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Picking up your bar tab
Picking up your bar tab is sure to ruin what otherwise was bound to be a great night.
Testing Positive: BVC aptitude test is a necessary obstacle
Allow me to begin, if you will, with a few home truths. Number one, no world can ever be a perfect world for all. Number two, in the right circumstance, money can buy you happiness.
Have you enough fuel for the journey?
When I was travelling along the long and winding road of pursuing a training contract I often thought of myself as a car.
BVC aptitude is an unnecessary obstacle
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has been continually toying with the idea of introducing an aptitude test for aspiring barristers wanting to secure a place on the Bar Vocational Course (BVC) since the publication of the Wood Report in 2008.
Britain's got talent
A hot topic at the moment is diversity, which appears to be winning not just Britain’s Got Talent 2009 but the Herbert Smith advocacy competition as well.
September - a squeaky start
If there was ever an appropriate time to feel like a rabbit in the headlights, then this is it.
Practice area focus: Public and Regulatory Law
Lawyers in the public and regulatory sector advise a wide variety of public bodies and commercial organisations on regulatory, disciplinary and public law matters.
CoL launches New York Bar programme
The College of Law (CoL) is making its first foray into the US legal market with radical plans to offer the New York Bar Exam to its Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students.
Editor's weekly: Knowledge is power
Although I returned home from work utterly exhausted yesterday I managed to squeeze out enough energy to have a heated discussion with my husband about the lack of quality careers advice on offer to students at state secondary schools.
BPP guarantees work placements to GDL students
BPP Law School is introducing a revolutionary new scheme to help fatten students’ CVs as competition for legal work experience continues to intensify.
Although I returned home from work utterly exhausted yesterday I managed to squeeze out enough energy to have a heated discussion with my husband about the lack of quality careers advice on offer to students at state secondary schools.