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What impact will the credit crunch have on commercial property?

Real estate internships at six leading law firms are now underway, providing graduates with valuable commercial property experience.

The News of the World saga continues, with an announcement that Lord Justice Leveson will conduct the hacking inquiry in the Royal Courts of Justice.

More reliable than Boris Johnson’s Brexit timetable, our weekly round-up of the commercial news stories you need to know about can help you to improve your commercial awareness and keep up to date with the business world. 

A report by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has argued that the UK legal market should address its over-capacity by cutting 5% of solicitor jobs.

You may have been reading headlines like “sewage dumping leaves fish full of cocaine”, which sounds more akin to an Alan Partridge radio headline than serious news. However, this is in fact from an official marine expert, following the recent sewage dumping over the last few weeks. 

Herbert Smith Freehills and Travers Smith have joined Discuss, a social mobility programme run by the diversity specialists, Rare Recruitment.

Specialist diversity recruitment company Rare's Articles programme has won the Race for Opportunity Future Workforce Award 2013, facing down stiff competition from big-name organisations such as Sky and Microsoft.

Rare, founded in 2005 by Raphael Mokades, connects exceptional people from underrepresented backgrounds with careers in top organisations and provides cutting-edge data services that help clients make better hiring decisions.

Magic circle giant Allen & Overy has joined top-end firms Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith and Travers Smith in signing up to a specialist agency which actively recruits high-achieving African Caribbean graduates.

This LCN Feature outlines some practical and emotional steps law firms can take to support Muslim employees during this period.

What’s debt refinancing and why do businesses use it?

It’s A-level results day and as thousands of students across the country find out where they are going to study at university, we urge all incoming law students to head to our first-year zone for more information on what to do at this stage. Meanwhile, we’ve summarised a collection of interesting and relevant commercial news stories below.

Disparity in the justice system between outcomes for defendants who are BAME and defendants who are white is being compounded by a lack of data needed to analyse the problem, The Centre for Justice Foundation has reported. 

We spoke to Rachel Hii, a future trainee who’s taken and passed the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) having completed a preparation course with The University of Law. Find out how Rachel found the SQE prep, the assessments themselves and Rachel's top tips for you!

Following last year’s Race at the Bar report, the Bar Council has published an interim report to outline the actions being taken to address race inequality across the Bar. 

What legal dilemmas are posed by RAAC and 'crumbling' school roofs?