RECRUITMENT SUPPLEMENT 2020
Building a career in the law
The profession attracts people from all backgrounds and walks of life, with no two lawyers’ days looking the same.
Role modelling
Lockdown, which turned the legal recruitment market on its head earlier this year, is back. Yet recruiters are optimistic, reports Maria Shahid.
Tools for the job
The stakes are high when recruiting in the middle of a global pandemic. Virtual interviews are the new normal but they come with complications, reports Maria Shahid.
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Legal Aid Practitioners Group highlights 'lethal combination' threatening sector's future.
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Top law school reassures students following backlash over online teaching
BSB spent £250k on faulty bar school exams
SQE candidates 'unlikely' to get loans, says super-regulator
University of Law fails to block trade mark in dispute with former student
In-house
Champion of change
Tiring of a repetitive workload, Wayne Spillett moved in-house to take on a fresh challenge every day. The Law Society’s in-house solicitor of the year has not looked back, hears Jonathan Rayner.
Features
The fallacy of the homeworking revolution
Choose your conflict style
Legal challenges of caring for the young
Let us go forward together
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Smart contracts: what lawyers really need to know
A career in IP
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Wellbeing
Legal aid evidence reveals wellbeing crisis
Legal Aid Practitioners Group highlights 'lethal combination' threatening sector's future.
