Latest News
Ex-CoL student turns to Supreme Court
A former College of Law (CoL) student has asked the Supreme Court to review his disability discrimination battle with the CoL over Legal Practice Course (LPC) examination provisions.
Profession throws a lifeline to trainees at doomed Dewey
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s 2012 trainee intake is being forced to start over, while the legal market rallies to offer refuge to the collapsing firm’s trainees.
Hogan Lovells boosts NQ pay to £61,500
Hogan Lovells is upping newly qualified (NQ) salary bands by less than 1 per cent, boosting their pay packages by £500.
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JLD slams SRA decision to drop trainee solicitor minimum pay
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SRA opts for £6.08 per hour for trainee solicitor minimum wage
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Northumbria offers students the chance to qualify in India
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LAC announces apprenticeships for legal services
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Firm reveals 500 to 1 chance of landing a training contract
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Farrer & Co announces 100 per cent NQ retention
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Dewey attempts to rehouse trainees in face of uncertain future
Features & Analysis
It's all academic
Professional regulators and academics both love a meaty research project, and when the two combine forces it is time to sit back and watch the layers of complexity pile up like dung at a livestock show.
Latecomers welcome at L2B event
Our Not Too Late for Law event helped mature applicants find the confidence and practical advice they will need to enter the profession
Bar stall
The disparity between the number of students completing the BPTC and the pupillage places on offer means many would-be barristers are in career limbo. Christian Metcalfe reports
Analysis: Legal market braced for onslaught of alternative business structures
Alternative business structures (ABSs) are a new form of practice developed through the Legal Services Act (LSA).
Editor's weekly: Let them eat cake
Whether or not Marie Antoinette, as an example of her obliviousness to the people, ever uttered these words is debatable but the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) yesterday to scrap the trainee minimum salary in favour of the main rate in the National Minimum Wage is clear for all to see - particularly for those who could soon be mounting the barricades in opposition.
How to end up in-house?
I would really like to end up as an in-house lawyer at a tech firm, does it matter where and in to what area I qualify?
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
SRA gives helpful reminder to students - enrol and pay £80
In view of the feelings that are running quite high [understatement alert] over the SRA’s minimum wage decision I am a bit nervous about publicising the following reminder from the Solicitors Regulation Authority telling potential LPC students that they need to hurry up and ...
From The Lawyer Editor
Lost in translation
The first hint came when Slaughter and May’s US friend Davis Polk raided Freshfields to set up an English-law capital markets practice in London.
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?