Linklaters has got rid of its vacation scheme and training contract application form and has replaced it with an online test, in an attempt to make its recruitment process more accessible. The magic circle firm consulted students and found the traditional application form could take four to five hours to complete. It has come up […]
Deloitte has launched a new training contract designed to fit into the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) regime. The new ‘SQE Training Contract’ will be three years long rather that two, and will allow law graduates to begin immediately after finishing university, gaining qualifying legal work experience before sitting Parts 1 and 2 of the new […]
BPP Law School has revealed details of its new postgraduate diploma in law (PGDL), the conversion course for those wishing to pursue a legal career who did not study law at undergraduate level The eight-month full-time course (or 16 month part-time) will launch in September 2020 across BPP’s various campuses, and replace the current Graduate […]
When news first emerged that the SRA were planning to make changes to the way solicitors qualified in England and Wales, I was of the view that the system did not need changing and worked well. Indeed I had been through a very similar training system, as had my colleagues at major City and global […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority and Kaplan have finished their first pilot of Part 1 of the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) and are seeking to make changes based on their findings. The SQE, dubbed the ‘super-exam’, is the culmination of years of work into reform of legal education which began with the Legal Education and […]
The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) has warned that aspiring solicitors are open to exploitation under the new routes to qualification being implemented by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). In an open letter to the SRA’s CEO Paul Philip, it urged him to reconsider the decision to no longer regulate training contracts and training principals, writing: […]
The University of Law has announced plans to open a tenth campus, in Nottingham. Based at One Royal Standard Place, it will open to students next September. It will offer the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) – at least until those courses are phased out with the introduction of the new […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has pushed back the introduction of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) by another year, following feedback from universities and law firms. The SRA originally said the new way of qualifying as a solicitor should be in place by 2019; however, that estimate was later pushed back to autumn 2020. It now anticipates […]
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 […]
Avid Lawyer 2B readers will be well aware of the SRA’s plans to radically alter the process of qualifying as a solicitor via the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). For those less familiar with the topic, it can be summarised as follows: whereas the current formula for qualification can crudely be expressed as […]
Having completed a degree, LPC and training contract, most trainees are anxious to begin life as a newly qualified solicitor. One final hurdle remains: the SRA Suitability Test 2011.
A large proportion of students are still ignorant of the introduction of the new ‘super-exam’ for qualifying solicitors, according to new research.
