Education & Training

Articles

21 May 2012

Consumer panel attacks 'GP-style' training of lawyers

The legal services consumer panel has strongly attacked the GP-style training of lawyers in its response to the call for evidence by the LETR.

18 May 2012

Anger as SRA scraps trainee minimum salary

Firms to pay minimum wage from August 2014

18 May 2012

Decision to scrap trainee minimum wage was done with obscene haste

Profession not given the time to consider the proposal and provide meaningful response, says Martin Varley

23 Apr 2012

College of Law bought by Montagu Private Equity

£200m sale proceeds to fund legal education charity

16 Apr 2012

Abolishing minimum salary 'may trigger legal challenge'

Law Society says SRA 'misguided' in launching proposals in advance of LETR

26 Mar 2012

Trainees could earn £2.60 an hour, JLD says

The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) of the Law Society has said that trainee solicitors could end up earning as little as £2.60 an hour under the SRA's plans to scrap the minimum wage.

26 Mar 2012

We must end the scandalous treatment of young lawyers

The legal profession is notorious for its lack of a support system – and it is would-be lawyers who are bearing the brunt, says Felix

5 Mar 2012

QASA, the levelling scheme

Another year, another disappointment for solicitor advocates as none of the applicants for silk made the grade.