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College of Law launches combined LPC and LLM course

The College of Law is to offer a new combined Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Master of Laws (LLM) course from 2013, replacing its existing LPC qualification with an LLM LPC. In the first qualification of its kind, students will be able to specialise in either international or national legal practice, choosing between the award of LLM in International Legal Practice LPC or an LLM in Legal Practice LPC. The cost and duration of the new qualification will remain the same, the College said.
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Get ready for risk: why it is better to plan for the unexpected than wait to be caught up in a storm

Cass professor Peter Giblin argues legal professionals should help bluechips take a proactive stance on risk
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International Edition

Are law firm partners getting PMT?*

Partners are lacking crucial business skills - it is time law firms introduce formal training in project management, says Andrew Sharpe (*That's project management training...)
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Addleshaws, Simmons and Weil confirm autumn retention rates

Addleshaw Goddard, Simmons & Simmons and Weil Gotshal & Manges have confirmed their autumn 2012 retention rates, with the US firm's result falling to 69%. Addleshaws is keeping on 27 of its 32 newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers, resulting in an 84% retention rate. The September qualifiers are split across the firm's offices in London, Leeds and Manchester.
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Graduate intake at top UK law firms falls 11% over post-crunch years

Graduate recruitment across the bulk of the UK top 20 looks set to shrink by more than 10% between 2008-09 and 2013-14 as firms continue to scale back trainee numbers in response to the dampened economic climate.
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Penningtons advising London Met Uni amid immigration crisis

Penningtons is advising London Metropolitan University following the UK Border Agency's (UKBA) decision to remove the university's licence to teach or recruit international students. The UKBA this week revoked the university's Highly Trusted Status to sponsor students from outside the European Union, leaving more than 2,000 students facing removal from the country within 60 days unless they can find another place to study in the UK.
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Legal education review highlights 'fundamental gaps' in current system

Aspiring lawyers are not being taught key commercial and client relationship skills, with "fundamental gaps" in the current legal education system. Legal education and training needs to be overhauled so legal professionals are taught core knowledge, communication, organisational and commercial skills, according to a discussion paper published by the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) this week.
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International Edition

Norton Rose and Herbert Smith confirm autumn NQ retention rates

Herbert Smith and Norton Rose have both confirmed their trainee retention rates for this September's intake, with the former retaining 80% of its newly-qualified lawyers (NQs). Forty-five out of 56 trainees will be kept on at the firm this autumn, with the 80% figure static on last autumn's qualification round, when the firm took on 44 of 55 NQs. However, the retention rate is slightly down on this spring's intake, which saw 88% of NQs kept on.
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Career Clinic: Self-funding the LPC - a bad idea?

"I am a recent graduate in law (good 2:1) from a top 20 UK institution. I have also done a year abroad on my degree and I am about to take a second year abroad, whilst gaining non-law work experience. However, I am a BBB student at A-level and there are some not-so-good results on my degree. Having not secured a training contract thus far, I was wondering whether I should self-fund my Legal Practice Course (LPC)?
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International Edition

American Bar Association confirms US will not accredit foreign law schools

The American Bar Association (ABA) has voted not to get involved in accrediting foreign law schools, ending nearly two years of speculation regarding the matter in the international legal education market.
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