Education & Training

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Summertime tea making

Summer is here and, like many firms, we have been hosting work experience and vacation scheme students for the past few weeks.

Newly qualifieds flying the nest

Natasza Slater considers the significance of firms' trainee retention rates and whether it is worth looking outside your current firm for a newly qualified role

Fears that vocational training could produce unethical and underqualified lawyers

Law Society warns against training without the training contract

'Walls of Jericho have fallen': New CILEx president enters with a bang, and a message

Access to justice and the future of legal training is top of the agenda for David Edwards

Training in ethics needs to come sooner rather than later

Joanne Urston welcomes the inclusion of ethics in the SRA's competence statement, saying lawyers need to develop a sense of professionalism

Leaving the law

Laura Clenshaw discusses lawyers' exodus from the profession

Paralegal takeover: professional register goes live

Consumers will be 'safe in the knowledge' that they are using regulated paralegals

Are you competency confident?

Jennifer Haren discusses how the SRA intends to police the new CPD regime and what could warrant an investigation