The prestigious LawWorks and Attorney General Student Awards has opened for nominations.

The Legal Advice Centre at Nottingham Law School, dubbed a ‘teaching law firm’, has recovered over £3 million in benefits and compensation for its clients in five years.

The outstanding pro bono and volunteering achievements of individual lawyers, law firms, charities and advice clinics were celebrated last week at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards.

The 2016-17 Law School Challenge pro bono competition was announced last week by LawWorks and the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

Cardiff Law School will be offering the GDL from September 2012, subject to validation by the SRA.

Year 12 students interested in a career in law and eligible for the Pathways to Law scheme have one week until the application window closes.

In an effort to fill the gap left by legal aid cuts, the Community Law Clinic opened its doors in September 2017.

The InterLaw Diversity Forum’s flagship early careers event is back! On Friday 9 December 100 aspiring lawyers from diverse, socially mobile, and underrepresented groups will be welcomed for a day of inspiring panel discussions and practical workshops. 

Large firms are misusing the apprenticeship levy to fund traditional graduate training, Law Society Council member James Kitching has said in a recent column for the Law Gazette.   

On Friday 12 October LawCareers.Net’s very own agony aunt, the Oracle, will be answering questions live on Twitter between 3.00-3.30pm.

Kaplan Law School is to close at the end of 2016, it has been announced.

The trend of the ‘micro’ law firm - a boutique practice that is part of a larger firm’s network - has been rising because the biggest law firms struggle to exert the desired control over their large practices, according to a leading academic.

The new edition of The LawCareers.Net Handbook: The Training Contract & Pupillage Guide (formerly known as The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook) is now available to readers.

The SRA has backed a new training scheme which could slash the number of graduates recruited by City law firms.

Cardiff Employment Law Pro Bono Advice Clinic has been relaunched following its closure in 2014, taking the number of advice centres in the LawWorks network to 200.

Yorkshire personal injury firm Minster Law has been bought by BGL Group, insurance intermediary and owner of comparethemarket.com.

The College of Law has launched an online 'virtual open day'.

LawCareers.Net is delighted to announce the launch of the Student Law Society Awards 2018. 

Two BPTC students from The City Law School have won the 13th international Commonwealth Student Moot, which marks the first victory in the competition for a team from the United Kingdom in 10 years.

LPC and BPTC students keen to boost their CVs might be interested in a new competition being run by the Sentencing Council, the first prize of which is a law firm work placement or mini-pupillage.