The Bar Standards Board has decided to regulate advocacy-focused alternative business structures, legal disciplinary practices and barrister-only entities.

Herbert Smith Freehills and The Times are running their annual student advocacy competition, with submissions due by 22 July 2013.

Simmons & Simmons LLP and TLT LLP have launched joint training contracts with Barclays aimed at aspiring financial services lawyers. 

Although Gray’s Inn is the smallest of the four Inns, it awards more than £1.5 million in scholarships, awards and prizes each year. 

UK businesses, including law firms, are to be ranked on their openness to talent from all backgrounds in a joint initiative by the Social Mobility Foundation and Social Mobility Commission. 

One of my first posts for LawCareers.Net was a profile piece on the icon that is Lady Hale. As the first female justice of the Supreme Court (appointed in 2009), she is rightfully regarded as a role model for women in the legal sphere and beyond. Her appointment fanned discussion about the lack of diversity in the highest UK court, a discussion that is now rising again with the recent appointment of Lady Justice Rose.

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Achieving an inbox zero sounds too good to be true, especially for trainee solicitors.

Use this guide to compare the new preparation courses for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) by key criteria including fees, learning styles and locations.

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A leading academic has joined the chorus of criticism directed at the proposed new Solicitors Qualifying Examination, saying that it is “too good to be true”.

I hope you all had a chance to take a break from studying and applications over the winter break.

Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and seven other law firms have been ranked among the top 100 graduate employers, compiled by The Times.

The Junior Lawyers Division is holding a one-day, free skills event at the Law Society for LPC students.

Some 70% of first-six pupil barristers in 2011-12 enrolled on the BPTC without having secured pupillage, according to the joint annual report made by the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board earlier this month.

Find out about Addleshaw Goddard’s placement scheme, what the firm wants to see in your applications and how it’s adopting the Solicitors Qualifying Exam in this Meet the Recruiter interview.