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.

The presence of multiple-choice questions (MCQ) in the new Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) will make the assessment more rigorous than critics think, according to the person in charge of designing the SQE framework.

The London Borough of Hillingdon has appointed four school leavers as legal assistant apprentices in its legal services department.

Norton Rose Fulbright has announced its partnership with the Financial and Legal Skills Partnership through the 'Get In Get On' initiative.

The Law Teacher of the Year Award 2011 has gone to University of Westminster professor of law and theory Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has launched a consultation on a new standardised system for assessing trainees, under which all those wishing to qualify as a solicitor would have to sit the same professional exam. 

The Law Society invites people to join the legal profession march at this year's Pride London parade on Saturday 2 July.

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.

Corporate and private client firm Withy King, headquartered in Bath, is set to merge with London firm Royds.

Reed Smith has agreed to become the first law firm to place all of its work experience opportunities on www.GoThinkBig.co.uk, an initiative which aims to make thousands of diverse work experience opportunities available to anyone with access to the Internet.

According to reports in The Lawyer, a new Legal Services Board (LSB) proposal to monitor social mobility in the legal profession will see lawyers asked a range of questions about their socio-economic background, religion, disability and caring responsibilities.

Applications are now open for the LawCareersNetLIVE careers conferences taking place in November and December later this year across three locations in the UK.

Herbert Smith Freehills and The Times are running their annual student advocacy competition, with submissions due by 22 July 2013.

More than 80% of lawyers consider flexible working to be more important than salaries when job hunting, according to a recent report. 

Leading civil liberties and legal aid firm Hodge Jones & Allen hosted Year 12 Students for a discussion about careers in the access-to-justice side of the legal profession earlier this month. 

The College of Law's Future Lawyers Network is running a series of podcasts, entitled Brief Chats, featuring "top legal professionals" and offering tips and advice on how to get ahead in the world of law.

Bar chairman Alistair MacDonald QC has said that there should be a complete ban on all fees paid by barristers to instructing solicitors to prevent attempts to disguise referral fees as administration fees.