The Solicitors Qualifying Exam has been granted final approval by the Legal Services Board, confirming that the new route to qualifying as a solicitor will be introduced in September 2021.

A new study, published by the Department for Education, found that of the occupations most exposed to AI, solicitors ranked 12th on the list when considering exposure to all AI applications and second for exposure to large language modelling.

Staff at the magistrates’ court are set to begin a nine-day strike from the 10th to the 18th of September, adding to existing disruption in the UK’s criminal justice system. 

What’s the biggest red flag for aspiring lawyers? Not reading LawCareers.Net’s weekly commercial news round-ups!

We’ve put everything that we know, and that you need to know, about commercial awareness into our brand new commercial awareness section on LCN. Use it as a starting point to work out what this valuable skill really means and how you can develop it. But before you do that, find out which commercial stories have been shaping the legal world this week.

The Bar Council is this week celebrating a decade of its flagship social mobility initiative, Bar Placement Week, as well as launching a related online campaign, entitled ‘I am the Bar’.

Applications for the CILEX Foundation’s scholarship and bursary programme are due to close on Friday 29 July. 

It’s the new year; new year’s resolutions are being flippantly passed around in quick conversations with colleagues, friends and family alike.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is now accepting applications for two upcoming events that are designed to help students learn more about life as a lawyer in a commercial firm, as well as entries to a competition with Olympics tickets as the prize.

The University of Exeter’s student law society – Bracton Law Society (BLS) – is to be disbanded after an investigation by the university and the students’ guild into the racist WhatsApp messages that were publicly released in March.

Young Citizens, proud supporter of Public Legal Education, announced the launch of the Big Legal Lesson 2022 – a national campaign that includes free classroom resources to help more young people learn about the law. 

Parliament may be prorogued, but the business world keeps turning and this week there are several news stories that aspiring lawyers should be keeping up with. Spending a couple of minutes researching each of these stories will result in a broader knowledge of the industry and should lead to some questions about where the law – and your future employers – might fit in.

The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society is running elections for positions on both the executive committee and the national committee.

The SRA will not act to help LPC students at London Metropolitan University while the institution challenges the potential revocation of its 'highly trusted sponsor' status by the UK Border Agency.

On Saturday 25 March, UK schools went head-to-head in the National Bar Mock Trial Competition Final, which took place at The Royal Courts of Justice. 

A legal apprentice currently training at international firm Kennedys has won the Legal Apprentice of the Year award in her category at the BPP Apprentice of the Year Awards 2017. 

Following the Domestic Abuse Bill’s second reading in the House of Commons last week, the Law Society says the bill must do more to protect victims. It recently passed a significant stage in its path to becoming law and will now be examined by the public bill committee.

BARBRI has announced the innovative funding initiative, BARBRI Bridges, to support and enhance diversity inclusion and wider access to the legal sector.