Education & Training

Articles

28 Jul 2015

Law Society replaces SRA as signatory for trainee recruitment code

Voluntary code allows firms to compete for candidates on a level playing field, says Jonathan Smithers

28 Jul 2015

A change in direction

Five entrepreneurs have navigated new waters and career opportunities available outside of traditional practice. They discuss how to survive in a volatile, oversaturated, and sometimes ruthless industry

24 Jul 2015

Summertime tea making

Summer is here and, like many firms, we have been hosting work experience and vacation scheme students for the past few weeks.

21 Jul 2015

Newly qualifieds flying the nest

Natasza Slater considers the significance of firms' trainee retention rates and whether it is worth looking outside your current firm for a newly qualified role

16 Jul 2015

Fears that vocational training could produce unethical and underqualified lawyers

Law Society warns against training without the training contract

14 Jul 2015

'Walls of Jericho have fallen': New CILEx president enters with a bang, and a message

Access to justice and the future of legal training is top of the agenda for David Edwards

7 Jul 2015

Training in ethics needs to come sooner rather than later

Joanne Urston welcomes the inclusion of ethics in the SRA's competence statement, saying lawyers need to develop a sense of professionalism

7 Jul 2015

Leaving the law

Laura Clenshaw discusses lawyers' exodus from the profession