The College of Legal Practice has announced an “innovative” conversion course – a Graduate Foundation in Law programme – designed for non-law graduates who are taking the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) route to qualification. 

Tax barristers litigate and advise in a wide variety of matters and disputes in which tax issues arise.

Applications are now open for LawCareersNetLIVE Virtual, which will take place on 1 and 2 December 2020.

Pro bono charity LawWorks named the winners of its annual awards at a dinner on 23 June at the Law Society.

Attending a law firm’s open day, insight scheme or presentation is a great way to meet lawyers and recruiters, and gain valuable insights that’ll improve your applications. Read our five tips to help you prepare and make a good impression on the day.

Attending a law firm’s open day, insight scheme or presentation is a great way to meet lawyers and recruiters, and gain valuable insights that’ll improve your applications. Read our five tips to help you prepare and make a good impression on the day.

For this blog post, I thought I would look at some of my role models in the industry right now.

What do the imminent reforms to public procurement law mean for UK businesses and public bodies?

Is too much hype a challenge facing legal technology?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an often-referred to, often-quoted, but often-misunderstood topic that without a doubt has the potential to change every aspect of our lives. As I guarantee all of you reading will have heard about the basics of AI, I won’t go into detail explaining what exactly it is and is not; however, I will say that AI is an incredibly broad and multifarious concept, which takes many different forms. This blog will focus on the impact that AI will have specifically on law firms, both positive and negative, and which aspects of AI law firms are most interested in.

Looking for an ‘in’? Open days and insight schemes are invaluable opportunities to meet the people that work for the law firms you’re interested in. You’ll learn about life in the organisation, its culture, the work on offer and much more. Plus, if prepped well, it’s your chance to ace that initial interaction to set yourself up nicely for future encounters that could eventually lead to a training contract.

How has the DMCC Act changed the digital market?

City law firm Macfarlanes was the first non-magic circle firm to increase its newly qualified (NQ) lawyer salary in line with the ongoing NQ pay war. 

The delegate fees from this year’s LawCareersNetLIVE conferences will be donated to two legal charities.

In this brand-new LCN podcast episode, LawCareers.Net’s Niamh Gray (they/them) teams up with leading lawyers Danni Davies (Latham & Watkins) and Michael Tushingham (Gowling WLG (UK) LLP) to discuss what it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in the legal industry. 

Giant textbooks are an inevitable aspect of any law student’s life – because it’s required to build our understanding of complex rules and exceptions on a legal topic.

The annual Law Society Excellence Awards saw a record attendance of over 1,000 guests as they celebrated key lawyers within the profession in London on Thursday night.

In the 30th episode of The LawCareers.Net Podcast, LCN’s host Bethany Wren talks to Emma Dennis, diversity and inclusion manager at international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, about diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the legal profession.