Tag: COVID-19

Cambridge University moves law lectures online until summer 2021

COVID-19: Prestigious institution first to set out measures for full academic year

May 20 2020 10:18am

How the UK’s first teaching law firm will prepare students for the SQE

Nottingham Law School’s Executive Dean Jenny Chapman on the role of clinical legal training in a super-exam world

May 19 2020 1:45pm

Manchester University confirms all law lectures from next term will be delivered online

Social distancing measures may remain in place for some time meaning traditional fresher experience could look very different

May 18 2020 11:13am
Mental health

Not being allowed to work from home among top COVID-19 concerns to lawyer-wellbeing helpline

LawCare stats released to mark start of Mental Health Awareness Week

May 18 2020 10:31am

Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online

As Eversheds explores similar option

May 18 2020 9:25am

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

An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts

They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures

May 15 2020 9:48am

COVID-19: Meet the Queen Mary law student working on the frontline

Megan Evers puts healthcare experience to good use during pandemic

May 14 2020 11:33am

Over 60% of legal staff want to work from home post-lockdown

Not having to commute top reason for ditching the office

May 14 2020 8:58am

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

May 13 2020 2:19pm

Taylor Wessing to cut trainee pay and hours by 8%

International player set to introduce flexi-working scheme in response to pandemic

May 13 2020 12:11pm

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

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

May 12 2020 2:54pm

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

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?

May 7 2020 12:51pm