The legal profession is all over the front pages this week, with all eyes on the Supreme Court as it considers whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully by suspending Parliament.

The 2016 Law Society Law Management Section Financial Benchmarking Survey has shown that the income of firms has increased for a sixth consecutive year, with a median rise last year of 5.4%. 

What caused the change in the law around e-scooters and why is it still not possible to ride personal e-scooters in public?

After a long summer holiday, it can be hard to keep up with fast-paced and intense university life. As a law student, you may be struggling with doing all your reading, seminar preparation and career planning on the side. It’s important to remember that this is normal, that your peers are in the same situation and you'll adjust to your new setting over time. Here are a few tips that aim to help you ease back into university and help with organisation.

Best in Law, sister publication to LawCareers.Net and The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook, has just been published. Now in its 12th year, the magazine is published in conjunction with the LC.N Training & Recruitment Awards.

As anyone entering the legal profession is constantly reminded, it’s competitive to get a training contract. Applicants can be competing against hundreds, if not thousands, of other candidates for a small number of training contract vacancies. While some law firms will take on 50+ trainees a year, other firms employ only a handful.

London-based law firm Hodge Jones & Allen (HJA) has partnered with the charity Pathway, a homeless healthcare service, to provide legal assistance to homeless patients as they seek accommodation after being discharged from hospital. 

Both the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Government Legal Profession (GLP) offer pupillages leading to permanent roles with fixed salaries, holiday and sickness pay, pensions and all the usual employment protection rights.

What new legislation has been implemented recently to address the issues with liability of fire defects? 

Applications for vacation schemes and training contracts are currently being processed by law firms across the globe and, as video interviews and psychometric testing continue, many candidates are now being invited to assessment centres.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched a package of support to help solicitors who may be experiencing mental health issues. 

Welcome to the next topic in this series, where I attempt to make commercial awareness content for non-law students like myself.

If you've just started applying, or have already finished all of your submissions, well done! You've completed, in my opinion, the hardest part. The next step is converting those applications into placement offers. In this post, I'll describe how you can succeed in the next stage of psychometric testing, and some advice for post-application worries.

It’s not necessary to have a law degree to become a lawyer. 

Will Open Banking prove to be a banking revolution or a steady change?

What opportunities are there for commercial real estate lawyers post-covid?