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.

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.

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.

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.

The Law Society has announced the awards on offer as part of its Diversity Access Scheme, which this year includes two guaranteed training contracts.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, LawCare highlights “the critical role of physical activity in managing our mental health”, particularly in the legal industry, which is known for “its long hours, high stress and sedentary lifestyle”. 

The legal super-regulator is to use its powers to coordinate technological innovation in the sector, it has revealed. 

The SRA has announced an investigation into the role and conduct of solicitors involved in the legal proceedings following the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989, in which 96 football fans were crushed to death.

Universities and law schools must provide more and better information to aspiring lawyers before charging expensive course fees, the Law Society has insisted in response to the findings of the Legal Education and Training Review.

Firms of all sizes, but particularly those in the small to mid-sized range, must adapt to a climate of falling income and profits after the end of a three-year period of growth, according to a new report.