The College of Law, in collaboration with the City Solicitors’ Educational Trust, hosted a forum to investigate the best ways of promoting social mobility in the legal sector on 28 September.

Barristers involved in this field deal with claims against professionals such as architects, accountants, solicitors and financial advisers who’ve allegedly failed to provide services with the level of care and skill which a member of that profession would be expected to demonstrate.

Gabs Rodriguez-Cleary didn't study law and took a non-typical route to becoming a trainee at Shoosmiths. Find out about his journey and the transferable skills he has brought from his previous degree and work.

A&O’s Hannah Rolph kicks off our Ask The Recruiter Series with an introduction to the firm, and an update on A&O’s recruitment process for 2020.

Research published at the end of last year suggests that a working-class accent could damage your chances of finding a training contract.

Is current inheritance tax legislation fit for purpose? And can we expect to see change?

John Lewis is hit by inflation, Poundland has joined B&M in purchasing a number Wilko’s shops, ministers call for the banning of single-use vapes and electromagnetic radiation in iPhone 12’s halts sales in France. Find out more with LawCareers.Net’s commercial news round-up.

Three firms are now taking applications for training contracts and vacation schemes through the Apply4Law online application system, while a fourth – Kingsley Napley – has opened applications for training contracts only.

Fifteen law firms and other legal sector organisations have made this year’s list of the top 100 LGBT-inclusive employers, compiled by charity Stonewall.

Trainee solicitors’ pay should be increased, the Law Society has recommended. 

Career changers and mature candidates can make great lawyers. Many solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers value the transferable skills and experiences that career changers bring, with some explicitly encouraging career changers to apply. Read on to learn how you can make the change from your old career into law.

The London Olympic Games 2012 bid is simply about sport, right?

CILEx president Nick Hanning has urged Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to make further concessions to his controversial plans to change legal aid, following a partial U-turn on the government’s proposal to deny legal aid recipients the right to choose a lawyer.

The accountancy firm KPMG has recently been awarded an alternative business structure licence by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Meet Shehnal Amin, associate at Farrer & Co. She discusses why she was attracted to a career in law, how she chose to apply to Farrers, the extra-curricular activities on offer at the firm as well as what life is like day-to-day in the employment team.

The SRA has published a report on the results of its work-based learning pilot, which began in September 2008.