The Junior Lawyers Division has opened applications for its upcoming annual expedition to Tanzania, run in conjunction with the sustainable development charity Raleigh International.

CILEx Regulation has been granted the right to license new alternative business structures, in a development touted as good news for legal executives, who could benefit from expanded career opportunities.

CMS will be offering 95 training contract places in the coming recruitment year, making it the second-highest training contract provider in the UK.

DWF is to become the first law firm to list on the London Stock Exchange after confirming its plans to float on Thursday.

The recent LawCareers.Net Trainee Survey has revealed that 81% of respondents used either LawCareers.Net or The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook, or both, as part of their hunt for a job.

Universities and law schools are providing similar law degree courses instead of making the most of their freedom to design a range of options for students to choose from, a new report has claimed.

A report by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has argued that the UK legal market should address its over-capacity by cutting 5% of solicitor jobs.

The College of Law's new two-year LLB, which focuses on boosting students' employment prospects and professional skills, will launch this autumn at the CoL's Birmingham, Chester, Guildford and London Bloomsbury centres.

As Black Friday looms (and the proponents of Civilised Saturday attempt to provide an alternative), retailers will be hoping for some big spending, especially in light of news that sales on the UK high street in October were significantly down.

At the recent CILEx awards, honouring excellence in study, practice and practical training, Bond Dickinson won the award for CILEx Employer of the Year Award in relation to its apprenticeship programme.

The London Borough of Hillingdon has appointed four school leavers as legal assistant apprentices in its legal services department.

The legal profession had its biggest turnout yet at the London Legal Walk earlier in May.

The Law Society has voted in favour of putting forward to the Legal Services Board the SRA’s application to become a designated Alternative Business Structures licensing authority.

More than 80% of lawyers consider flexible working to be more important than salaries when job hunting, according to a recent report. 

Nottingham Law School has announced that from October 2012 it will be offering a restructured full-time LLB, which features a "split-year" option in the second year.

Leading legal lender VFS Legal has gone into administration, leaving law firms at a loss for financing.

Changes sweeping the legal profession will mean that a third of the current top 300 UK firms will no longer exist by 2022 unless firms become more competitive and transparent on the price of services, a law firm finance expert has forecasted. 

DWF has been named one of The Times Top 50 Employers For Women for the second consecutive year.

Well, the Panama Papers make for a revealing read - not that you have to actually read all 11 million of them, just digest what the papers are saying about them. For the tax-avoiding rich and powerful, it’s a nail-biting time as the world gets to see exactly how they hide their millions away. Read on for this and other enlightening business news from the past week: