CityLawLIVE and NationalLawLIVE, LCN’s one-day student conferences for aspiring solicitors, have announced that they are jointly extending their deadline to Sunday 5 November. Giving applicants an additional week in which to submit will hopefully attract those students who may not have had the time to get their applications in for consideration.

Chartered legal executives will be able to set up their own firms in 2015 after legislation passed successfully through the House of Lords.

The University of Law and the University of Reading have formed a new partnership to provide postgraduate legal training courses.

An event aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, with the tag line "Now you're out, let us help you get in", is being held on 4 December 2012.

The most recent Queen’s Counsel appointments have been announced by the independent selection panel, as it confirms the strongest promotion round for three years.

Specialising in all aspects of family law relating to children, The Modern Family Law Company has been launched by solicitors Melissa Kelly and Deborah Baxter to cater for the “modern family”.

The government has announced a 5% budget increase for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and an extra £80 million for the Crown Prosecution Service, but lawyers see the increases as nowhere near sufficient to deal with problems in the justice system.

Barking and Dagenham Council has become the first council to take on solicitor apprentices in-house.

Applications for H M Hubbard International Law Scholarship awards ranging up to £28,000 are now open to postgraduate law students wanting to study in Canada, France or Spain over the 2019-20 academic year.

The King approved the appointment of 94 barristers and one solicitor as new King’s Counsel (KC) on Monday.

The National Accident Helpline has launched the Future Legal Mind Award 2016, an essay competition open to undergraduate law and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students. 

As Black Friday looms (and the proponents of Civilised Saturday attempt to provide an alternative), retailers will be hoping for some big spending, especially in light of news that sales on the UK high street in October were significantly down.

BPP Law School has announced the introduction of £84,000 worth of scholarships and pupillage support for its Bar Professional Training Course programmes taught at its London, Leeds and Manchester centres

The University of Law has been ranked as having the joint-highest levels of overall student satisfaction of all the higher education institutions in the country in the National Student Survey 2016.

The Legal Education Foundation has announced the appointment of two new governors, while confirming that its latest round of grants total over £500,000.

UCAS figures have revealed that as at the end of January, there had been a nearly 9% drop in the number of people applying for a university place.

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has confirmed that it will allow trainee solicitors from its London and Hong Kong offices to do an overseas secondment in Australia.

The University of Law has launched its newest scholarship, available to one student from a low-income household and known as the Baroness Sayeeda Warsi Set for Success scholarship.

International firm Ashurst has become the latest to launch a ‘new law’ graduate training scheme which enables candidates to pursue careers in new and emerging legal roles.

For the first time in history, the most senior judge in England and Wales will be a woman.