Tag: coronavirus
Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life
An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts
They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures
COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline
Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic
Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown
Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office
The challenges ahead for online courts
Hardwicke barrister Andy Creer discusses changes to the way advocacy is delivered during the COVID-19 crisis and the new skills future barristers will require
Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%
International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic
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
Why lawyers of the 2020s need to force themselves out their comfort zone
We sit down -- virtually, of course -- with LexisNexis’s Director Transformation, Kate Gaskell, ahead of her appearance at LegalEdCon on Thursday
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
Eversheds introduces scheme to vary lawyers’ hours and pay according to workflow
Doesn't apply to trainees
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
COVID-19: Could PPE shortages amount to corporate manslaughter?
A ‘herculean effort’ has been exerted to increase the availability of protective gear for frontline NHS staff -- but should more have been done sooner, and if so, who is accountable?
How to create well-rounded lawyers of the future
Jo-Anne Pugh discusses BPP University Law School’s unique approach to the SQE and how it will prepare students for the assessments -- and for practice
UK legal vacancies plunge 75% during pandemic
Job applications also tumble, new research reveals
Bar Council clarifies position on whether law centres are proper lawyers
Statement on coronavirus funding sparks commotion online
City Law School to tempt law firms with ‘salad bar SQE’
James Catchpole, Associate Dean and LPC Director, is thinking creatively about changes to solicitor and barrister training
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