Top City firms Linklaters, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Mills & Reeve have all taken advisory roles in the leading Chinese food company Bright Food's acquisition of a 60% stake in the famous breakfast cereal brand, Weetabix.

First reported in Legal Futures, the SRA has now formally announced that it will not be ready to start regulating alternative business structures (ABS) in early October because of parliamentary delays.

Hello, my name is Ayo Abraham, and I’m a trainee solicitor at southgate solicitors. I am currently six months into my training contract and specialise in family law.

The College of Law has been granted full university status and will now be rebranded as the University of Law.

The number of students enrolling on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) has unexpectedly risen by 14% after a downward trend emerged over the last four years. 

Crime barristers will take action on their own against unreasonable hours and overnight working if the judiciary fails to heed their concerns, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association has warned.

Rape victims are turning to the civil courts for prosecutions.

LLM students at Queen Mary University of London are to take a course in e-disclosure, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom.

BPP law school, in partnership with specialist bank Investec, has extended the features of its 'law loan' – a special bank loan that is only available to BPP students.

The College of Legal Practice (the College) has been accepted onto the national Apprenticeship Provider and Assessment Register, meaning organisations can now use the College to train their graduate solicitor apprentices. 

Shoosmiths has announced the winners of its law fair video competition, who have won a place on the firm's summer vacation placement scheme.

The Junior Lawyers Division is seeking opinion and comment from students on their experiences related to work experience - how much of it people have done, was it useful, and was it a positive or negative experience.

What new legislation has been implemented recently to address the issues with liability of fire defects? 

What is APP fraud and how does it affect a law firm’s clients?

Clíodhna Kelleher shares her experiences of working as a competition lawyer at Monckton Chambers, from the freedom it affords to the camaraderie of chambers. Plus, she details her range of work experience before qualifying as a barrister, including being a debate coach, a university tutor, a paralegal and even working for a non-governmental organisation. 

The relevance of the technology used within law firms is heightened by the current era of rapid digital transformation and the effects of covid-19.

BPP Law School in Leeds has been nominated in two categories in the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards, due to be held on 11 June 2014.

Norton Rose Fulbright has confirmed a 92% retention rate for its trainee solicitors qualifying in May.

The SRA's consultation regarding its proposed changes to the way it regulates the profession has caused the Law Society to comment that the proposals combine "helpful proposals with changes which are concerning for solicitors and consumers".

DWF has announced its intention to buy Manchester firm Cobbetts, which revealed earlier in the week that it had filed for administration, and was looking to sell the business "due to difficult trading conditions in the professional services sector". KPMG have been named as administrators.