Tag: Students

Magna Carta: the rap battle

BBC children’s telly sketch team pump up the volume over ancient rights

Mar 6 2015 3:01pm

Trainee retention latest: Baker & McKenzie keeps 82% while Nabarro hits 100%

Two more corporate firms find homes for over 80% of their newly-qualifying young

Mar 6 2015 12:28pm

The Judge Rules: Training contracts and pupillages should be scrapped

If yet another review of legal education must be launched -- let’s hope regulators have the guts to propose something radical and meaningful

Mar 6 2015 9:08am

Fears of trainee recruitment free-for-all as solicitor watchdog threatens to bin code of practice

Exclusive: Law firms could be allowed to offer training contracts to students before they start uni

Mar 4 2015 3:06pm

Wragge & Co’s idea of ‘fun and games’ leaves a lot to be desired

The good folk over at Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co's recruitment department are a laugh a minute

Mar 3 2015 4:06pm

Disabled student takes on law school over dodgy swipe-card access to library

GDL student's persistence sees City University comply with disability legislation

Mar 3 2015 9:30am

UCL prof named ‘Law Teacher of the Year’

Jane Holder beats off competition from, among others, universities of Leeds and Bangor to scoop random popular award

Mar 2 2015 9:15am

Lord Justice Leveson to brush up on Scots law as he heads north with Judge Rinder

The nation's favourite TV judges together at last

Feb 27 2015 9:10am

Government names and shames law firm for failing to pay paralegal the minimum wage

But Rowe Sparkes Solicitors reckons the low pay was legit

Feb 26 2015 6:21pm

Social welfare training contract scheme to run every year

Charity’s Justice First Fellowship programme will create eight TCs annually

Feb 25 2015 4:53pm

GDL student lit bonfire on roof of flat then tried to put out flames with ‘bottles of urine’

Lawyer dream may be over as student pleads guilty to arson

Feb 25 2015 10:26am

Ex-senior partner of law summit sponsor Allen & Overy admits regret that ticket price ruled out students

Over 50s discuss the future of law without a young person in sight

Feb 25 2015 9:17am

Norton Rose Fulbright keeps 21 out of 26 new qualifiers

Global giant retains 81% of its London trainees

Feb 24 2015 4:47pm

Comedians stand up for legal aid at Not The Global Law Summit

Stars including Stewart Lee, Stephen K Amos and Sara Pascoe put on gig in protest against the cuts

Feb 24 2015 2:10pm

11 law-related Instagram accounts that are worth a follow

As lawyers wake up to the mobile photo-sharing network, we bring you the best legally-themed accounts

Feb 24 2015 10:02am

The bar ‘will die out’ and solicitors be replaced by paralegals, predicts top criminal barrister at Global Law Summit

As protests rage in Westminster, Tony Cross QC forecasts the end of the legal profession as we know it

Feb 23 2015 5:29pm

Slaughter and May is targeting Ivy League law students to fill London positions

Magic circle giant resurrects policy of attending top US recruitment fairs

Feb 23 2015 1:00pm

The BPTC could be chopped up into lots of little courses

Bar regulator pledges to "build flexibility" into Bar Professional Training Course in bid to reduce cost

Feb 23 2015 12:15pm

Judge refuses to let law student observe bail hearing because he was dressed too scruffily

Wannabe lawyer booted out of immigration hearing in London's Taylor House

Feb 23 2015 11:14am