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

Magic circle firm Linklaters has launched a new innovation podcast series, Linkubator, aimed at students who want to develop their understanding of how the legal sector is being transformed by innovation and emerging technologies.

What are the practicalities of declaring final dividends in light of covid-19 and what can companies do if they no longer consider that the payment of a dividend is appropriate?

Should I use my Gmail or an academic email address when giving contact details? How strictly are deadlines enforced? Are there any ways of saving myself some time? The team at AllHires has the answers.

Defamation, libel and slander claims can severely impact the reputation of people, publications and businesses.

Three firms have announced that they are retaining 100% of their September 2012 qualifiers.

Following discussions between CILEx and the Ministry of Justice, it has been announced that chartered legal executives can now become coroners.

BPP law School has joined forces with specialist bank, Investec, to offer loans to its postgraduate law students.

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has begun offering training contracts as early as to students who are still 18 years old. 

Weightmans and Mace & Jones have announced they are to merge, creating a UK top 50 firm with a combined fee income of £75 million.

If the banks won't lend, who will?

Chris Eaton completed The University of Law’s LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) ahead of sitting the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) and securing a training contract. We spoke to Chris about the prep course, taking the assessments themselves and Chris' advice for future SQE candidates.

This blog will give a brief summary of how poverty is a major issue in relation to capital punishment in the US. 

The thought of returning to education five years ago was off the table, I was terrified of being considered a mature student at the age of 22.

International law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP has set new diversity targets as part of its Inclusion for All (IFA) strategy, including reaching 18% ethnic minority partners and 40% female partners by 2030. 

The JLD is running a free one-day event for LPC students, designed to help them in their search for a training contract and to gain awareness of the issues they may face along the way.

Nabarro has released its spring retention results and announced that all eight trainees will continue at the firm as newly-qualified solicitors.

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?