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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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Dewey attempts to rehouse trainees in face of uncertain future
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Jones Day hikes trainee pay to £41,000
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College of Law makes Singapore move
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QMUL launches insurance law course to stay apace with legal market
Features & Analysis
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.
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
Face off
Law firms are jumping on the social media bandwagon but, as the Lawyer 2B Big Student Survey reveals, students aren’t too happy about the encroachment on their personal space.
Jumping the cash barrier
How do you pay your way through legal training if you’re unwise enough not to have fabulously wealthy parents? Lawyer 2B reports on the options
Pond life
Pond life Fancy working for a US firm in London, or even relocating across the Atlantic? Jonathan Ames investigatesthe benefits of signing up to a US-UK law programme
Bang goes the law degree
With universities focusing on employment statistics, is it the end of the law degree as we know it?
Class half full
As student costs rise, part-time law courses are seeing a boom. But is the profession ready to shake off its bias and welcome the new route?
Heavy medal
As if legal training isn’t tough enough, some aspiring lawyers complicate their lives by simultaneously pursuing Olympic glory. By Laura Manning
Lawyer 2B Big Student Survey: the results
E-learning, shorter routes to qualification and massive debt are the hot issues thrown up by our exclusive poll
Screen test
Virtual learning is making inroads into legal education, with students taking to it more readily than some tutors, reports Jonathan Ames
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?