Legal profession’s regulator will take a closer look at supply and demand…
Necessity is the mother of innovation…
An international phenomenon…
eBay, the ideal place for quietly divesting yourself of useless clutter after Christmas…
New tests reveal old stereotypes…
Thanks to Harry Potter, the world thinks most public school folk are magicians…
These might just help you stay out of trouble…
If the green card lottery and a law job in the US is what your after, things may soon become a little easier…
BPP University College of Professional Studies apparently – BPP has just been awarded ‘university college’ status…
Goodbye increased access to the professions…
Law firms – early adopters of technology…?
The telecoms giant has followed the likes of Rio Tinto and Microsoft…
A poor little Harvard law student poured out his angst for the Harvard Law Record on the basis that, despite his or her Harvard-ness, a BigLaw offer was not forthcoming…
BPP has received some unwanted attention recently. First came the news in September that BPP had requested volunteers to leave its Bar Vocational Course (BVC) and take up places next year with a £2,000 incentive. Then reports emerged that Apollo Global, the American company that bought BPP for £303m earlier this year, is under investigation in the US over alleged accounting irregularities. Whilst the latter issue has little to do with BPP itself, it being a UK registered …
Record numbers of students are starting law courses this year…
BPP fans can rejoice.
In March Simmons & Simmons brought forward plans to create the first dedicated legal MBA. The course is due to be taught at BPP College of Professional Studies’ new City branch which was officially launched this week.
BPP’s new City school will be running the bespoke MBA for future Simmons & Simmons trainee solicitors and a Masters in Law and Business for SJ Berwin trainees. The MBA course is expected to be more widely available in coming …
Kaplan is to introduce a BVC entry test despite the Office of Fair Trading questioning the Bar Standard Board’s plans to introduce an aptitude test for the course. The test will be conducted in February next year, with successful candidates going on to form the first-ever intake of Kaplan’s BVC the following September.
Although the OFT’s concerns over competition were a sticking point for the BSB, there is nothing to stop individual law schools introducing their own entry tests.
There’s someting about American law schools that just seems to have a little bit of extra cachet. Particularly if the one in question has Harvard before it. As if that wasn’t enough though, how about this from Yahoo:
Tom, 47, apparently arrived late to class and slipped into a seat in the back row where he listened to the lesson.
He joined in with anecdotes and jokes while his lawyer friend taught the excited pupils, and discussed legal issues surrounding being …
The lucrative legal education market has seen the law schools eager to sign exclsive course provision tie-ins with firms over the last 12 months or so. The College of Law just has signed three more firms up to its LPC programme including Ashurst, Harbottle & Lewis and Stevens & Bolton. The Ashurst contract is a three year deal which will see up to 60 trainees each year study the LPC at the college’s London Moorgate. The CoL will also …
Some lecturers here may claim to use the Socratic Method of teaching but when it comes to crunch few go to the same lengths as American law schools. Law schools in the States commonly use the teaching method to stimulate rational thinking and to illuminate ideas from their students. All jolly exciting. What we are drawing attention to is the embarrasing moment that everyone encounters at some point in their educational and professional career which is not knowing the …
