All solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers desire a specific set of skills  from their trainees and pupils. This guide explains how to self-assess your skillset, demonstrate these key skills on application forms and focus on areas you need to improve.

All solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers desire a specific set of skills from their trainees and pupils. This guide explains how to self-assess your skillset, demonstrate these key skills on application forms and focus on areas you need to improve.

In this webinar hosted by LawCareers.Net and The University of Law, we cover exactly what the Legal Practice Course and Solicitors Qualifying Exam routes look like, what study options are available, and top tips on pursuing the path that is right for you.

The London Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Business and Law has been awarded funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to set up a mentoring programme for law undergraduates from under-represented backgrounds.

International firm Clyde & Co has become the latest law firm to embrace socially responsible marketing by partnering with social enterprise organisation Change Please for its free coffee giveaways at this year’s university law fairs. 

The student-run pro bono clinic at Northumbria University, Student Law Office, has secured more than £130,000 in compensation for its clients in 2013/14.

CILEX Law School has been approved to deliver the new CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) – a training route that is open to those without a university qualification and has been redesigned to ensure it produces lawyers that have the skills necessary to adapt to the ever-changing demands of the legal market.  

No matter what stage of your undergraduate you’re at, you likely don’t yet know what your specialist area of law is going to be. With such a huge range of areas within law, it can sometimes be overwhelming to decide which one’s for you. This is a discussion to try and point you in the right direction. 

BPTC students from the University of Law have been involved in a series of mock trials at the crown court.

Nottingham Law School is to launch the United Kingdom’s first dedicated centre for the academic study of advocacy.

Law Society president Linda Lee has become the first female head of the society to admit her daughter to the roll of solicitors.

In this guide we outline some of the key issues facing the UK legal profession, as well as headline-grabbing legal updates and mergers – are you in the know?