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

A Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) student at the University of Law has won the prestigious Future Legal Mind essay competition for 2017. 

A group of six City law firms have partnered with BPP University Law School to develop a new course that will prepare future trainees for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).

The University of Law is preparing to open a new centre in Leeds in September 2014, relocating its existing York centre there.

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

The University of Law will launch a two-year specialist undergraduate law degree in international legal practice in 2014, the first of this kind of accelerated LLB in the United Kingdom.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

Luke Gueli is an associate in the corporate team at Jones Day. In this interview, Luke outlines how the firm’s non-rotational training system works, the international work Jones Day is involved in and his role as a trainee and a newly qualified associate advising multi-national corporations on corporate transactions.  

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 scholarships to aspiring solicitors, welcoming them into its Diversity Access Scheme (DAS), which is now in its 21st year. The DAS supports those facing social, educational, financial or personal obstacles to qualifying – assisting awardees on their legal academic journey and helping them obtain relevant work experience and access to mentoring opportunities.

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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.