A recent report commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has shown the wide variety of education and training processes used across the legal profession.

The Times and City law firm Herbert Smith Freehills have announced the topic for their annual student advocacy competition.

The Bar Council has this week hosted the second Bar Placement Week in Leeds and Manchester, following the scheme’s success in 2014.

The House of Commons Justice Committee has summoned justice secretary Chris Grayling to examine the government's proposed cuts to legal aid for a second time.

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

The time has come for me to leave LCN blogging. It has been an absolutely fantastic experience and a career-building opportunity. Here are my final thoughts for all potential and current law students.

For ease, here are some of the latest legal developments in the NoTW hacking story.

There were 238 more barristers in 2023/24 compared to 2022/23, according to data from the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) annual report. This takes the total number of BSB-regulated barristers to 17,656.

Mills & Reeve has been named as one of 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For in The Sunday Times’ annual analysis of workplace engagement and satisfaction in the United Kingdom.

The government’s ban on prisoners being sent books has been ruled unlawful by the High Court.

Recently merged Womble Bond Dickinson has taken on five new legal apprentices in its Plymouth office. The apprentices will work in the firm’s corporate and commercial, real estate and dispute resolution teams.

Law firms across the country have released their trainee retention figures for September 2012.

The legal sector's drive to improve social mobility across its professions stepped up a gear on 2 March 2012, with the launch of the social mobility toolkit.

According to a recent report in The Lawyer, increased demand has caused the waiting time for cases to progress from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court to more than double.

HM Judiciary is advertising 21 fixed-term 10-month posts for full-time judicial assistants to the Court of Appeal’s civil division. 

The latest Association of Graduate Recruiters survey has revealed that the number of applicants going for each training contract vacancy has jumped from 35 to 65.5.

The Solicitors’ Charity has introduced The Legal Pause, a new podcast focused on promoting solicitor wellbeing across England and Wales.

Some solicitors and barristers have said they will refuse to take on new criminal cases in protest at the government’s decision to cut legal aid fees for criminal cases by a further 8.75%.

As reported in Legal Futures, a best practice code aimed at preventing the biased granting of internships and improving social mobility for underprivileged students has received backing from the Legal Serves Board, Law Society and Bar Council.