Author: Aishah Hussain
Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life
Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist
Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts
Kent University launches coronavirus LLM
New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response
A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme
Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online
Herbert Smith Freehills cancels 2020 summer vacation schemes
Exclusive: Candidates instead being invited to interview for TCs, with those successful offered place on virtual scheme
How COVID-19 will impact law students
ULaw pro-vice chancellor Peter Crisp provides a big picture overview and draws parallels between the 2008 financial and coronavirus crises
Slaughters, Bakers, Bird & Bird, Skadden and Debevoise move to virtual vacation schemes
New online offerings to mirror in-office experience but will be shorter than originally planned
Legal workers Zoom meeting interrupted by naked colleague
They'd been chatting about civil procedure when 'Ben' appeared starkers on screen
Deloitte scraps summer legal internships — offers interns £500 instead
Big Four player to run voluntary four-week virtual mentorship programme, as more law firms cancel vacation schemes in view of COVID-19
How tech is revolutionising the way law students learn
BARBRI’s Professor Samuel Farkas on what we can glean from the global training provider’s US model and how it will shape its SQE plans
Keele University law lecturer channels inner Eminem in criminal law rap
'Intention! It gives me tension! Too many cases to mention!' ?
Legal Twitter reacts after ‘white van man’ questions Keir Starmer’s ‘working class’ roots
Posts pic of barrister and Labour leader wearing traditional legal get-up
How to make it as an international commercial lawyer
Three White & Case solicitors based in London, Paris and New York, share insights from their career journeys
Nottingham Law School appoints new executive dean ahead of SQE prep course launch
Jenny Chapman assumes top role
Law course provider in hot water over ‘misleading’ ads
Claimed to be '#1 QLTS provider'
The SQE is just one part of a much bigger story
King’s College London’s Chris Howard shares his vision for the future of legal education
Freshfields and Taylor Wessing summer vacation schemes will go ahead — online
City law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption
Canterbury University law student urges private landlords to waive final rent fees
Some students expected to pay upwards of £2,000 for rooms no longer in use during COVID-19 lockdown
How technology can help trainees in the new SQE world
The College of Legal Practice chief, Giles Proctor, sketches out a vision for the new super-exam that draws on the college’s strength in tech-based online learning
Shearman & Sterling lawyers offered six month sabbaticals for 30% pay
As Reed Smith introduces unpaid leave scheme
SRA: Trainees can qualify before completing Professional Skills Course
But must finish all modules within one year of being admitted