A significant rise in the number of students training to be barristers has been predicted, with the Bar Standards Board (BSB) expecting to collect almost £100,000 more in examination fees in 2020 than in 2019.

Solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers should reserve a proportion of training contracts and pupillages for candidates with disabilities in order to counterbalance the discrimination against disabilities pervading the legal profession, according to a new report.

If you meet the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) transitional arrangements, meaning you can continue to qualify via the LPC, you should be looking for as much information as possible about the various schools still offering the LPC before you apply.

Two more leading law firms have announced partnerships with Vantage, the online portal that matches diverse candidates with opportunities at top legal employers.

Irish firms Matheson and Arthur Cox have been named among Europe’s most innovative law firms in the Financial Times’ (FT) Innovative Lawyers 20 Years Report, which was launched on 24 June at the FT’s Innovative Lawyers Global Summit.

From later this month, City Law School's LPC and BPTC students can get involved with a new clinic run in partnership with human rights organisation Liberty.

Our intelligent, free SQE Revision App is here to help prepare you for SQE1, part of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam. The app is designed to help prepare and embed your Functioning Legal Knowledge, ready to take on the SQE1 assessments.

The Legal Education Foundation, one of the largest legal charitable foundations in the United Kingdom, has announced the first six organisations to be awarded grants.

A pilot scheme launched by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which gives law students the chance to help unrepresented doctors who have been referred for a fitness-to-practise hearing, is enjoying early success.

Representative bodies and legal academics have welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling which makes it clear that an act of parliament must authorise the government’s future triggering of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which will begin the process of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. 

Applications for the CILEX Foundation’s scholarship and bursary programme are due to close on Friday 29 July. 

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has officially confirmed its shake-up of the route to becoming a solicitor with a new ‘super exam’ which all prospective solicitors will have to pass in order to qualify. 

Browne Jacobson LLP (alongside PwC) tops the UK’s Social Mobility Employer Index for the third time, with magic circle law firms Slaughter and May, Linklaters LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP also featuring in this year’s top 10. 

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published the results for the April/May 2023 sitting of SQE2, revealing an overall pass rate of 77%, matching the results from April 2022 and up 6% from October 2022’s results. 

This webinar, sponsored by Dentons, Taylor Wessing and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, covers the basics of launching a legal career.

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To coincide with National Pro Bono Week 2012 (commencing Monday 5 November), LawWorks is running a student conference on Saturday 10 November.

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has announced that 83% of students passed the latest CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) Foundation assessments.