Tag: research
Law students among least hardworking of all students
Medicine, dentistry, architecture and even arts students have it harder, research suggests
Academics to tackle research desert with first of its kind study on disabled lawyers
What barriers do these lawyers face and how do they overcome them?
Law students work less hard than arts, education and biology students
This can't be correct, can it?
One third of law students regret their degree choice
And double that think the course is not good value for money
There are now 140,000 practising solicitors in England and Wales
Highest figure ever, yet training contracts at top City firms fall
Senior barrister told BPTC student ‘I don’t trust fags like you’, shocking new LGBT+ research reveals
Homophobia appears to be worse at the bar than it is across other workplaces
Research: Lawyers take just 36 minutes for their lunch
And close to half rarely leave the office
City law thriving as regional firms struggle, report reveals
92% of Square Mile outfits grew last year, with lawyer numbers up 7.5%
New law graduates earn less money than social studies, education and business studies graduates
£20,000 a year average makes it one of lowest salaries
There’s less office politics in law than any other industry, new research finds
Nearly a third of survey respondents thought engaging in water cooler tittle-tattle will help further their careers
Research: Law degrees are more reliant on EU funding than languages degrees
University law faculties receive millions of pounds a year from Europe -- will Brexit change this?
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions
A third of these were for drink driving
Law students are more likely to be psychopaths than their psychology-studying peers — but economics and business students are the ‘darkest’
The study looked at Machiavellianism and narcissism too
Research: Over 90% of young lawyers are suffering from work-related stress
Almost half blame law firm partners
Research: Judges feel less valued by the public, the media and the profession than they did two years ago
And the majority have concerns about their personal security
Research: 57% of people admit they are ‘not very familiar’ with the Supreme Court
7% haven’t heard of it at all, but court still confident its outreach is improving
Research: Law students among the most likely to be state school educated
Rich kid stereotype unfounded?
Research: A quarter of law students would be willing to falsify time sheets
Ethical compass of future lawyers called into question
Research: England and Wales has one of the most male-dominated judiciaries in Europe
But our Supreme Court judges are among the best paid
ULaw tops National Student Survey seeing off Oxbridge and Russell Group competition
Joint winner with University of Buckingham