Frustrated Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) candidates are calling on the SRA to increase accessibility to the appeals process after a results error saw 175 candidates mistakenly told they had failed their exams. On Monday last week, the SRA announced that 175 candidates who sat SQE1 in January and were told they had failed on 14 […]
The Lawyer‘s Christian Smith, Catrin Griffiths, Richard Simmons, Katy Dowell and Charlotte Lear are joined by College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor for this emergency episode of The Lawyer Podcast as they discuss the latest Solicitors Qualification Exam debacle: marking errors that led to 175 students being incorrectly told they had failed. What went […]
Nearly 200 law students were incorrectly told they had failed their first set of Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) exams, in what the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has called “the most serious operational mistake that we’ve made in the last two and half years.” Kaplan, the exam administrator for the SQE, has […]
The College of Legal Practice (CoLP) has unveiled its preparatory courses for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE), declaring them a “generational change for legal education.” The full online programme preparing students to pass the SQE1 and SQE2 examinations will launch in summer 2021 and is called Developing Legal Professionals (DLP). It is divided into […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has named Kaplan as the organisation which will be setting the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). The new way of qualifying as a solicitor, which concludes with the so-called ‘super-exam’, was first mooted by the SRA at the end of 2015, but it was met with resistance by segments of […]
Farrer & Co has become the latest firm to choose BPP as its preferred Legal Practice Course (LPC) provider of choice after Kaplan Law School closed in August. A spokesperson for Farrers said the firm is planning on using BPP going forward. It is the latest firm to switch to BPP as its preferred LPC provider, following […]
Mayer Brown has chosen BPP as the preferred provider of its Legal Practice Course (LPC). The US-founded firm partners with the University of Law (ULaw) for its ’Articled Apprenticeship’ but has followed Holman Fenwick Willan and Nabarro in picking BPP following the closure of its former provider, Kaplan’s, LPC. The firm’s future joiners will transfer to […]
Today’s students want job satisfaction and they are prepared to work long and hard to get it, as our survey into student attitudes shows. In 2004 Lawyer 2B ran a wide-ranging survey into the expectations and profile of wannabe lawyers. We sent out paper questionnaires with the magazine and students posted them back to us… […]
Holman Fenwick Willan and Nabarro have chosen BPP as their preferred Legal Practice Course (LPC) provider. The news comes in the wake of Kaplan Law School’s decision to close its LPC and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) courses in order to focus on “innovative new products”. In the past HFW and Nabarro had both chosen Kaplan […]
Kaplan Law School has closed its Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) to focus on “innovative new products” which will cater to new legal education frameworks. It is just over one year since the law school shut down its Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), blaming the economics of delivering the course […]
Kaplan Law School held a personal branding and networking day last week. Here’s what we learned: Law firms use networking sessions more and more as a way to assess your people skills. They want to see your ability to work a room while appearing interested in the individuals you come across. Entering a group is […]
Kaplan Law School has lost Shearman & Sterling as a client after the US firm switched its Legal Practice Course (LPC) training to the University of Law. ULaw will be teaching Shearman’s prospective trainees, of whom there are between 15 and 17 annually, from this September. The win is a coup for ULaw, after it […]