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Law schools “trapped in the 1970s”, Susskind says
Friday, 16 June 2017Many law schools are teaching law “as it was in the 1970s”, Professor Richard Susskind, IT adviser to the Lord Chancellor, has said. Professor Susskind said there was “little regard” for technology or artificial intelligence, leaving law graduates “not just ill-prepared for legal work as it is today, but very ill-prepared for how it will be tomorrow”.
Tags: Education and training
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Technology
BSB to review training role of Inns of Court
Friday, 2 June 2017The Bar Standards Board is to review the role of the Inns of Court in the training of barristers, it has emerged. Among the issues are applying admission requirements, approving pupil supervisors, providing training courses for pupils and student discipline.
Tags: bar standards board, Education and training, Future Bar Training, Inns of Court
Posted in Barristers, Latest news, Regulation
SRA bows to pressure and puts SQE on hold
Thursday, 2 June 2016The Solicitors Regulation Authority has bowed to fierce opposition from universities and law schools, and put its plans to introduce a new centralised assessment test for future solicitors on hold. The SRA’s board was due to decide on whether to go ahead at its meeting yesterday.
Tags: Education and training, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SQE
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
DAS Law launches graduate academy as staff numbers top 200
Friday, 6 May 2016DAS Law – the alternative business structure set up by the eponymous legal expenses insurer – is launching a pioneering graduate academy for “lawyers of the future”, with the first six recruits starting next month. Staff numbers at the firm have doubled to around 220 since it was created in 2013.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Education and training, legal expenses insurance, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, hrtraining, Latest news
SRA announces rethink on training reforms
Wednesday, 23 March 2016Paul Philip, chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, has announced a rethink on plans to abolish the minimum period of workplace training required by all future solicitors. Meanwhile, the regulator also yesterday launched ‘Law Firm Search’, a new searchable, online database of the law firms it regulates.
Tags: Education and training, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SQE
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Report highlights perception gap between partners and fee-earners
Tuesday, 22 March 2016There is a big gap in the way partners and fee-earners at medium-sized law firms view where they work, including “an exaggerated sense of progressiveness among decision-makers”, a new report has found. Partners were far more confident than fee-earners that their firm had a “clear strategy for the future”.
Tags: Education and training, law firms, marketing, Technology
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Marketing & PR, Outsourcing, Technology
City firm launches groundbreaking six-year apprenticeship route to qualification as solicitor
Thursday, 17 March 2016Eversheds and BPP University Law School have launched a six-year apprenticeship scheme leading to qualification as a solicitor. The law firm is believed to be the first to launch a scheme at this level, but its shape depends partly on the fate of the Solicitors Qualification Examination.
Tags: Education and training, Solicitors Regulation Authority, SQE
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
SQE could create “even greater diversity problem”, Law Society says
Thursday, 18 February 2016Plans by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to introduce a centrally assessed Solicitors Qualifying Examination could create an “even greater diversity problem” for the profession, the Law Society has warned. The society said it could be a “huge issue for those without financial support”.
Tags: Education and training, Law Society, SQE
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Small law firms have most to lose from SQE, leading academic warns
Thursday, 4 February 2016Small law firms have the most to lose if a Solicitors Qualifying Examination is introduced as it may downgrade the value of being part of the profession, a leading legal academic has warned. Professor Anthony Bradney said the exam could be a way for solicitors to “very rapidly lose their reputation”.
Tags: Education and training, Solicitors Qualifying Exam, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Confusion the biggest threat to new competence regime, survey suggests
Thursday, 14 January 2016Confusion among solicitors is the biggest challenge to the hours-free competence regime introduced by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, a survey has suggested. The second biggest challenge was that “solicitors think they won’t have to do any training”.
Tags: competence, Education and training, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news