Attending a law firm’s open day, insight scheme or presentation is a great way to meet lawyers and recruiters, and gain valuable insights that’ll improve your applications. Read our five tips to help you prepare and make a good impression on the day.

Attending a law firm’s open day, insight scheme or presentation is a great way to meet lawyers and recruiters, and gain valuable insights that’ll improve your applications. Read our five tips to help you prepare and make a good impression on the day.

If the banks won't lend, who will?

How do international banks and English lawyers help in the movement of global trade?

What is the GAAR and how will it affect what private client lawyers do in practice?

Economists’ ideal market – known as ‘perfect competition’ – would operate something like a large town square full of fruit and vegetable stalls. Prices would be clearly visible to consumers and one stall’s products would be very similar to the next, making it unlikely that one seller would set a higher price than their neighbour.

As the UK continues to reopen society – albeit with a lot more hand sanitising stations, face coverings and distance markers – law firms are following suit. But unlike the virtually overnight move to working from home, the move back to working in the office will be slow, and perhaps may not ever happen for some.

Jessikah Inaba, aged 23, made history last week, qualifying as Britain’s first Black, blind barrister.

Commonhold ‘reformation’ – is this a holistic fix for a broken and outdated leasehold system, as formulated by the government in its recent Commonhold White Paper?

This summer I applied to 30 law firms for training contracts and had two interviews, but wasn’t offered a training contract – what do I do now?

The transition from sixth form to university, especially at the height of the pandemic, was quite challenging (for context, I attended an international school outside the UK).

Prior to the introduction of the mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) regime for nationally significant infrastructure projects in November 2025, does a developer need to be considering BNG in relation to an application for a Development Consent Order made in the next 12 months?

In July 2017 the CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that LIBOR would be phased out by 2021. How will this impact on lending arrangements going forward?

Shadowing a judge, often referred to as judge marshalling, is a beneficial form of work experience for both aspiring solicitors and barristers. While both groups can benefit, it’s aspiring barristers who usually endeavour to secure the scheme, as it gives a huge insight into their future career (ie attending court, practising advocacy). As part of the experience, some students even get the chance to sit on the judge’s bench.

As Boris Johnson enters Downing Street, The Law Society has called on him to prioritise fixing our justice system and ensure that the legal services sector remains diverse and globally competitive. In this blog, I have fleshed out five things that the legal sector expects from the new Tory prime minister.

Could complying with US border staff requests for access to social media accounts breach UK data protection regulations and client confidentiality obligations? 

US trade sanctions: should non-US reinsurers be running scared?

For those who are thinking of applying to first-year schemes or mentoring schemes, you’ll be thinking about which firms you should apply to.

Should more be done to regulate buy now, pay later services?

How will the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 reshape subscription contracts?