I didn’t go to a selective school, but have good A-levels and my ambition is to be a City lawyer – what does this mean for my chances? What are law firms doing to improve the representation of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds?

The one-day London Law Fair - billed as an "open-access" fair - has opened for registration to all those who are interested in meeting "a range of organisations which are leading employers [and discovering] what they are looking for".

A whopping 86% of postgraduate law students believe that university law courses should prioritise employability training and professional skills development over academic prowess.

The University of Law has launched a new full-fees scholarship which will fund one student from a low-income household a year through their studies.

Statistics in a recently published annual report show that The College of Law’s Pathways to Law scheme has actively helped young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain places at leading universities.

The University of Exeter and international law firm Reed Smith have combined forces to create a new four-year LLB degree that will incorporate a year-long placement at Reed Smith’s London office.

Law degrees are offered at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University in Northern Ireland. 

The winners of the prestigious LawWorks and Attorney General’s Student Pro Bono Awards 2020 have been revealed.

The awards, sponsored by Lexis Nexis, celebrate the vital contributions to pro bono work of students and law schools. Although this year social distancing measures mean that there cannot be a ceremony hosted by the attorney general at the House of Commons, a ‘thank you’ event is planned for later in the year.

Apprenticeships in the legal sector have been gaining momentum over the past couple of years. The traditional route to being a lawyer has been challenged by, among other things, the apprenticeship levy, the rise of legal executives, increasing paralegal numbers, alternative business structures and most recently the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.

The 2010-11 Pathways to Law annual report has revealed that 47% of the first cohort of pathways participants was admitted to a Russell Group or 1994 Group university.

Shipping law is one of the oldest and most developed branches of commercial law.

The number of people applying to study law at university is rising at a higher rate than university applications across all subjects, figures released by UCAS have shown.

Queen Mary, University of London has announced the launch of a new flexible, English-language LLM in Paris.

London South Bank University has released a manual on how to establish and manage a drop-in legal advice clinic.

The Law Teacher of the Year Award 2011 has gone to University of Westminster professor of law and theory Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

Reed Smith and Queen Mary, University of London have launched a ‘law degree and apprenticeship’ qualification, which combines a LLB with a year-long placement at Reed Smith.

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how stories are told, how they can be told well and how you can use this to your advantage in a job interview.

As the Institute of Legal Executives and Manchester Metropolitan University partner up to offer a new qualifying LLB in legal practice, find out what other law schools and universities have been getting up to.