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Training contracts fall 10% to lowest level since 1999, Law Society reports
The number of training contracts offered at law firms in England and Wales fell 10% in 2011-12 to the lowest level since 1999, according to new research by the Law Society. The society's annual report shows that the number of training contracts reg...
21 May 2013 | 16:59
Hong Kong aims to simplify local qualification system amid fierce competition for places
The Law Society of Hong Kong is considering an overhaul of the exam system for graduates and foreign lawyers seeking to become locally qualified, with a consultation on the subject set to be issued this month. The plans for reform, which were firs...
10 May 2013 | 00:00 | 
Linklaters hikes trainee maintenance grants by up to 40%
Linklaters is raising the maintenance grants it pays its future trainees by up to 40% from this year, as part of a push to attract a more diverse range of students. Prospective trainees sponsored by the magic circle firm currently receive a grant o...
13 Mar 2013 | 18:35 |
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BSB confirms introduction of mandatory £150 Bar aptitude test
All aspiring barristers will have to pass a £150 aptitude test from April this year, with the Bar Standards Board (BSB) yesterday (20 February) confirming its formal introduction following a lengthy consultation. The Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) w...
21 Feb 2013 | 11:49 |
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Shake-up of legal education faces new delay as review report is pushed back
The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the long-awaited investigation into standards of legal education in the UK, has been further delayed, with the research team's report now not expected to be released before this May. The review, bille...
19 Feb 2013 | 11:50 |
Freshfields forges diversity scholarship with Stephen Lawrence charity
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is partnering with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust (SLCT) to launch a scholarship aimed at improving access to the legal profession for young male students from black and ethnic minority backgrounds.
11 Feb 2013 | 11:29 |
Nabarro cuts trainee places by 30% as firm confirms spring retention
Nabarro has cut back the number of trainee vacancies if offers by almost 30%, as the firm becomes one of the first of the UK top 50 to confirm its retention figures for this spring's qualifying intake. The firm has slimmed down the number of availa...
09 Jan 2013 | 08:57 |
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BPP joins Government initiative to create non-uni route to lawyer career
BPP Law School is set to develop an apprenticeship scheme that will allow school leavers to become lawyers without the need for a university degree. Conservative MP Matthew Hancock, the minister for skills, last week announced government plans to m...
02 Jan 2013 | 11:33 |
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Stephenson Harwood and BPP sign exclusive training deal with new international element
Stephenson Harwood has signed an exclusive deal with BPP Law School to provide the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) for its London trainees, in an agreement which marks the firm's first exclusive deal with an LPC and GDL p...
10 Dec 2012 | 00:00 |
Clifford Chance cuts back annual trainee intake from 120 to 100
Clifford Chance (CC) has cut back the number of trainees it takes on in London by almost one fifth, with an announcement on the firm's latest newly qualified (NQ) intake pushed back to January next year. The magic circle firm has confirmed that it ...
04 Dec 2012 | 17:42 |
College of Law confirms uni status in rebrand as 'The University of Law'
The College of Law has rebranded as the University of Law, after being granted university status. The college, which has held degree-awarding powers since 2006, says the award represents a "culmination of many years of growth, innovation and recogn...
22 Nov 2012 | 16:16 |
How do you shortlist the right law firm to apply for?
You've collected all the student guides; you have spoken to representatives at law fairs; you've collected countless branded pens. But what do you actually do with all this information and how do you choose which firms to apply to?
20 Nov 2012 | 17:09 |
Kings College London unveils £20m law scholarship programme
The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London has launched the largest ever scholarship programme for law in the UK and Europe, with a £20m gift from the school's benefactor, Hong Kong businessman Dickson Poon. Eighty law scholarships wi...
15 Nov 2012 | 00:27 |
New-style training company Accutrainee teams up with College of Law for PSC
The College of Law has signed up to become the preferred provider of the Professional Skills Course (PSC) for Accutrainee, a legal training company which seconds trainees to law firms. Accutrainee, which was launched last year, offers training cont...
16 Oct 2012 | 12:43 |
College of Law launches combined LPC and LLM course
The College of Law is to offer a new combined Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Master of Laws (LLM) course from 2013, replacing its existing LPC qualification with an LLM LPC. In the first qualification of its kind, students will be able to speciali...
03 Oct 2012 | 10:35 |
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