Applications are now open for the LawCareersNetLIVE careers conferences taking place later this year.

Norwich-based firm Leathes Prior is planning the first football-related alternative business structure (ABS).

A new skills and training initiative for the legal profession has made over 100 paralegal apprenticeships available across nine law firms in the Greater Manchester area.

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

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.

Over 1,000 small and medium-sized firms have gone under in the last 12 months, a recently published research paper has revealed.

The role of librarian ranked as the second most common ‘dream job’ among 14,000 people polled by YouGov, to the delight of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.

The chairperson of the Criminal Bar Association, Nigel Lithman QC, has voiced his opposition to the government’s Quality Assurance Standards for Advocacy scheme, as well as its plans to cut 30% of all legal aid fees.

City firms Nabarro and Simmons & Simmons have both won national recognition for the quality of their work experience and internship schemes at the National Council for Work Experience 2012 awards.

The Legal Aid Agency has been criticised for adding to funding problems which have created “advice deserts” around the UK by setting a maximum £35 case fee for immigration telephone advisers.

This year’s Future Legal Mind competition has been won by Amy Loughrey, an undergraduate student at the University of York, and Lukas Hamilton Eddy, a postgraduate student at City University, London.

US law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has launched an in-house pupillage scheme.

The Bar Standards Board has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Inns of Court to recognise the “vital” role played by the Inns for aspiring barristers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced that non-practising solicitors will need to pay a £20 charge to stay on the roll from next year. The change will affect around 60,000 non-practising solicitors who are already on the roll.

London South Bank University has released a manual on how to establish and manage a drop-in legal advice clinic.

The Legal Services Consumer Panel, the law watchdog, has claimed in its submission to the Legal Education and Training Review that legal training is failing because it is too generalised.

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

A legal research website which relies on crowdsourcing and user ratings for its content was launched last week.

For the second year in a row, The College of Law and the International Bar Association are offering scholarships towards fees for the full-time LLM in International Legal Practice, which runs at CoL's Moorgate and Manchester centres.