The Bar Council is again running its annual Pupillage Fair in London. The fair is on Saturday 21 October, 10.00am-4.00pm, at The University of Law, Moorgate and is free for students to attend. 

The new edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook was published this week and copies are winging their way to university campuses nationwide as we write.

The Sackers graduate solicitor apprenticeship programme offers aspiring solicitors an alternative path into the legal profession.

Students at the University of Bolton are opening a free legal advice centre to help fill the huge gaps in services left by government cuts to legal aid.

A training contract, or qualifying work experience (QWE), is a two-year period spent working at a law firm or other organisation that employs solicitors. It’s one of the stages required to qualify as a solicitor.

As my bio probably reveals, my name is Celine and I'm a current English undergraduate student at University College London or UCL (although not for much longer!).

Qualifying work experience (QWE) is one of the four requirements needed to qualify as a solicitor via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).

Thursday 20 January 2022 is the first results day for part one of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). Candidates who sat SQE1 in November 2021 received their results at 3:00pm today via their SQE candidate accounts. 

The winners of the 2023 National Accident Helpline’s Future Legal Mind competition have been revealed, with Emily Eastburn-Pentreath taking the title for the postgraduate category and Stephanie Anais becoming the latest undergraduate winner. 

Further to news that the release date for the findings of the Legal Education and Training Review has again been delayed, the unique five-year qualifying degree offered by Northumbria University has been put on hold.

I’d always wanted to pursue a career in the law, despite initially choosing to study English at university. After a year, I changed paths to study a law degree, even though it meant I had to complete my first year again.

How did we get here? Let me rephrase, as I don’t mean to engage in philosophy or theology – why did you and I choose to study law, or why do we have an interest in a legal career?

Has anyone else reached the point of the university year where your workload is so unmanageable that the only thing you do instead of facing it is watching TV? No? Just me? If you are looking for a way to salve your conscious as you turn your back on the hundreds of pages of reading you haven’t done yet (and which you promise yourself you will catch up on over Christmas), I would recommend watching something that is (however loosely) based around the law in some way. 

As universities plan to hike tuition fees, some firms are to review the financial assistance on offer to their future trainees.

The University of Law has announced a new payment option, allowing full-time postgraduate students to pay by monthly direct debit.

European law firm Fieldfisher has partnered with global architecture and design firm Gensler to provide paid summer internships for students from Queen Mary University of London with disabilities or long-term health conditions. 

I'm finishing my final year of a non-law degree. Is the application process for a vacation scheme or training contract more difficult or different for non-law students?

The Government Legal Service, which is offering opportunities to trainee solicitors and pupil barristers, has been promoted by Attorney General Dominic Grieve to university career advisers.

BPP University Law School is launching a new £1.5 million AI-powered learning platform from September to help train and prepare future lawyers for success in their exams.