applications are now open for the LawCareersNetLIVE careers conferences taking place in November and December later this year.

One year after launching its Wellbeing at the Bar online resource, the Bar Council is introducing a certification system for chambers, inns of court and other organisations which adopt mental health and wellbeing policies. 

Ropes & Gray has launched a new social mobility scholarship programme designed for first-year university students from diverse and underserved low socioeconomic backgrounds in the UK. 

Applications are now open for the LawCareersNetLIVE careers conferences taking place in November and December later this year.

LawCareers.Net recently conducted its annual survey of users, attempting to find out how our many thousands of readers use the information that is available to them.

The new edition of The LawCareers.Net Handbook: The Training Contract & Pupillage Guide (formerly known as The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook) is now available to readers.

Founded by Dr Ann Limb in 1998, the organisation was set up following Baroness Kennedy KC’s Learning Works report, which identified a significant number of adults who lacked formal qualifications.

In 2024, Middle Temple awarded scholarships worth around £1.4 million, with more than £1.2 million of that going to Bar course students and £211,750 to GDL students. 

Opportunities for legal apprentices are on offer at Essex Council, following the local authority’s announcement of its new recruitment campaign.