The fees for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) have been revealed. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has confirmed that the candidate fee for the exam, to be introduced in September 2021 subject to approval from the Legal Services Board, will be £3,980. This will include £1,558 for SQE part 1 – two exams consisting […]
The Junior Lawyers Division of The Law Society (JLD) has called for a delay in the implementation of the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE), set to be introduced in 2021. The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) approved the final design of the SQE last week, following the conclusion of its final pilot exercise. […]
The board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has approved the final design of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), following the conclusion of its final pilot exercise. A total of 167 candidates took part in the second pilot (the first concluded in summer 2019), designed to test SQE2 – the second part of the super-exam. […]
Kennedys is to run a new training scheme that merges law school and the training contract. The new Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship (GSA), as the firm is calling it, is to begin in autumn 2021. It will be open to law graduates coming straight out of university, or non-law graduates who have passed the conversion course, […]
The entire process of becoming a lawyer is time sensitive. Students progress through university and law school, taking exams in their due turn. Law firms hunt for new talent and offer jobs two years in advance. Trainees wheel through the rotation of seats and eventually apply for newly-qualified jobs. As the seasons turn so does […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has found huge discrepancies in Legal Practice Course (LPC) pass rates across the country in its annual quality assurance report. In the 2017/18 academic year, pass rates ranged from as high as 100 per cent to as low as 29 per cent depending on where students study. The overall pass […]
Many of us may have over-indulged this festive season and as January brings the start of a new year with good intentions, the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society discusses some of its key objectives for the year ahead to support junior lawyers in England and Wales.
As the legal industry continues to innovate and disrupt at pace, the profession itself remains static, relying on technical excellence to try to maintain its monopoly on providing legal advice to an ever more demanding customer base. While customer-centric law companies are maximising the benefits of technological and operational advances, the profession continues to train […]
A group of six firms have appointed BPP Law School to design their legal training for a post-Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) world. The so-called ‘City Consortium’ group is made up of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright and Slaughter and May. They have given the go-ahead to BPP to […]
One of the biggest names in Australian legal education has entered the English and Welsh legal marketplace. The College of Law Australia and New Zealand – not affiliated with the University of Law (ULaw), which was previously known as the College of Law of England and Wales – has established itself as a practice based […]
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 […]