Tag: coronavirus

Shoosmiths first firm to cancel 2020 summer vacation scheme amid COVID-19 disruption
Exclusive: Candidates will still be considered for training contracts

COVID-19: Financial uncertainty and tech woes force chambers to delay pupillage interviews
But majority to go ahead as planned, says Bar Council

Exclusive: City law firms to cover vac schemers wasted expenses amid COVID-19 disruption
Large number of spring programmes put on hold

Virus latest: Regulator to relax LPC exam rules
Law schools can apply to run assessments online to avoid delays, SRA confirms

COVID-19: The toll on criminal justice
An already crumbling system finds itself in limbo

LPC exam delays will have ‘serious implications’ for training contract holders, junior lawyers warn
Junior Lawyers Division offers up alternatives including online exams and coursework

Vac scheme latest: White & Case, Latham, Mayer Brown and Sidley suspend spring programmes
London-based US law firms heed government advice

COVID-19: MoJ lists which lawyers are ‘key workers’
Their children can attend school or nursery from today

London commercial set reverses decision to cancel pupillage recruitment round
Henderson Chambers says it will now defer interviews until summer following discussions with Bar Council

Virus pandemic: Further City law firms postpone spring vacation schemes
Norton Rose Fulbright, Addleshaw Goddard, Mishcon de Reya and HFW

Vlogging junior lawyers react to virus pandemic
Eve Cornwell shoots home office set-up while Chrissie Wolfe shares daily video 'diary' series

Virus pandemic: Baker McKenzie and Herbert Smith Freehills postpone spring vacation schemes
Along with Charles Russell Speechlys and Penningtons Manches Cooper

Wealthy partners work from home while lowest paid staff are forced into the office, legal union claims
Legal Sector Workers United brands pandemic response a 'classist allocation of risk'

Don’t let students sit exams at home, SRA tells law schools
Regulator says supervised assessments must be maintained

Criminal barristers ask for early billing to ease potential cashflow crises
Coronavirus: Criminal Bar Association wants barristers to be paid before trials are over
Regulator postpones centralised BPTC exams
Decision follows new government guidance to combat spread of COVID-19

Slaughter and May postpones spring vacation scheme amid virus pandemic
As magic circlers Freshfields and A&O postpone first-year spring schemes

BPP postpones LPC exam following new government COVID-19 advice
Tomorrow's assessment due to take place at London's ExCeL centre will now be re-scheduled

ULaw and City Law School to suspend face-to-face teaching in response to coronavirus
Both will switch online lectures from 23 March

Shearman & Sterling becomes first firm to postpone spring vacation scheme in wake of coronavirus pandemic
Follows Linklaters decision to suspend insight scheme

Coronavirus: Linklaters postpones insight scheme as Taylor Wessing closes London office after employee tests positive
Host of City players trial remote working capabilities in wake of pandemic