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SRA opts for £6.08 per hour for trainee minimum wage
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is scrapping its trainee minimum pay in favour of the main rate in the National Minimum Wage.
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NLS offers students the chance to qualify in India
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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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Freshfields confirms salary bands for new merit-based pay system
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Jones Day hikes trainee pay to £41,000
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Fresh hope for aspiring lawyers as training contracts boost by 500+
Features & Analysis
Step change
It’s promotion season for UK law firms, but what sort of training have the class of 2012 had to help them to partnership?
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
Young, qualified and out of work
While law firms still struggle in the downturn, newly qualified lawyers are suffering the knock-on effects.
Para-troopers
The Legal Services Act and the economic climate are forcing law firms to reconsider the way they use their resources, hiking the status of the much-maligned paralegal in the process.
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: Eversheds groundbreaking LPC
Leading law firm training partners and course providers fear that a lack of flexibility in the solicitors’ qualification regime is hampering the English legal profession’s competitiveness - and they are pressing regulators to reform the process.
Bang goes the law degree
With universities focusing on employment statistics, is it the end of the law degree as we know it?
It’s all academic
With three academics and only one lawyer on the panel, will the Legal Education and Training Review listen to the needs of private practice?
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?