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College of Law to offer New York Bar course for UK law students

The College of Law has unveiled a new course that will enable students to sit the New York Bar exam. From September, students sitting the full-time Graduate Diploma in Law programme who go on to complete either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) will be able to take the New York Bar Exam after an additional 22-week study programme.
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Simmons puts 25 trainees on new MBA programme

Simmons & Simmons is set to put 25 of its future trainees onto its MBA programme with BPP this September, with the firm moving to make the MBA a permanent option within its graduate recruitment process. The City firm is now asking all potential recruits to specify whether or not they would like to take up the one-year course before starting their training contracts with the firm.
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International Edition

Law Student Report 2011

Capturing the views of over 3,000 law undergraduates from the UK's top universities (Russell Group) as well as Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students from the College of Law, BPP Law School and Kaplan Law School, this report identifies the reasons why students choose law as a career and how their views of law firms develop throughout their studies. This report looks at the career options considered by students, what attracts them to law and the most powerful influences on their choice of firm. The report reveals which forms of marketing have the most impact and which firms students believe are the most prestigious, the best for training contracts and best for a healthy work/life balance.
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Training and education

Alex Aldridge looks at how exclusive training deals came to dominate legal education, while Charlotte Edmond assesses law firms' efforts to reach out to a more diverse group of aspiring lawyers...
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International Edition

Training and education: Moving on up

It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.
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Legal Week

Training and education: Moving on up

It was inevitable that the recent report put together by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn would find professions such as law and medicine dominated by affluent, privately-educated individuals. While social mobility has been on the political agenda for years, the professions have seen little change, with the majority of the UK's lawyers still coming from a select group of independently-educated pupils who go on to attend Russell Group universities.
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International Edition

Training and education: All tied up

The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.
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International Edition

Career Clinic: Is my withdrawn training contract better kept secret?

"I had a training contract with a top 10 City firm, but after failing a GDL exam, my contract was withdrawn. I have spoken to a few other students from the same firm and other City firms who are in the same position. Now that we are all reapplying for contracts, is it worth mentioning the previous TC? Surely it is a positive achievement despite the disappointing end? Would it be wise to mention this on a CV/application form, or would it be better to do it face-to-face with recruiters?"
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International Edition

College of Law comes top of the class to seal Ashurst training tie-up

Ashurst has become one of the last firms in the UK top 20 to sign an exclusive deal to send all its future trainees to a specific course provider. From 2010, all Ashurst trainees will study at the College of Law, with the law school beating competition from rivals including BPP, Kaplan Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice to secure the agreement.
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International Edition

Why scrapping training contracts is a bad idea

Former Taylor Wessing trainee Natalie Salunke questions the recent proposals to do away with training contracts...
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