Find out about DLA Piper’s insight programme and summer internship with Petra Smith, the firm’s graduate recruitment manager.

Commonhold ‘reformation’ – is this a holistic fix for a broken and outdated leasehold system, as formulated by the government in its recent Commonhold White Paper?

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has begun offering training contracts as early as to students who are still 18 years old. 

Weightmans and Mace & Jones have announced they are to merge, creating a UK top 50 firm with a combined fee income of £75 million.

As law firms navigate economic instability and embrace the rise of AI, there’s a fundamental shift in how clients evaluate their services and value.

Magic circle firm Linklaters has launched a new innovation podcast series, Linkubator, aimed at students who want to develop their understanding of how the legal sector is being transformed by innovation and emerging technologies.

The JLD is running a free one-day event for LPC students, designed to help them in their search for a training contract and to gain awareness of the issues they may face along the way.

Nabarro has released its spring retention results and announced that all eight trainees will continue at the firm as newly-qualified solicitors.

The fifth annual Sport Resolutions conference took place last week, with this year’s focus on the key industry issues of anti-doping, gambling addiction and racism in sport.

Ravi Pattani, partner at Reed Smith, explains what makes a successful application, the work of a corporate lawyer and how sector agnostics his matters are, and his advice for budding solicitors.  

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden over sexual assault and rape allegations - has applied to turn his name into a trademark in a bid to protect it for use in "public speaking" and "entertainment services".

Barristers' clerks are keen to be regulated and, by extension, recognised as a profession in their own right.

The University of Exeter is to once again provide the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course after agreeing to collaborate with The University of Law.

The Association of Graduate Recruiters has recently published its bi-annual survey, suggesting graduate job vacancies will rise by 17% this summer.

A new two-part Bar course that will replace the BPTC has been given provisional approval.

Bott & Co, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, is the latest firm to announce a plan for the recruitment of legal apprentices to join its team.

As my Legal Practice Course draws to a close, I thought now would be the perfect time to reflect back on my experience and consider what I wish I knew earlier.

The impact of the pandemic on how we view and think about work has proven to be long lasting. In the legal sector, MLA’s recent generation Z (gen Z) survey revealed that 69% of gen Z lawyers believed that the pandemic influenced what they value in an employer.

To what extent was Tesco Bank at fault in its response to a major cyber attack?