What role is the UK financial services industry playing in the fight against climate change?

Are AdWords reducing the value of trademarks online?

Nineteen leading law firms have signed up to ‘the social mobility pledge’, an initiative aimed at tackling the depressing lack of upward social mobility in British society.

Is too much hype a challenge facing legal technology?

City firms have lined up in support of diversity organisation Rare’s new ‘Vantage’ scheme, an online recruitment tool designed to help candidates from less-privileged backgrounds break through the artificial barriers holding them back from careers in law.

In the wake of the recent UK referendum vote to leave the European Union, what issues have been raised for those working in European offices of international law firms?

Traditionally, law firms have been run by partnerships – a group of senior lawyers who put their own money into the firm in return for a share of the profits. However, in the modern legal profession there are many different types of partnership, with huge variety in terms of how firms are structured.

What is corporate law and how have things changed over the last year?

Who owns footballers’ performance data? 

How will the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's new costs management rules affect litigation cases?

Working class students face disproportionate barriers at university and are dropping out without graduating in increasing numbers, while universities are not doing enough to provide support, new research has revealed.

Serious interventions are needed to improve diversity in the overwhelmingly white, male and privileged judiciary of England and Wales, a human rights group has said after reporting that the country’s judges are among the least diverse of a host of developed nations.

Legal education provider BARBRI has secured new partnerships with Young Legal Aid Lawyers and STRIVE to support aspiring solicitors from all socio-economic backgrounds to take the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and qualify as solicitors.  

I hope that by writing about this – something not uncommon with neurodivergent people – then our peers, colleagues and employers can be more accepting of our experiences.

While public speaking for many of us can be incredibly anxiety-inducing, for autistics that anxiety can be overwhelming and even result in sensory overwhelm or meltdowns where our bodies and minds simply can’t process the intense amount of information around us.

What are the investment issues relating to ESG?

City law firm Kingsley Napley announced that its ‘BAME & Allies Network’ has changed its name to “the Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage (REACH) group,” in a blog post on its website.

The Law Society is in support of a five-point pathway of tangible steps to boost social mobility and break the City’s ‘class ceiling’ following a report from the City’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce.

LawCareers.Net has teamed up with diversity organisations Aspiring Interns and upReach to offer free places to LawCareersNetLIVE.