Yes, there’s even a guide for this…
Try not to react like this…
Some Canadian law students have thrown together a little film about life at law school. Warning: you may find some themes familiar…
The boss of the magic circle has been doing some thinking and came up with this nifty proposition…
Negative headlines and mass redundancies don’t make for the best recruiting sergeants…
Are you a perpetual planner? Is your life mapped out from your early 20’s until retirement…?
Not a huge concern if your future firm is picking up the bill but for individuals the cost can vary considerably…
These are the top 20 films every law student should see…
Hammonds summer schemers will face an additional hurdle when they seek a training contract (if they’re not put off by the extended trainee deferrals)…
It’s cheaper, its popular and it doesn’t look good for junior associates or current law students in the UK or the US.
Subtle it’s not.
If there were any wannabee lawyers or junior lawyers that were labouring under the illusion that 2010 was going to a cracker compared to the turmoil of 2008 and 09, bear this in mind.
Arbitrary you say?
Any internationally (U.S.) produced table will look like this too. For the UK equivalent just substitute Yale and Harvard for Oxford and Cambridge.
Ranking made easy.
From Courtoons
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 …
Anyone complaining about how difficult it is to get a training contract might feel a little humbled by this story. Yesterday the Mail reported that Matt King, 22, succeeded in winning a training contract against considerable odds after he was permanently paralysed playing rugby. The accident happened when he was 17, in the opening minute of his first professional game for the London Broncos Academy team.
Five years on, Matt has graduated from Hertfordshire University with a first-class law degree …
Bringing some added beauty to the bar – the underdog beautician who kicked some legal behinds…
When Georgina Blackwell, a 23 year old Essex beautician saw off a team of barristers in court, she might just have kickstarted a promising legal career for herself. Lined up against a legal team representing Bellway Homes, she managed to overturn a previous High Court judgment and in the process win her mother £75,000 compensation.
And on the back of that she has won a …
Are all the lawyer hopefuls kidding themselves? In the wider economy, talk of paradigm shifts and a ‘new normal ‘ is rife (even if certain elements of the finance sector are in denial). Famed investor Jim Rogers suggested we all went back to learning how to drive tractors and grow things in the UK. And as we struggle to crawl out of recession, record numbers of young hopefuls are signing up to law degrees and law school courses.
In the …
Despite recent attempts by supervisory bodies to curb enthusiasm for the legal profession, UCAS reports record numbers of students starting law courses this year. A total of 18,394 students have signed up to enjoy the rigours of legal academia; that’s an increase of 1.2% on last year which also set a new record.
Both prongs of the profession have tried to manage expectations about the potential careeer opportunities available. The Law Society intends to launch a campaign targeting university and …
Not wanting to be doom mongers or anything but this week the bad news continues after last week’s rubbish GDP figures. Even the mighty Slaughters has opted to cut associate bonuses in half from 10% of salary to 5% whilst continuing with a salary freeze until the end of this year.
More widely, the prognosis for patient UK is looking horribly poor as the public sector faces massive cuts. Centre for Cities said in the Guardian that graduates would find …
