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Hear what our Business Development Director, Alisa Gray has to say on why and how the digital age changes legal training. What impacts the legal profession, necessarily impacts the delivery and content of legal training. Advancements in information technology have changed the way in which we work forever. Location is no longer a limiting factor as we…

The Professional Skills course(PSC) for trainee solicitors can be an incredibly exciting time. It’s the final stage of training prior to becoming officially qualified as a solicitor, allowing you to bravely take the next step in your career. But as it’s the final hurdle in your two years as a trainee solicitor, this step could…

Enhancing personal skills is essential to your own individual development but it can also prove crucial to your professional growth, acceleration and recognition. Having the right exam results and qualifications on paper is of course both excellent and necessary for the legal sector, but to an employer, personal skills such as commercial awareness, time management…

While practising law and progressing up the career ladder, you’ll always want to serve your clients with the highest standard of professionalism, enhancing your skillset wherever possible. However, in order to do so, certain situations may call for you to be able to operate within a Crown Court and High Court for civil or criminal…

When asked what employee benefits your firm offers, most will initially think of monetary bonuses based on performance, additional holiday leave for longevity in the company or even flexible working structures – typically anything that makes an employee’s life more comfortable or a job role more alluring. However, staff training is often excluded from this…

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) sets out a risk outlook every year to highlight risks and challenges faced by law firms. As part of this annual outlook, the SRA provides guidance on what can be done to address these key industry issues and minimise risk for the future, wherever possible. Ultimately much of this preparation…

As is the case with many professional careers today, there is no longer simply one way to become a practising lawyer/ solicitor in the UK. However, the requirement for strong personal skills remains incredibly important to succeeding in the legal sector, with qualities such as motivation, a competitive attitude, effective communication skills and commercial awareness…

A career in the legal sector can be highly competitive and thanks to ever changing client requirements and technological developments, it can often mean that your role and what’s required of you is continuously evolving. That said, in the blog this week we’ve outlined five key things you can start to do now to make…

The road to becoming a practising solicitor is not without its obstacles as it includes several exams, years of studying and of course, standing out to achieve a highly sought after training contract. So, if you’re one of the 140,000 solicitors in the UK, what can you do to differentiate yourself once qualified? For our…

Research from the ACFE, SRA and PwC shows that fraud is on the rise across all industries and many professional organisations are searching for effective ways to combat and minimise risk. We believe that your team can be an effective tool to help protect your organisation, particularly if they’re aware of key warning signs and…