Jonathan Smithers, president of the Law Society, said: “Law can be a demanding career. Many of us are drawn to the intellectual challenge and thrive on the high pressure our work entails, but with this high pressure can come stress.”

This year’s Future Legal Mind competition has been won by Amy Loughrey, an undergraduate student at the University of York, and Lukas Hamilton Eddy, a postgraduate student at City University, London.

Legal apprenticeship specialist Damar Training and legal education provider BARBRI have announced a new technology partnership that embeds BARBRI’s learning technology into Damar’s solicitor apprenticeship programmes.  

International firm Clifford Chance has announced the winners of its third annual 'intelligent aid' competition, prizes for which crucially include vac scheme places with the firm.

A major 16-month judicial review of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut £321 million from NHS’s community pharmacy budget has ended with a High Court judgment in favour of the government. 

Outstanding contributions to pro bono work by firms and individuals across the legal profession were celebrated at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards 2017 earlier in December. 

Four commercial firms in Bristol have teamed up with the Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) to fund a legal aid training contract.

The National Paralegal Awards, hosted by the Professional Paralegal Register, is taking place on Thursday 22 September at the Iconic Grand Hotel in Birmingham. This is the fourth year the awards has run.

Everyone knows that aspiring lawyers are not expected to be ready-made economists, but they should have a solid understanding of how the business world is moving and which stories are impacting the world more broadly.

Now that I’m a week into being a graduate (I know, I can’t believe it either!), I feel that I've got a few bits of advice which fellow students could benefit from – from the art of picking a comfortable outfit, to the organisation skills required to get a robe.

LawCareers.Net and Aspiring Solicitors have announced a new partnership designed to ensure that the most talented candidates with the greatest potential as lawyers maximise their chances of success.

Solicitors in magistrates' courts and police stations across the country began refusing new legal aid cases yesterday, in protest at the government’s latest 8.75% cuts to legal aid fees.

The SRA began accepting applications from organisations seeking to become alternative business structures yesterday.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced the details of its 2013 diversity survey.

International firm Norton Rose Fulbright is set to significantly expand its Newcastle legal support hub. 

In a much-anticipated move, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued licences to the first three alternative business structures.

Dame Ingrid Simler has become a justice of the UK Supreme Court, following Lord Kitchin’s retirement. Simler is the fifth woman to hold this role since 2009, when the court was set up in its current format, and was sworn in as a new justice of the UK Supreme Court last week. 

The apprenticeship route into law continues to gather pace, as international firms Gowling WLG and Hill Dickinson become the latest to announce new intakes of apprentices for September 2017.

Associates are considering leaving their firm due to feeling “underappreciated”, a new survey by Thomson Reuters has found.