The Solicitors’ Charity, an organisation that supports the wellbeing of solicitors and their dependents, won Charity Collaboration of the Year at the Association of Charitable Organisations (ACO) Annual Awards 2025 for its long-running partnership with mental health charity LawCare.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been urged to revaluate its conclusions of a review it made of the in-house sector, with the regulator being criticised for “understating” the severity and risks faced by general counsel.  

Applications are now open for places on the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme, which provides financial support for the Legal Practice Course (LPC), as well as access to work experience opportunities and mentoring.

Both undergraduate and postgraduate students considering a career at the Bar are now able to get involved with the Bar Council, benefitting from a number of its services and helping to support its work on access to justice.

LPC and BPTC students keen to boost their CVs might be interested in a new competition being run by the Sentencing Council, the first prize of which is a law firm work placement or mini-pupillage.

The King’s Counsel Appointments (KCA) have announced the names of 96 new silks – King’s Counsel (KCs). Despite the nine solicitors who applied this year, all successful applicants were barristers, reflecting the long-standing pattern that the KC cohort is overwhelmingly drawn from the Bar. Since solicitors first became eligible for KC status in 1995, only 66 have been appointed out of 231 applicants.

An innovative online barristers’ business offering a “reimagined” Bar without physical chambers has received £10 million in private equity investment.

The nominees for the 11th annual Student Law Society (SLS) Awards, sponsored by BARBRI, have been revealed after LawCareers.Net received 39 submissions from presidents and committees and more than 2,100 submissions from society members.

Law societies, law firm representatives and the LawCareers.Net team gathered last night on Thursday 14 March 2024 to celebrate the tenth annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards.

Starting a training contract is about having an open mind. The reason behind completing four to six different seats is to gain exposure to each of the different departments.

As the Institute of Legal Executives and Manchester Metropolitan University partner up to offer a new qualifying LLB in legal practice, find out what other law schools and universities have been getting up to.

Baker & McKenzie and Hogan Lovells are the first two firms to plan to integrate a new contextual recruitment tool in their online application systems, in time for the 2015-16 graduate recruitment season.

The government has given ground to striking barristers with an offer of £15 million to address the crisis in the criminal justice system.

But as an aspiring solicitor, what's caught my eye the most have been the president's recent executive orders against major US law firms – and the way some of them are fighting back. In this article, I'll provide an overview of the situation at hand, alongside an insight into its potential implications both locally and internationally.

A number of City firms weathering the effects of coronavirus are evaluating the need for secretaries and support staff during the pandemic.

Harrow Law Centre, set up in 2010, has taken an unusual step and bid for a criminal legal aid contract and, as such, will now be able to offer greater support to its vulnerable clients.

Chambers have been issued new guidance by the Bar Council in a move to ensure that any sexual harassment complaints are dealt with properly.

Despite the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s withdrawal from the Voluntary Code to Good Practice in the Recruitment of Trainee Solicitors, it has been announced that the code will continue to be upheld by its other signatories.