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The first ever UK Commercial Awareness Competition has been won by a team of students from Queen Mary University of London.

International firm Clifford Chance has announced the winners of its third annual 'intelligent aid' competition, prizes for which crucially include vac scheme places with the firm.

The application deadline for student delegate places at the CityLawLIVE conference passed on 6 January, and well over 500 applications were received.

Reed Smith and Mayer Brown joined Aspiring Solicitors at an event discussing how to increase awareness and understanding of disabilities in the legal profession earlier this month.

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The regulator for chartered legal executives is pushing for powers to award greater practising rights, in a move that marks the first step toward enabling chartered legal executives to establish their own practices.

The SRA has released its Training for Tomorrow policy paper, which among other things promises "radical" reforms to the current education and training system and an end to the "one-size-fits-all" approach to solicitors' qualification.

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Horwich Farrelly has recruited 18 new apprentices – nearly double the amount it took on last year. The firm’s two-year apprenticeship scheme was one of the first to launch in the United Kingdom.

A number of City law firms have collaborated to create a legal operations graduate scheme, which includes a four-week course and workshops. 

Stephenson Harwood LLP has launched global fertility and pregnancy loss policies for its employees. All partners and global employees can benefit from the policy which aims to emotionally support people through their parenthood journey.

Cooley LLP, a leading technology and life sciences US law firm, has announced the launch of its UK practice.

A “fully flexible work space” is available to all staff working in DLA Piper’s Birmingham office, following its move to the Paradise Birmingham Development – a move which was in the works before the pandemic hit last year. 

The University of Law has announced that it will be offering more than £2 million in scholarships and bursaries ahead of the 2020/21 academic year, among the highest of any UK law school.

This week over 20,000 of the world’s most senior business and political leaders are gathering in the icy climes of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum. With this year’s theme “Creating a shared future in a fractured world”, items on the agenda include financial stability, tax avoidance, gender equality, terrorism and climate change. But that’s not all – there is also this carefully curated selection of business news to keep an eye on.

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