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The Next 100 Years project has launched a new film series, supported by full-service law firm Irwin Mitchell LLP.

You can use LawCareers.Net’s weekly commercial news round-ups for a snippet of some of the week’s interesting stories that are likely to impact your shortlisted firms and their clients. 

Solicitors in England and Wales celebrate Ramadan, wishing Muslim employees well as they balance fasting with working.

National law firm Browne Jacobson LLP has welcomed six work experience students who are part of the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme, as part of the firm’s efforts to improve access and diversity within the profession. 

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) will scrap the Bar course aptitude test (BCAT) despite opposition from the Bar Council.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP published its 2021 pay gap report last week, revealing another positive year in the firm’s efforts to reduce its gender pay gap. 

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has published the results of its first CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) assessments, with 61% of students passing the first stage. 

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has published the results of its first CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) assessments, with 61% of students passing the first stage. 

The Law Society’s annual statistics report 2020 offers a snapshot of the profession in the 12 months to 31 July 2020, with women outnumbering men plus concerns regarding ethnicity reporting and monitoring as most newly-qualified solicitors do not disclose “their ethnic origin on the mySRA website”. 

It's Neurodiversity Celebration Week! A week that “challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences”, according to the Law Society.

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has enrolled nine scholarship winners onto the CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) – a new approach to on-the-job training which CILEX launched in 2021. 

Law societies, law firm representatives and the LawCareers.Net team gathered last night on Thursday 17 March 2022 to celebrate the eighth annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards.

Stronger Together is a network designed to “promote racial diversity, inclusion and equality” in Leeds’ professional services sector, while identifying ways to create a more diverse and inclusive sector in the city.

As the legal industry pay war continues, DWF Group Plc CEO Sir Nigel Knowles has warned City firms that massive pay packages “is only a sticking plaster” and is “not a sincere, sustainable or healthy solution” for attracting and retaining talent. 

Women barristers, on average, earn nearly 50% less than their male counterparts, according to the Bar Standard Board’s (BSB) 2022 report on ‘Income at the Bar – by Gender and Ethnicity’.  

Applications for the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme (DAS) opened on Wednesday 23 February 2022. 

Mishcon de Reya LLP has partnered with legal education provider BARBRI Global to refugee lawyers for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and help them requalify as solicitors in England and Wales.

“I’ve had doors closed because of who I am, but I’ve also had doors opened because of who I am”, says Phil Steventon of The Neurodivergent Lawyer blog.

The University of Law and Hill Dickinson LLP have entered an exclusive partnership to deliver a brand-new graduate solicitor apprenticeship programme, which will replace the firm’s traditional trainee model. 

CILEx Regulation is “delighted” to have launched its first-ever equality, diversity and inclusion strategy earlier this week, which aims to promote fair access for all in the legal services market and implement measurable targets for the next two years.