Tag: Students

HSF confirms SQE maintenance grant of £17,000
Matches moves by Freshfields and Linklaters 💷

How to nail a summer vac scheme
Three future trainees give their top tips

Criminal law not an attractive long-term career, say 81% of junior lawyers
Low pay 👎 long hours 👎 poor work-life balance 👎

Happy birthday Donoghue v Stevenson!
Iconic snail in ginger beer judgment turns 90 today

A&O to help fund disadvantaged students through Queen’s University Belfast
Magic circle player to provide 45 bursaries

Hogan Lovells joins raft of firms upping LPC maintenance grants by 25%
Future rookies to receive £12,500 in financial support

BPP, King’s, Southbank and Westminster among law schools recognised for pro bono work
Efforts to advance access to justice praised at annual LawWorks ceremony

Sidley pledges £500,000 to build youth centre in North London
US firm to offer career guidance and work experience opportunities

12 TikToks law students will just get
Bring on the memes

City Consortium reveals future trainees will complete ‘mini-training seats’ with virtual law firm as part of SQE prep
New details emerge during LegalEdCon 2022

First class law grad ditches legal career to play Call of Duty professionally
Jade MacIntyre, 24, says she makes more streaming than lawyering

A fifth of law firms will require LPC grads to sit parts of the SQE
Future trainees to undergo further training but at firm's expense, Legal Cheek research reveals

SQE prep provider pledges to reduce law fair merch in new eco push
BARBRI joins elite City firms in signing up to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance

‘The legal industry is not a hierarchy with private practice at the top’
BARBRI managing director Lucie Allen explains SQE’s potential to widen access to the profession

Ropes & Gray launches social mobility work experience programme
Two lucky participants will go on to receive £20k scholarship, vac scheme place and long-term mentoring courtesy of US law firm

‘Picking an SQE prep course is a lot like dating — you’ve got to find the one you connect with’
ULaw director of business development, Morette Jackson, explains how the law school is helping firms and students grapple with the changing SQE regime

HSF junior lawyer makes Forbes power list for ‘alternative Old Boys network’
Sophie Pender recognised for social mobility efforts

Career-changing doctor: ‘Can I negotiate my training contract salary?’
I have years of experience and transferable skills

Midlands barristers launch £15k bar course scholarship for students with ‘strong’ regional links
Understood to be first of its kind

Why the SQE needs to be integrated into an academic programme so students reach their potential
City Law School associate dean Peter Hungerford-Welch explains the importance of skills and knowledge beyond the SQE curriculum