Law firms, NGOs and academics will be hosting events across the United Kingdom next week to celebrate human rights, as individuals around the world mark Human Rights Day on 10 December 2014.

Plans for a new ‘super exam’ for all qualifying solicitors have been approved by the Legal Services Board, meaning that the Solicitors Qualifying Exam is now certain to go ahead in some form.

A personal injury solicitor has become one of the youngest people in the country to run a major law firm. 

The new chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel, Sarah Chambers, has said that they are ready to tell the government some “uncomfortable truths” about legal aid.

Global law firm Reed Smith has launched a new programme, Wellness Works, to support the wellbeing of its employees. 

The cost of taking the Bar Professional Training Course has been increased by almost every course provider this year.

LawWorks has announced the appointment of its new chief executive, Martin Barnes.

Recently merged Womble Bond Dickinson has taken on five new legal apprentices in its Plymouth office. The apprentices will work in the firm’s corporate and commercial, real estate and dispute resolution teams.

The mandatory appointment of “work allocation officers” at barristers chambers is being considered by the Bar Standards Board as part of its Women at the Bar programme to improve equality in the profession. 

LawCareers.Net has launched its very own YouTube channel, with a view to helping students build up their commercial awareness, sharing top career tips and going behind the scenes with the legal profession's movers and shakers.

UK legal exports increased by nearly 40% between 2021 and 2023, according to research carried out by the Law Society following data published by the Office for National Statistics.

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The 17^th annual Student Volunteering Week is this week (19-25 February). 

A “more prescribed” approach is required to ensure that all newly qualified barristers receive good support and guidance from their assigned ‘qualified person’, research by the Bar Standards Board has concluded.

Top regional firms Coffin Mew and Charles Lucas & Marshall have announced their impending merger. 

Prominent barrister Michael Mansfield QC has argued against imposing a limit on the number of Bar Professional Training Course places.

The best commercial lawyers have their fingers firmly on the pulse of the business world.

The new chairperson of the Bar Council, Maura McGowan QC, has set out her vision for the Bar’s future in her inaugural address.

City firms Allen & Overy, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Herbert Smith have all landed advisory roles on the potential sale of The College of Law - the country’s biggest provider of legal education.

Here is your weekly round-up of big business stories. Keep an eye on these, and others, to hone your commercial skills and make yourself an ever more attractive prospect for recruiters.