On Wednesday 5 February, the Law Society launched its Diversity Access Scheme (DAS), which has so far invested £3.5 million into supporting more than 300 aspiring solicitors.

Steve Lewis, an undergraduate law student at Birkbeck University, has won the inaugural Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship, which aims to address the under-representation of black men from low-income households in large commercial law firms.

LLM students at Queen Mary University of London are to take a course in e-disclosure, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom.

Leeds-based firm Walker Morris has announced it will award travel bursaries of £1,000 to three of its future trainees as part of a wider support programme.

A motion has been passed at the Liberal Democrats conference expressing “regret” at the party’s role in making swingeing cuts to the legal aid budget during the 2010-15 coalition government.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden over sexual assault and rape allegations - has applied to turn his name into a trademark in a bid to protect it for use in "public speaking" and "entertainment services".

For the second year running, London Metropolitan University has run a “Get into Law” event, aimed at encouraging students from underrepresented backgrounds into both postgraduate study and the legal profession.

A survey run by the Law Society’s Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) found that nearly 80% of respondents had gained some unpaid legal work experience, but that fewer than half believed that their experiences had benefited their career prospects.

The largest ever study of innovation in the legal sector has revealed that lawyers are becoming more innovative when it comes to organising and managing their businesses.

Aspiring Solicitors, launched in November 2013 by former Norton Rose Fulbright associate, Chris White, has recently gained support from a number of high-profile law firms.

The government's legal aid bill has suffered a third defeat in the House of Lords.

A new two-part Bar course that will replace the BPTC has been given provisional approval.

Friends in Law has awarded special recognition to nine barristers’ chambers for the support they give to both the Bar Pro Bono Unit and Free Representation Unit.

Oxford Brookes University announced earlier this week that it intends to stop offering the LPC in summer this year.

“Clarification is needed now on UK entry clearance for people at risk under the new Taliban rule in Afghanistan,” says the Law Society.

In the first year since its transatlantic merger, A&O Shearman reported global revenues of £2.9 billion and a pre-tax profit of £1.1 million.

The latest Association of Graduate Recruiters survey has revealed that the number of applicants going for each training contract vacancy has jumped from 35 to 65.5.

The role of librarian ranked as the second most common ‘dream job’ among 14,000 people polled by YouGov, to the delight of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.

The Bar Council has launched a new website Become-a-barrister.com which aims to promote social mobility in the profession and dispel the myth that the career is only open to those from privileged backgrounds.