The Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2015, run by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group have been launched.

From September 2012, all of Farrer & Co's future trainees will receive their training at Kaplan Law School.

Women make up all of the latest round of partner promotions at leading corporate firm Travers Smith. 

The Supreme Court has refused to quash the introduction of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA), which assesses the competency of criminal barristers.

The BBC is opening applications for three in-house training contracts at the beginning of March.

Membership organisation Solicitors for the Elderly has announced plans to rename itself as The Association of Lifetime Lawyers.  

The Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board are responsible for prescribing the training requirements needed to qualify as a solicitor or a barrister in England and Wales.

Typically, competition and regulatory work includes merger control under the Enterprise Act 2002 and the EU Merger Regulation, regulatory and court proceedings under the Competition Act 1998 and EU legislation, issues arising from sector-specific regulation, state aid, consumer protection, and public sector and utility procurement issues.

The Junior Lawyers Division has opened applications for its upcoming annual expedition to Tanzania, run in conjunction with the sustainable development charity Raleigh International.

Charter Chambers formally closed earlier in the year as a result of the pandemic but has since reinvented itself online as Crucible – a digital barristers’ set.

According to research conducted by Legal Week, Norton Rose and Allen & Overy are top of the list of firms that lawyers would like to work for, outside of their own.

Nine law firms feature in The Times’ top 50 employers for women 2015.

The decision on whether or not to approve plans for a new solicitors’ ‘super exam’ has been delayed once again by the Legal Services Board.

Skills for Justice has launched the Career Pathways portal, a resource designed to help job seekers, including wannabe lawyers, better understand the range of roles and progression routes in their respective work sectors.

The Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) provides legal advice to UK prisoners about their rights and conditions, and takes up prisoner complaints.

The Law Society has said that plans for a new, purpose-built court in London should serve to cement England & Wales’ reputation as the jurisdiction of choice for international commercial legal services and dispute resolution.

Following a successful live session in October, LawCareers.Net's Oracle will be back online to answer all your questions.

Short week means a short round-up, but still packed with interesting stuff.

Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham merged on 1 November, with the new firm now called Charles Russell Speechlys.

To be eligible for the GDL, students must hold a degree from a UK institution or a foreign institution which the Solicitors Regulation Authority considers to be an equivalent.