Are you qualifying via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) and unsure how to request reasonable adjustments for the assessments? This short guide outlines the steps you need to take.

Whenever a large industrial or infrastructure project is conceived, built and operated, legal advice is key.

Lockdowns and leases: what drafting trends have emerged to handle the effects of covid-19 on the high street?

Online legal tools for women to protect themselves from domestic abuse and a chatbot designed to help people with special educational needs access legal advice are among the eight Legal Access Challenge finalists.

International firm Clyde & Co has become the latest law firm to embrace socially responsible marketing by partnering with social enterprise organisation Change Please for its free coffee giveaways at this year’s university law fairs. 

This week all eyes were on the "meeting of the century" (so described by North Korea’s official state newspaper), which was "tremendous" (so described by Trump). 

Last week saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson extend the UK’s lockdown by three weeks. This week’s commercial news round-up summarises several important developments in the business and legal worlds that we think you should know about.

City firm Fladgate LLP has introduced a voluntary scheme offering approximately 30 real estate lawyers the option to work a four-day work week from January to March this year.

New EU trading rules cause concern and Jeremy Hunt falls short on plans to cut taxes in the spring. Plus, Universal Music has started to remove its songs from TikTok and HSBC faces a fine from the Bank of England. Find out more in this week’s commercial news round-up.

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. 

While Gray’s Inn is the smallest of the four Inns, it still offers 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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