Tag: GDL

City Law School grad uses GDL knowledge to fight former employer
Samantha Savory secures victory in employment tribunal

White & Case boosts maintenance grant by over 60% in response to ‘increased cost of living’
Future trainees to receive £17k a year during LPC and GDL

Bakers provides £4k LPC ‘boost grant’ to future trainees in financial difficulty
On top of standard £10k maintenance support

Capsticks writes off trainee debt after bumper pandemic profits
LPC and SQE loans reportedly written off

‘I’m a non-law student totally confused by the new SQE’
I want to be a solicitor but I'm unsure what my options are

GDL providers take different approaches to exams in response to Omicron spread
Some students given 24 hours to submit each exam, while others have just 2 hours

7 things I wish I’d known before I started my GDL
Top tips for conversion course newcomers, courtesy of Durham Uni grad Sky Martle

GDL student numbers jumped by over a fifth during the pandemic
Covid disruption and SQE replacement contributing factors, report finds

LPC provider pass rates vary from 100% to just 23%, latest figures show
SRA annual report reveals 'significant differences' among anonymised law schools

How should non-law students prepare for the SQE?
BARBRI managing director, Sarah Hutchinson, explains how universities and law firms should advise aspiring lawyers from non-law backgrounds on their future qualification path

Will the SQE kill the GDL?
Legal Cheek talks to the main players to see where they stand on the law conversion course

Future Pinsent Masons trainee to fund law scholarship with proceeds of new book
Matthew Berrick's Legal Insider provides 'unfiltered insights' from top City lawyers

BPP students’ frustration over exam clash with winter vac scheme dates
Exclusive: Law school says it's 'unfortunate' and they 'have the opportunity to attend a 2021 scheme'

Crowdfunding wannabe barrister pledges free careers advice in return for donations
Mohamed Hussein Iman needs £15k to start GDL

Nottingham Trent Uni waives law student accommodation fees
Coronavirus: But uni's vice chancellor slams private third-party housing providers refusing to cancel rent costs

LPC pass rates nosedive as report reveals one law school where just 29% of students made the grade
While achievement gap between white and ethnic minority students remains large

STEM Future Lawyers and BPP launch 2020 GDL scholarship
Applications now open for science students interested in law

Herbert Smith Freehills offers £10,000 London GDL maintenance grant
£9,000 in the regions

ULaw secures GDL and LPC training deal with national law firm TLT
Outfit takes on around 15 trainees each year

BPP Law School launches new SQE-slanted GDL
Course aims to prepare non-law students for super-exam