Legal Education

Student round-up: Coventry Uni unveils sports law course; Ashurst signs UAE law school deal

By Alex Aldridge | May 10, 2010

Coventry University is launching a new postgraduate certificate in sports law. The one-year programme will run for the first time from October 2010, and will be delivered at Coventry University's new London campus located in East India House in the City of London. The course, which will cost around £3,000, is open to anyone with an LLB or GDL qualification or to non-legally qualified individuals with significant experience in the sports world.

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OC signs up to exclusive College of Law training deal

By Suzi Ring | April 22, 2010

Osborne Clarke (OC) has become the latest firm to seal an exclusive deal to send all of its City trainees to study at the College of Law. From September 2010, the college will provide the Graduate Diploma in Law, the Professional Skills Course and the Legal Practice Course for all of OC's future trainees.

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Ashurst targets Indian graduates in effort to broaden trainee intake

By Jeremy Hodges | March 30, 2010

Ashurst will for the first time take on trainees direct from India from September 2011. The top 10 law firm has been actively targeting both Indian and Chinese universities for prospective trainees over the last year, with the first wave of new recruits set to hit the firm next year.

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Camerons offers two NQs contracts over permanent positions

By Sofia Lind | March 30, 2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has taken the unusual step of offering trainees temporary contracts upon qualification. Camerons retained an above-average 79% of its 29 trainees qualifying in March, but it has since emerged that two of the group were offered contracts of just one year and six months respectively.

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Training and education

By Legal Week | March 25, 2010

Attempts to replace the training contract with work-based education are struggling to win support...

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Training and education: Leaders in the making

By Legal Week | March 24, 2010

Many current managing partners joined their firms before law became a global business. They worked hard, focused on their clients and then found themselves running increasingly complex and sophisticated organisations. Not surprisingly, the approach to leadership and management in law varies greatly and many leaders have been left to develop these broader skills in relative isolation. This is compounded by the fact that every other fee earner in the firm is working hard, focusing on their clients and trying their best to ignore the things that management is doing. This article assesses the extent to which current approaches to developing partners prepares them for the future and the role that training/development departments play in this future.

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Training and education: The evolution of legal training

By Legal Week | March 24, 2010

Since its establishment in January 2007, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has indelibly stamped its mark on the profession. Having introduced a new code of conduct in 2007 and overhauled the Legal Practice Course, the SRA in 2008 began to tackle the training contract, which has been the route for qualification as a solicitor since 1994, by trialing a new system for training lawyers. "We're aiming to make the legal profession one pure meritocracy," declares SRA education and training manager Tim Pearce.

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Training and education: The talent grab

By Friederike Heine | March 24, 2010

Despite a broad move towards widening participation, entry into the legal profession is a long way from being a level playing field. A demand for intelligent high-performers inherently pushes law firms towards recruiting from leading institutions, so despite their best efforts at broadening access it may be of limited surprise that half of the trainees recruited at City firms over the last two years went to one of the UK's top 10 universities.

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Hengeler ramps up business education for junior lawyers

By Suzi Ring | March 23, 2010

Leading German firm Hengeler Mueller has shaken up its associate training programme, as growing numbers of firms operating in the country look at amending their own training programmes for lawyers. Hengeler's formal link with Switzerland's University of St Gallen came into effect on 1 January, with associates to start the first modules with the university this month.

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The NY Bar exam - first we take Manhattan, then we take Burnley

By Legal Week | March 18, 2010

The College of Law's newly-launched 'US JD-style' course - which enable its graduates to sit the New York Bar exam - will doubtless hold an allure to the increasing numbers of law students completing their studies without training contracts or pupillages to go to...

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Legaltech News

'Ridiculous': Some Law Schools Falling Behind on Data Privacy Education

By Cassandre Coyer | September 7, 2023

The lack of focus on privacy-related courses in some U.S. law schools could further exacerbate the shortage of much-needed data privacy expertise.

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Daily Report Online

Georgia State in Study on Law Schools Overperforming—and Underperforming—Ultimate Bar Passage Rate Expectations

By Christine Charnosky | September 6, 2023

Another recently published paper has further explored law school bar exam passage rates relative to expectations, this time examining how schools are either "overperforming" or "underperforming" with regard to their ultimate bar passage rates.

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Law.com

New Study: The Law Schools Overperforming—and Underperforming—Ultimate Bar Passage Rate Expectations

By Christine Charnosky | September 5, 2023

Another recently published paper has further explored law school bar exam passage rates relative to expectations, this time examining how schools are either "overperforming" or "underperforming" with regard to their ultimate bar passage rates.

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Law.com

University of Tennessee Law Receives $2M Gift From Local Litigation Firm

By Christine Charnosky | September 5, 2023

The most recent gift will be used to support the law school's Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, Legal Clinic, the Douglas Blaze Professorship and scholarships for students interested in pursuing legal careers in advocacy, according to the school's announcement.

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Law.com

Nebraska Law Establishes First Amendment Clinic With $1M Gift

By Christine Charnosky | September 5, 2023

"We will defend the First Amendment rights of our clients while at the same time educating students on the intricacies of First Amendment law," Daniel Gutman, director of the First Amendment Clinic, said in a statement.

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New Jersey Law Journal

Proposed Law School Accreditation Standard of Free Speech and Disruptive Behavior Is Needed

By Law Journal Editorial Board | September 3, 2023

Public discourse in this country is currently in a state of woeful dysfunction. If there is to be any hope of a return to norms of civilized and reasoned disagreement, the legal profession may have a special role in its recovery.

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Law.com

Toronto Law School to Return Amazon's $450K Donation Amid Criticism Over Transparency

By Gail J. Cohen | August 31, 2023

The money to fund research on antitrust and competition issues came at a time when the Canadian government has been taking a hard look at the anti-competitive conduct of e-retailers.

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Connecticut Law Tribune

Quinnipiac Law Dean to Step Down After Decade of Leading

By Christine Charnosky | August 31, 2023

"I want to thank Jennifer for her innovative and passionate leadership and ingraining her mantra 'to educate the whole lawyer to understand and serve the whole client' into the law school's mission," Debra J. Liebowitz, provost of Quinnipiac University, said.

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Law.com

July MBE National Mean Scaled Score Ticks Up Slightly

By Christine Charnosky | August 31, 2023

"We saw small score increases this July for both first-time and repeat test takers, with the greatest increase for those who were repeating the exam," Rosemary Reshetar, NCBE director of assessment and research, said in a statement.

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Daily Report Online

Three Law Schools, Including Emory, Receive VA Grants to Help Military Members

By Christine Charnosky | August 30, 2023

"The VLC is honored to be part of this first-of-its-kind VA grant opportunity to fund legal service providers to better reach this vulnerable group of veterans," Beth Kubala, teaching professor and executive director of the VLC, said in a statement.

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