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

May 15 2020 11:38am

Lawyers are ‘biggest threat to reopening the economy’, claims financial journalist

Prepare for tide of litigation post-lockdown Michael Lynn forecasts

May 13 2020 11:24am

Kent University launches coronavirus LLM

New masters in law and health focuses on pandemic response

May 13 2020 10:26am

A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme

Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online

May 13 2020 9:09am

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

May 12 2020 9:15am

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

May 11 2020 2:45pm

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

May 11 2020 9:31am

Legal workers Zoom meeting interrupted by naked colleague

They'd been chatting about civil procedure when 'Ben' appeared starkers on screen

May 7 2020 3:30pm

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

May 6 2020 11:24am

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

May 5 2020 1:00pm

Keele University law lecturer channels inner Eminem in criminal law rap

'Intention! It gives me tension! Too many cases to mention!' ?

May 5 2020 11:36am

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

May 4 2020 3:02pm

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

May 4 2020 1:24pm

Law course provider in hot water over ‘misleading’ ads

Claimed to be '#1 QLTS provider'

Apr 30 2020 12:45pm

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

Apr 29 2020 1:20pm

Freshfields and Taylor Wessing summer vacation schemes will go ahead — online

City law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption

Apr 29 2020 10:48am

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

Apr 29 2020 9:09am

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

Apr 27 2020 2:15pm

Shearman & Sterling lawyers offered six month sabbaticals for 30% pay

As Reed Smith introduces unpaid leave scheme

Apr 27 2020 11:51am

SRA: Trainees can qualify before completing Professional Skills Course

But must finish all modules within one year of being admitted

Apr 24 2020 11:02am