This week, we have tried to provide a more varied selection of business news, although we can’t entirely ignore Brexit-related updates - read on for other stuff. 

Spring may have sprung, but that is no reason to neglect your commitment to self-improvement and progressing your legal career. This week’s selection is a real mixed-bag of commercial stories that should serve to pique your interest in the business world.

All Bar courses approved by the Bar Standards Board prepare students to pass the same centralised assessments.

I know that I need to understand how a law firm operates as a business to be commercially aware. What exactly does that involve?

Don’t let the soaring temperatures distract you from the task at hand; namely, improving your understanding of the commercial world.

The first set of dates for sittings of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) have been announced.

Are modern hi-tech offices bad for your health and happiness?

As the deadlines for training contracts all come crashing in on you, and the emails flood in about whether you’re moving on to the next stage or not, it’s hard to focus on what life might be like as a trainee solicitor, so here’s a glimpse into my life as a trainee.

David Edmonds, chair of the Legal Services Board, has confirmed that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has satisfied the criteria to become an approved regulator of alternative business structures.

The Law Society is taking to the road with a Question Time-style show, designed to raise awareness among the profession about the opportunities and challenges in 2011 and beyond.

A team from the University of Law's Manchester centre has won the fourth annual DAC Beachcroft Mooting Shield.

Section 137(1) of the Highways Act 1980 codifies the offence of wilfully obstructing a highway without lawful reason or excuse. Given the popularity of roadblocking as a form of peaceful protest, this provision has repeatedly been used as a catch-all clause with which many arrested protestors can be charged.

The first group legal aid trainees to have been sponsored through their training contracts by the Legal Education Foundation’s Justice First Fellowship have qualified as solicitors. 

At RPC, you can be you. In an environment that's real. #StrikinglyReal

Following on from fellow blogger Indiya Kainth’s piece on how working from home might be affecting the individual, I was inspired to write the following piece on how working from home might affect law firms. 

Why do landlords shifting into the commercial sector need to be aware of the provisions entitling tenants to security of tenure? 

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched a campaign to give the public an opportunity to say what kinds of action should be taken against solicitors whose conduct breaks the rules on professional standards.

Law degrees are offered at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University in Northern Ireland.