Tag: Solicitors Qualifying Exam

The opportunities for aspiring lawyers in the North

A panel of lawyers and legal education experts discuss the region’s thriving legal scene

Feb 24 2021 3:00pm

College of Legal Practice launches SQE route that is half the price of the LPC

Total cost with exam fees is just over £8,000

Feb 22 2021 9:20am

What to expect as the SQE roll-out date nears

The law firms and legal educators involved in making the new solicitor training regime a reality took centre stage at Legal Cheek’s The SQE Sessions

Feb 18 2021 3:15pm

How to make it as an international lawyer at a London law firm

Highflyers from Latham & Watkins, Skadden and Slaughter and May on how they made it to the top, alongside a legal education expert from BARBRI

Feb 15 2021 12:46pm

ULaw reveals SQE prep course fees

Prices range from £500 for a short SQE1 revision course to £16,500 for most comprehensive LLM

Feb 10 2021 8:24am

City Consortium to provide SQE ‘top-up courses’ for future trainees

Exclusive: Will cover legal tech and project management skills

Feb 9 2021 10:55am

Junior lawyer warns law firms against ‘misusing’ apprenticeship levy

JLD committee member James Kitching's comments come at the start of National Apprenticeship Week

Feb 8 2021 11:52am

Exclusive research: Law firms say the SQE alone will not be enough

Results of a survey undertaken by nearly 50 leading law firms reveal the new centralised route to qualification won’t cover enough ground and a more thorough course is needed

Jan 28 2021 1:30pm

Delivering high quality legal education at a time of change

ULaw's director of business development, Morette Jackson, reflects on the past year and her hopes for a people-focused approach to law and education in the year ahead

Jan 26 2021 2:16pm

Why students should take an SQE prep course

Nottingham Law School's Rachel Rowley and Professor Paula Moffatt discuss the importance of choosing a law school that will provide you with a rounded professional legal education

Jan 20 2021 2:39pm

Law schools welcome first SQE students as SRA ‘looks closely’ at online exam options in light of COVID

Regulator remains hopeful assessment will go ahead in November as planned

Jan 20 2021 11:45am

Flexi training contract specialist launches SQE scholarship for Black aspiring lawyers

Accutrainee's diversity initiative sees it team up with City outfits including CMS

Jan 19 2021 11:22am

How should non-law students prepare for the SQE?

BARBRI managing director, Sarah Hutchinson, explains how universities and law firms should advise aspiring lawyers from non-law backgrounds on their future qualification path

Jan 14 2021 10:30am

Speakers announced for The SQE Sessions

28 January virtual event marks super-exam launch year; speakers include key figures from law firms and legal education

Jan 13 2021 10:32am

Legal training provider reveals £2,890 SQE1 online prep course

Law Training Centre enters super-exam training market

Jan 5 2021 11:44am

First-ever SQE exam dates announced

SQE1 to take place on 8 and 11 November 2021, with SQE2 in April 2022

Dec 29 2020 9:31am

SQE examiner hit by ‘cheating’ outbreak

Kaplan acknowledges 'attempted' cheating on foreign lawyer exam it also runs

Dec 21 2020 12:30pm

Don’t just give SQE trainees ‘repetitive admin tasks’, regulator warns law firms

SRA seeks to protect rookies qualifying under new regime

Dec 11 2020 12:08pm
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What will the SQE mean for me?

Legal education experts from BARBRI, Flex Legal, Reed Smith and Squire Patton Boggs discuss the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and how it is expected to shake up legal training

Dec 10 2020 10:13am

The future of tech in legal education

Tracy Savage, BARBRI’s academic head of UK programmes, discusses how the provider is using tech within its new SQE prep course and the skills lawyers of the future need to succeed

Dec 7 2020 12:45pm