Author: Thomas Connelly
‘Omnishambles’: Law school bosses react to SQE exam fiasco
Mix of concern and anger
Exam chaos: Kaplan issues apology after 175 students wrongly told they’d failed SQE
Questions remain over whether blunder led to TC offer cancellations
Gowling ups office attendance to 60%
Previously 50%
Regulator dishes out £13,836 fine to drink-driving solicitor
New approach of linking sanction to salary
New fund aims to cover salaries of social welfare trainees
Support up to 20 rookie solicitors
A&O and HSF post spring trainee retention rates
77% and 97%
Huge disparity in LPC provider pass rates as SQE was introduced
Between 100% and 21%
A&O Shearman sets out City office plans
Merger gathers pace
Post Office scandal: SRA unlikely to expedite lawyer prosecutions
Likely wait until inquiry's conclusion
US firms dominate M&A work as deals slump to decade low
Tech suffers particularly badly
SRA fines law firm for failing to provide diversity data
First of its kind
SQE students voice frustration over erroneous exam slot cancellation email
Kaplan stresses assessments will go ahead as planned, apologises for confusion
SRA misses deadline for publishing SQE provider pass rates
Issues statement that leaves open possibility of it never happening
Super regulator probes events leading up to SRA’s closure of Axiom Ince
Important for public confidence, says LSB
Slaughters makes ‘reduced hours for reduced pay’ permanent option for lawyers
Follows succesful pilot