Exclusively UK-based firms typically offer a broad commercial training, emphasising one or two specialist areas; some will also have a private client practice, reflecting longstanding relationships with wealthy individuals and trusts. 

The Law Society has warned that various proposals under consideration by the SRA that would change the way in which solicitors qualify could serve to damage the perception of the United Kingdom as a “global centre of legal excellence”.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services are urging the government to rethink its plans to digitalise the courts through the launch of its Common Platform. 

Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance has introduced a "CV blind policy" in the final recruitment stage of its trainee selection process.

Recent research suggests that nearly half of the top 200 UK law firms have won business directly through social media engagement, though fewer than a quarter of these have so far integrated social media into their marketing strategies.

Commercial firm Gordon Dadds has acquired fellow City practice Ince & Co in a deal worth £27 million, although the final agreement will see Ince’s affiliated overseas offices continue to operate under the Ince & Co brand.

Steve Lewis, an undergraduate law student at Birkbeck University, has won the inaugural Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship, which aims to address the under-representation of black men from low-income households in large commercial law firms.

A team of first-year undergraduates from the University of Manchester have won Norton Rose Fulbright and McLaren Mercedes’ ‘great partnership challenge’, which gives contestants a chance to win a week’s work experience at Norton Rose Fulbright and a trip to the McLaren Technology Centre.

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has opened the final stage of the CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) to allow Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Bar course graduates to qualify as CILEX lawyers. 

Last year marked a record year for law firm partner moves, with 510 commercial law partners moving between firms – a 6% rise on 2022’s figure. 

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The Bar Council has this week hosted the second Bar Placement Week in Leeds and Manchester, following the scheme’s success in 2014.

Organised around the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015, a new scheme has been launched by Lord Dyson to send young solicitors and barristers into schools and encourage students to pursue a career in law.

Pass rates for the Legal Practice Course vary from 100% at two universities to just 37% at the lowest performing provider, according to the latest statistics gathered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.