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Morgan Lewis confirms Dewey trainee intake
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has confirmed that it has hired seven former Dewey & LeBouef trainees.
Co-op Legal Services targets 100 trainee annual intake
The Co-operative’s legal arm Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) plans to offer 100 training contracts annually within the next five years.
Co-op ABS plans to create thousands of legal jobs
The Co-operative Group has unveiled plans to create 3,000 jobs in the legal sector as it aims to revolutionise how legal services are delivered on the high street.
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Hogan Lovells trainees get bite of the Apple
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Eversheds awards extra points for language skills
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Liverpool Law Society offers members LL.M incentive
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Oxford named best 2013 law faculty
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Profession remains elite despite social diversity push
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Supreme Court blocks ex-CoL student's appeal
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Lawyers raise over £525,000 for free legal advice
Features & Analysis
DIY law clinic
University law clinics not only meet a public need, they also help students to develop their vocational skills. Laura Manning finds out how to start, maintain and develop your own clinic
Know business
Commercial awareness is a must-have for the modern lawyer. Christian Metcalfe takes a look at the best ways to get business-savvy - and how to show that you know your stuff
Prepare to succeed
How do you make the most of that coveted law firm interview? Our expert panel provides some valuable pointers
Business as usual
?Seventy per cent of disabled students are concerned about disclosing their disability to potential employers. Laura Manning asks why
Editor's weekly: There's more to life than books
Shut up in the library or at home putting in long hours at the books it can seem like it is only there that the answers can be found.
What do regional firms look for?
I am looking to work for a regional law firm, do they look for different things?
Regional focus Bristol
Building a reputation as an economic powerhouse to rival any UK city outside London, the capital of the South West has shown great resilience during the recession and looks set to return to growth as a centre for the sectors that are likely to blossom.
Legal Brief
Legal Brief: The blame game
While the mainstream media focused last week on the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s criticism of Rupert Murdoch for the News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal, what the committee’s report said about the legal players in the saga is equally interesting.
The Blog
Poker-faced regulators
On Tuesday, I was speaking at a seminar on access to the legal profession, and reforming legal education and training, hosted by Westminster Legal Policy Forum. The venue was the Hall of India and Pakistan at Over-Seas House near Piccadilly. The rather old fashioned setting harking back to a colonial past blended with all the trappings of a business conference in the 21st Century, seemed an appropriate setting for a discussion about how the deeply conservative legal professions will ...
From The Lawyer Editor
Speak up, ladies
Is it surprising that Alison Eddy, Irwin Mitchell’s highly rated clinical negligence head and newly anointed London managing partner, is the first woman to hold a regional managing partner role at the firm? Probably not.
But do you know what working as a lawyer actually involves? And are you sure of the steps you have to take to qualify as a solicitor or barrister?