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The College of Law has launched several new scholarships to assist potential lawyers with their student fees.
The Black Solicitors Network has identified Shoosmiths as the country's most diverse law firm in its 2011 Diversity League Table.
The Law Society’s equality and diversity committee has approved a campaign to bring flexible working policies, for men as well as women, into “the mainstream of employment practices at law firms”, Legal Futures has reported.
The Bar Standards Board is set to introduce an aptitude test which wannabe barristers must pass to gain admission to the BPTC.
Ahead of new Legal Services Board regulations that will require the publication of diversity data next year, Shearman and Sterling has released its diversity stats – the first US firm in London to do so.
The College of Law has launched two new scholarships aimed at students starting the BPTC in autumn 2012.
For the very first time, the Bar Council and Bar Standards Board have published the Bar Barometer, an annual report on statistical trends within the Bar.
LawCareers.Net has launched its very own YouTube channel, with a view to helping students build up their commercial awareness, sharing top career tips and going behind the scenes with the legal profession's movers and shakers.
High numbers of female lawyers feel that the profession must undergo serious cultural change in order to increase the representation of women in partnership positions and stop female lawyers from deserting law altogether, a survey has revealed.
The Times has released its annual list of the country’s 100 most influential lawyers, as judged by the paper.
The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society has attacked a move by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to amend its minimum wage consultation, which could see trainees earning as little as £2.60 an hour.
In its report on judicial appointments, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has found that a more diverse judiciary would increase public trust and confidence in the country's justice system.
Only 20% of barristers nominated for the honorary QC title between 2010 and 2012 were women, with 62 of the 81 people put forward in that time being men.
The College of Law (CoL) held an event entitled 'Diversity at the Bar' on Monday 16 April, at which leading barrister and human rights expert Baroness Helena Kennedy QC was the keynote speaker.
As pressure continues to mount on the legal sector regarding the diversity of its workforce, Herbert Smith has announced that it will commence piloting unconscious bias training for its partners on 30 May.
The Law Society has attacked the Solicitors Regulation Authority's consultation on the abolition of the minimum salary for trainee solicitors.
Skills for Justice and London Apprenticeship Company have announced that they are uniting to create the first legal services apprenticeships in the United Kingdom.
The Association of Women Solicitors has criticised the Solicitors Regulation Authority's decision to abolish the minimum salary for trainee solicitors.
On 24 May 2012 240 guests attended the ninth annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards.
The Legal Services Consumer Panel, the law watchdog, has claimed in its submission to the Legal Education and Training Review that legal training is failing because it is too generalised.