Two new apprenticeships schemes have launched this week, further cementing the importance of this new route into the legal profession.

A lack of understanding of the benefits of apprenticeships is limiting take up among employers, according to research by Skills for Justice.

Apprenticeships are also perfect for people who aren’t keen on more full-time study after finishing their A levels and want to kickstart their careers. 

Paralegal work’s reputation for being a dead end to career advancement may soon be put to bed, as plans to implement formal qualifications and training opportunities for an advanced paralegal apprenticeship accelerate.

The Bar Standards Board has announced that aspiring barristers wishing to take the Bar Professional Training Course will now have to pass an exam – the Bar Course Aptitude Test.

With falling oil prices and the high costs of safety and transportation, why is Shell still set on drilling in the Arctic?

It’s a doctors’ duty to put public safety at the forefront of their minds, protecting not only their own patients, but anyone who could reasonably be affected. However, outside of the hospital and medical practice, this duty becomes slightly cloudier.

Since my previous LCN Blog on the current UK gas crisis, six British energy suppliers have been identified being at the maximum risk of closure.

Can I access the government’s postgraduate student loan for the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) preparation courses?

Are law firms still recruiting this year given the coronavirus pandemic? Can I still apply for a training contract this summer?

The popularity of smart home devices such as Amazon’s Echo (Alexa) has seen a rise in their presence within our homes. But with smart home assistant devices planted throughout our rooms, are our conversations really as private as we believe?

With technology enabling ever new ways to break contract law, what can be done to ensure that the courts maintain effective means of serving claims against accused parties?

Argent Chambers has merged with Goldsmith Chambers as of yesterday (6 May).

US firm Armstrong Teasdale has acquired London-based Kerman & Co in its first overseas venture. The move by the top 200 US firm adds 50 lawyers to its roster, bringing its headcount to roughly 340 fee earners and 300 support staff. 

The art of asking good questions is an essential part of any law student's skill set. As a student, you want to make sure you ask insightful questions in class, to delve deeper into the material and make sure you understand its every nook and cranny. As a prospective solicitor or trainee, you want to ask standout questions during a job interview or firm open day to showcase your interest in the firm. And, as a qualified solicitor, you want to know the right questions to ask your client to elicit the relevant responses from them in relation to a particular case.

Trained on vast datasets, Generative Artificial Intelligence models can produce impressively sophisticated outputs - some of which are perhaps indistinguishable from human-created works. However, these new tools raise significant legal quandaries, particularly for copyright law.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an often-referred to, often-quoted, but often-misunderstood topic that without a doubt has the potential to change every aspect of our lives. As I guarantee all of you reading will have heard about the basics of AI, I won’t go into detail explaining what exactly it is and is not; however, I will say that AI is an incredibly broad and multifarious concept, which takes many different forms. This blog will focus on the impact that AI will have specifically on law firms, both positive and negative, and which aspects of AI law firms are most interested in.

How will current developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) affect lawyers?