BPP has announced it will roll out its two-year degree programmes across all six of its UK centres after an increase in interest from students.

Browne Jacobson has further expanded its apprentice scheme to take on four new recruits, who join the six September 2012 apprentices.

Leading diversity and inclusion organisation Aspiring Solicitors has launched a charity to provide financial relief to aspiring lawyers in England and Wales.

In a high-profile utilisation of new alternative business structure regulations, the investment firm Duke Street has provisionally acquired a significant stake in the Parabis Group, a leading legal services provider for travel, insurance and personal injury claims.

BT has declared an intention to enter the legal market, via its subsidiary BT Claims, which has applied to the SRA for an alternative business structure licence.

Statistics in a recently published annual report show that The College of Law’s Pathways to Law scheme has actively helped young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain places at leading universities.

The College of Law, in collaboration with the City Solicitors’ Educational Trust, hosted a forum to investigate the best ways of promoting social mobility in the legal sector on 28 September.

Leading law firm Paul Hastings LLP has partnered with diversity platform Aspiring Solicitors to host its first London office mentoring scheme for university students from diverse backgrounds, following conversations about racial inequality in the legal profession.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally by introducing fees of up to £1,200 for those bringing claims to an employment tribunal. 

Almost constant disagreements between the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society may mean there is a need for a change in the rules governing the two regulators’ relationship, the Legal Services Board has said in its latest consultation. 

The public now have the chance to choose their favourite ideas from the British Library’s Magna Carta: My Digital Rights project, which marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the 25th anniversary of the web by asking young people to think about how the issues of freedom and control associated with Magna Carta apply to the digital age.

New measures to improve the quality of advocacy in youth courts have been announced by the Bar Standards Board.

Junior barristers are losing out on work thanks to the increasingly widespread tendency among solicitors to pay referral fees to each other and growing number of solicitor advocates, the Bar Council has said.

Global law firm Clyde & Co is introducing a six-month trainee seat in its in-house data lab from March 2020.

The unthinkable happened this week; KFC ran out of chicken! With the doors of most of its branches firmly shut, thousands of disgruntled consumers had to take their fried poultry habits elsewhere. 

Our busy family department is now looking to recruit for the next generation of lawyers committed to a career in family law. We have two vacancies for family law caseworkers.

According to an article in Legal Week, the author of the 2010 report on civil costs reform Lord Justice Jackson has spoken out against the government cuts to legal aid.

The high-level chit-chat taking place between politicians and business leaders in Davos this week at the annual World Economic Forum is expected to cover eight key themes, with delegates looking at robots, gender equality and terrorism.

Switalskis Solicitors has acquired Atherton Godfrey LLP, a law firm based in Doncaster, creating a business with a turnover of £20 million.