Practice Management: Education & Training
Real life lessons
Paul Kerrigan and Heather Roberts explain why students are increasingly learning about proprietary estoppel claims
Building bridges
Dr Kryss Macleod says mentoring schemes, bridging legal education and employment, can increase mobility and diversity within the profession
Appeal to disadvantaged pupils to consider legal careers
Coalition of firms commissions series of digital workshops for socio-economically disadvantaged students
Growing your own
Training your people for partnership is investment not expenditure, says Chris Marston
Commercial awareness
Denis Viskovich explains how he’s levelling the playing field to make it fair for all students seeking to join commercial firms
It’s time to act
The profession must look inwards to tackle systemic racial inequality, says Trevor Sterling
Homefront
Dr Bob Murray provides some coping strategies for those leading their firm from home
Old dogs, new tricks
Simulated practice and client settings in the form of objective structured professional assessment could be used to assess professional ethics, argues Kati
Concerns remain over BAME attainment gap in SQE
The final SQE design is unveiled today following a marathon consultation process, but there are continued concerns at the BAME attainment gap
