Education & Training

Articles

7 Mar 2017

Law firms working together: Solicitor apprenticeships

Jason Wainwright discusses the benefits of collaborating with other North East law firms on one of the UK's first solicitor apprenticeship schemes

7 Mar 2017

Sustainable legal education, just in time

With not-for-profit legal advice providers pressed to deliver efficiencies, one charity is driving a collaborative effort in pursuit of securing legal help where it is most needed. Matthew Smerdon, Legal Education Foundation CEO, talks exclusively to Matthew Rogers

28 Feb 2017

Looking to the future of clinical legal education

University advice clinics can stimulate new opportunities for law graduates and help increase access to justice, write Vicky Kemp and Graham Smith

16 Feb 2017

Why and how the SQE can work

The example of the qualified lawyers transfer scheme shows it is possible to create high-quality exams catering for large numbers of prospective solicitors, writes Eileen Fry

10 Feb 2017

Interventionist thinking

Pro bono is no substitute for legal aid, but it might be time to accept it's the only option out there, writes John van der Luit-Drummond

7 Feb 2017

Trainees must not be afraid to ask for help

Anyone who holds themselves out to be infallible is fallible for precisely that reason, writes Pippa Allsop

6 Feb 2017

Law students tackle 'advice black hole' in West Midlands

More than 500 local residents helped with employment disputes

3 Feb 2017

Justice First Fellows qualify as solicitors

Scheme a 'ray of light' following legal aid cuts