The Law Society has awarded 14 scholarships to aspiring solicitors through its Diversity Access Scheme (DAS), which supports aspiring solicitors who are facing social, educational, financial or personal obstacles to qualifying.

Macfarlanes' graduate recruitment partner John Hornby talks about Bristol Law School’s staff/student cricket match and explains why the firm got involved.

Many firms offer to pay their future trainees’ GDL and LPC fees, if they have been recruited while an undergraduate 

Three international law firms have teamed up with City University London to offer LLM students the chance to apply for three high-quality internships.

Leading law firm Paul Hastings LLP has partnered with diversity platform Aspiring Solicitors to host its first London office mentoring scheme for university students from diverse backgrounds, following conversations about racial inequality in the legal profession.

The Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme is now accepting applications for its 2018 round of scholarships until Sunday 8 April.

I’m a non-law student qualifying via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) – do I still need to do a law conversion course?

The Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) was introduced in September 2021. Here is everything we know about the new exams, from the syllabus, to the format of the exams themselves, to the cost for candidates, to what law firms, universities and law schools are doing.

Civil law involves relations between persons, and between persons and organisations.

Birmingham City University's School of Law has officially launched the Centre for American Legal Studies.

ITV has announced the launch of its new legal apprenticeship scheme. The broadcaster has partnered with CILEx Law School and City Law School to deliver the programme, which it says is the first in-house legal apprenticeship to be announced under the government’s Trailblazer scheme. 

On 23 April London Metropolitan University welcomed a variety of representatives from the legal profession to the law school for its first ever "Get Into Law" day, designed to advise students on how to get ahead in the profession.

This year’s Future Legal Mind competition has been won by Amy Loughrey, an undergraduate student at the University of York, and Lukas Hamilton Eddy, a postgraduate student at City University, London.

On 3 November The University of Law revealed its new articled apprenticeship scheme, which will allow school leavers to become fully qualified solicitors after six years of on-the-job training.

The Law Society of England and Wales’ has awarded 15 tenacious aspiring solicitors each a Diversity Access Scheme to help them qualify as a solicitor.

A team from the University of Law's Manchester centre has won the fourth annual DAC Beachcroft Mooting Shield.

Following a successful pilot, Bar training resits will be offered by BPP University Law School from spring 2024. 

The Social Mobility Foundation has opened applications for its 2014 programmes, including law, which provide young people from less privileged backgrounds with free mentoring, skills development, internships and support with university applications.

The Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) will have a negative impact on students and academics, and represents a “step backwards” for diversity and equal access to careers in the legal profession, according to law lecturers.