It's Neurodiversity Celebration Week! A week that “challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences”, according to the Law Society.

Who owns art – is it artists? Galleries? Governments? What happens when art is sold? What do governments do when an important piece of national heritage is ruined?

This July, I was fortunate enough to partake in Local Lawyers in Government (LLG)'s work experience week. I was assigned to a local authority and spent my mornings shadowing different legal departments, and attending informative workshops organised by LLG in the afternoon. In this article, I'll take you through how I spent my week – and the many things I learned.

The annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards seek to celebrate the hard work of student law societies at universities all over the UK. King’s College London Law Society explain how they won 'Best society for non-law students', sponsored by BARBRI, at the 2025 Student Law Society Awards.

After listening to a few podcasts, I've developed an interest in what I've always thought were called ‘personal legal services' - an umbrella term including family, wills and estates and trusts - and started researching firms that provide these services.

The term 'white-collar crime' was coined less than a century ago to describe a wide variety of non-violent crimes, such as fraud, bribery, corruption and embezzlement. This article will explore this lesser-known arena of criminal law, addressing what white-collar crime lawyers do, who their clients might be and providing an overview of their general day-to-day tasks.

As a child, the first thing you learn about lawyers – if anything – is that they wear a fancy grey wig, bang their gavels way too often and frequently shout "I object!" in a wide, open courtroom. But there’s so much more to the discipline than that. In fact, when you think about how many branches there are in the field of law, it becomes almost overwhelming.

A new conference aimed at anyone hoping to land a training contract with one of the international firms in the City has been announced.

Revision is a personal topic; everyone has different strengths and different ways of revising. Law has such a variety of ways that you can be assessed, so there’s no catch-all way of revising.

‘Commercial awareness’ is a term you’ve probably heard thrown around a lot by law firm recruiters.

Every February since 2005, LGBTQ+ History Month has been celebrated across the UK to recognise and commemorate the LGBTQ+ community. Let’s look at the laws that have landed us where we are today.

The reasons that firms decide to merge are as varied as the firms themselves, but there are usually some key drivers – namely, the desire to expand, geographically or in terms of expertise, or to stay afloat. For the lawyers who find that the firm they joined is no longer the firm at which they work, there are normally a raft of opportunities and maybe especially so for trainees.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are becoming an increasingly important topic for businesses of all types, including law firms.

New Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) data has found that 53% of the solicitor’s profession are women and 19% of lawyers are from an ethnic minority background, both small increases on previous years.

Commercial awareness is understanding that being a lawyer involves much more than just knowing the law – you have to know your clients’ businesses and the sectors they operate in to be able to help them achieve their commercial aims.

Lawyer-client matching service Spoke – described as a ‘legal Airbnb’ has become one of the first UK organisations to use the ‘.law’ domain name.

How many lawyers does it take to run an Olympics?

For those who are thinking of applying to first-year schemes or mentoring schemes, you’ll be thinking about which firms you should apply to.