The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) has published the results of its first CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ) assessments, with 61% of students passing the first stage. 

The UK economy has edged back into growth following an April slowdown, while the government is considering new rules that could require employers to disclose salary information in job adverts. Elsewhere, Uber has agreed a blockbuster $14.8 billion takeover of Delivery Hero, creating one of the world’s largest food delivery businesses, and Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether TikTok is doing enough to stop children accessing harmful content. Read on for LawCareers.Net’s pick of this week’s top commercial stories.

The Law Society has responded to the concerns raised in the legal education and training review, reinforcing its commitment to the traditional route to qualification while simultaneously acknowledging that the LETR should lead to the opening of alternative ways into the profession.

Multinational law firm Linklaters LLP has revealed a trainee retention rate of 83% for its London-based trainees qualifying in autumn, while Mills & Reeve LLP will retain 24 of its 26 trainees.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to visit at least 55 firms that it has identified as being at high risk of financial instability.

Expect most news agencies to be preoccupied by the mayoral election today, but there is still lots of commercial news doing the rounds.

In this guide we outline some of the key issues facing the UK legal profession, as well as headline-grabbing cases and mergers – are you in the know?

A pilot scheme launched by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which gives law students the chance to help unrepresented doctors who have been referred for a fitness-to-practise hearing, is enjoying early success.

Will the smoking ban have employers fuming?

What’s the 'authentaverse' and how could it be used to reduce digital fraud?

The Solicitors Regulation Authority should tighten its rules on non-disclosure agreements, MPs have been told.

According to Legal Week, the London office of US firm Shearman & Sterling is to retain 11 of its 12 September-qualifying trainees.

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With CityLawLIVE happening tomorrow, and the LC.N team scurrying around trying to connect would-be City lawyers with actual City lawyers, we’re rounding up our commercial news a day early this week.

Cardiff Employment Law Pro Bono Advice Clinic has been relaunched following its closure in 2014, taking the number of advice centres in the LawWorks network to 200.

New research by employee benefits technology provider Zest showed employees in the UK legal sector were leading calls for greater financial support, with private medical insurance the most in-demand benefit among law firm employees.

How does the ruling in DnaNudge v Ventura Capital impact the future of venture capital and private equity transactions?