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Training and education: The talent grab

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.
9 minute read

International Edition

Hengeler ramps up business education for junior lawyers

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.
3 minute read

International Edition

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

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...
4 minute read

International Edition

College of Law to offer New York Bar course for UK law students

The College of Law has unveiled a new course that will enable students to sit the New York Bar exam. From September, students sitting the full-time Graduate Diploma in Law programme who go on to complete either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) will be able to take the New York Bar Exam after an additional 22-week study programme.
2 minute read

International Edition

Simmons puts 25 trainees on new MBA programme

Simmons & Simmons is set to put 25 of its future trainees onto its MBA programme with BPP this September, with the firm moving to make the MBA a permanent option within its graduate recruitment process. The City firm is now asking all potential recruits to specify whether or not they would like to take up the one-year course before starting their training contracts with the firm.
2 minute read

International Edition

Law Student Report 2011

Capturing the views of over 3,000 law undergraduates from the UK's top universities (Russell Group) as well as Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students from the College of Law, BPP Law School and Kaplan Law School, this report identifies the reasons why students choose law as a career and how their views of law firms develop throughout their studies. This report looks at the career options considered by students, what attracts them to law and the most powerful influences on their choice of firm. The report reveals which forms of marketing have the most impact and which firms students believe are the most prestigious, the best for training contracts and best for a healthy work/life balance.
4 minute read

International Edition

Training and education

Alex Aldridge looks at how exclusive training deals came to dominate legal education, while Charlotte Edmond assesses law firms' efforts to reach out to a more diverse group of aspiring lawyers...
1 minute read

International Edition

Training and education: Moving on up

It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.
9 minute read

Legal Week

Training and education: Moving on up

It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.
20 minute read

International Edition

Training and education: All tied up

The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.
10 minute read

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