This year’s edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook is now available. This much-respected resource is the first place you should turn to for help and should be your guide as you search for the legal career that is right for you.

This year’s A-level results have heralded a record number of students securing places on degree courses.

The Bar is holding a webinar on 16 September 2015 between 1:00pm and 2:00pm as part of a consultation with the profession and other interested participants on the direction the Bar should take in terms of training would-be barristers.

More than 16,000 walkers joined The Solicitors’ Charity at the 19th annual London Legal Walk – including us!

Members of the Criminal Bar Association are due to vote on whether to replace the current fortnightly strikes with uninterrupted ones as of 5 September.  

Those bereaved and/or injured in the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market will receive free legal advice from a panel of law firms being put together by the Law Society, the pro bono charity LawWorks and the City of London Law Society. 

LawWorks is expanding its pro bono legal advice programme to help more small charities, community groups and social enterprises.

13-17 November was National Anti-Bullying Week 2023. It’s an annual event coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance charity, which aims to raise awareness of bullying among young people. The week emphasises prevention and effective responses to bullying.

The bodies representing solicitors, barristers and chartered legal executives have pledged to “achieve gender equality in the senior ranks” by getting firms and chambers to sign up to specific gender targets.

King’s College London has launched a new student-run legal advice centre. As the Law Gazette reports, the advice centre will be staffed by volunteer third-year law students, covering family issues under the supervision of solicitors at national firm Stowe Family Law.

A pupil barrister has won first prize in the Bar Council’s essay competition with a damning dissection of the legality of the UK government’s use of drones to kill people.

Solicitors representing young people in the youth courts are to receive specialist support from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to help them meet the needs of their young clients. 

The delegate fees from this year’s LawCareersNetLIVE conferences will be donated to two legal charities.

University students are playing an important role in providing free legal aid as law schools forecast a rise in demand for pro bono support, following unmet need and the ongoing impact of legal aid cuts.

Baker McKenzie and Travers Smith LLP have become the latest law firms to announce increases in pay for their newly qualified (NQ) lawyers. 

In this brand-new LCN podcast episode, LawCareers.Net’s Niamh Gray (they/them) teams up with leading lawyers Danni Davies (Latham & Watkins) and Michael Tushingham (Gowling WLG (UK) LLP) to discuss what it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in the legal industry. 

Several law firms are rewarding their staff with extra pay or holiday as a ‘thank you’ for their efforts during the pandemic.

Lightsource Renewable Energy has recently been granted SRA accreditation to take on trainees, joining a small group of companies in the United Kingdom that offer in-house training contracts.