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  • April 17, 2008 |

    TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round

    Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    BPP hikes fees 10% to £11,500

    BPP Law School - already London's most expensive postgraduate law school - has announced a 10% hike in its fees for the Legal Practice Certificate (LPC) to £11,500. The hike widens the price gap between BPP and City Law School, the next most expensive LPC provider in London, to nearly £1,000. City Law School will charge its full-time students fees of £10,600 for the 2008-09 academic year, after announcing a more modest 1% rise in its own rates.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Budding lawyers give A&O the thumbs up for work experience

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has been voted the UK's most popular firm for students and graduates looking to become a solicitor, according to new research. Sixty-four percent of more than 1,400 students and graduates polled rated A&O as 'excellent' and said that the firm provided the best work experience and internships, in the survey by graduate jobsite targetjobs.co.uk.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Remember me!

    As president of the University of Sheffield's Edward Bramley Law Society, I have been the student coordinator for law firm events and sponsorship for the past year. This has put me in a good position to weigh up the balance between students trying to impress the law firm and the law firm trying to impress us.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Making the cut

    to Dan Grundy, an associate at Latham & Watkins' London office, they are even trickier to secure than training contracts themselves. "Do not rank firms for these schemes - it is really competitive, so put in plenty of applications and take whatever you get," says Grundy.

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    Online special: Partners hail gay initiatives

    More than 90% of leading lawyers believe the profession has improved its record on supporting gay staff, as highlighted by a number of law firms recently launching their own lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. Emma Sadowski reports

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    World class

    Georgetown University Law School unveils its take on global expansion as it prepares for the opening of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Richard Lloyd reports

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    High society

    What are student law societies for? Free booze or good career advice? Paul Evans reports on the sometimes debauched, sometimes serious world of university law societies

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    High society

    The eminent legal historian and Harvard professor Morton Horwitz described the law as "an odd profession that presents its greatest scholarship in student-run publications".

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  • April 16, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 17/04/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Career Clinic dilemma; and more

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