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Herbert Smith offers TCs to Belfast support centre staff

Herbert Smith Freehills has started taking on trainees in its Belfast legal support centre for the first time, with the firm offering some of its legal assistants training contracts in a bid to retain talent. Three legal assistants took up contracts with the firm in September, with more expected to do the same next year, depending on business needs.
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College of Law confirms uni status in rebrand as 'The University of Law'

The College of Law has rebranded as the University of Law, after being granted university status. The college, which has held degree-awarding powers since 2006, says the award represents a "culmination of many years of growth, innovation and recognition of the institution's unique role in legal education".
3 minute read

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How do you shortlist the right law firm to apply for?

You've collected all the student guides; you have spoken to representatives at law fairs; you've collected countless branded pens. But what do you actually do with all this information and how do you choose which firms to apply to?
5 minute read

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A model for progress – teaching law students in Vietnam

Before becoming a solicitor, I previously trained and worked as a nurse. The experience gave me a commitment to hands-on learning and 'clinical' teaching similar to that practised in medical and related fields. So I was very keen to respond to a request from the charity Bridges Across Borders South East Asia's (BABSEA) community legal education initiative for clinical legal education (CLE) experts to join a team running a legal education summer school in Vietnam in July and August – even with a warning that experts would have to be prepared to work long hours and stay in fairly basic conditions.
8 minute read

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Kings College London unveils £20m law scholarship programme

The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London has launched the largest ever scholarship programme for law in the UK and Europe, with a £20m gift from the school's benefactor, Hong Kong businessman Dickson Poon. Eighty law scholarships will be available in 2013, with up to 75 covering all or part of the fees available to undergraduates enrolling in 2013 and up to five worth £90,000 each for post graduate PhD students. The scholarships will not be means tested.
3 minute read

International Edition

PRIME time: training the legal stars of tomorrow

Given the awful fact that it is now harder to enter the legal profession than it was 30 years ago, over the past few years many of the UK's largest law firms have set up schemes to reach out to schoolchildren to encourage them to apply for work experience.
10 minute read

International Edition

Herbert Smith brings forward start dates of deferred Hong Kong NQs

Herbert Smith Freehills has asked two qualifying trainees in Hong Kong to bring forward their start date at the firm, after initially asking them to defer due to the slowdown in capital markets work in the region. The firm is taking on five newly-qualified corporate lawyers, but asked three of the intake to delay their start date from 1 September until 1 January. However, the firm has now asked two of the trio to bring their start dates forward again.
3 minute read

International Edition

Mills & Reeve line up with magic circle duo on Cambridge Uni bond issue

Mills & Reeve has taken a lead role alongside Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters on the University of Cambridge's 40-year, £350m bond issue. Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland are joint-managing the offering from the university, which last week received an AAA credit rating from Moody's. The move marks the university's first foray into the public market in its 800-year history.
2 minute read

International Edition

Training and education

JDG Chambers explores the new Bar Course Aptitude Test and examines the impact of the abolition of the minimum trainee salary
1 minute read

International Edition

Bet your bottom dollar - the abolition of the minimum salary for trainee solicitors

In 2014, the minimum salary for trainee solicitors will be abolished. JDG Chambers assesses the impact this will have on current students.
15 minute read

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