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Both The College of Law and Kaplan Law School have published figures on how many of their 2010 LPC graduates had secured employment in the legal profession.
LawWorks has announced the appointment of its new chief executive, Martin Barnes.
Fee income among law firms has undergone steady growth despite the austere economic climate, according to research by the Law Society's Law Management Section.
The government is considering whether to appeal a High Court judgment that controversial cuts to criminal legal aid are unlawful.
Junior lawyers, with support from the Law Society, have announced that they will focus once again on the campaign for a minimum trainee salary.
ChatGPT makes use of GPT-3 meaning Generative Pre-trained Transformer, version 3), a machine-learning language model that’s consumed enough text to be able to interpret and output text in a way that appears human-like. It isn’t necessarily ‘intelligence’; it just knows how to predict the next word in a sentence. AI is becoming more prominent in the legal profession and will continue to grow in its usage and implementation in the years to come. Anything that can make our lives easier will always be a winner for us!
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I wouldn't call myself an expert at law firm applications by any means. If anything, I'd say I'm quite the opposite! Of all my non-law friends, I'm probably the newest to the process, having only just attempted it for the first time last December.
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While AI has been a nebulous topic for decades, especially in the last 12 months, there’s been enormous growth in “generative AI”.
To coincide with Black History Month, the Law Society is holding a series of events at Chancery Lane in celebration of the achievements of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers.
The legal healthcare charity LawCare’s review of 2012 has reported that stress issues continue to be the most frequent reason that lawyers call its helpline.
Nottingham Law School is launching an LLM in international energy, designed to prepare students for careers in the petrol and mining industries.
BPP Law School in Leeds has been nominated in two categories in the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards, due to be held on 11 June 2014.
Following criticism from solicitors and the justice secretary, the Law Society has withdrawn its guidance to solicitors on how to legally prepare wills so that they obey Sharia succession rules.
Nottingham Law School has applied to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for an alternative business structure licence, which would allow the school’s students to become part of a "teaching law firm".
Mishcon de Reya LLP has partnered with legal education provider BARBRI Global to refugee lawyers for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and help them requalify as solicitors in England and Wales.
As graduation looms, so does the prospect of the ‘real world’ becoming a reality. Gulp. Especially with the past year and a half being so different (to put it politely), I for one can hardly believe that my undergraduate degree is almost over.
Organised around the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015, a new scheme has been launched by Lord Dyson to send young solicitors and barristers into schools and encourage students to pursue a career in law.