Five top tips for newly qualified lawyers
Simon Ashcroft, a newly qualified in-house lawyer, shares the five things you should know when…
05 Apr 2022
Junior lawyers
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- Apprenticeships: Information for employers04 Feb 2021
- Best practice guidance: work experience placements04 Oct 2021
- Funding the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)14 Mar 2022
- Government guidance on coronavirus and apprenticeships11 Aug 2020
- Graham Turnbull human rights essay competition and lecture01 Apr 2021
- Notice of retention of newly qualified solicitors10 Jan 2018
- Qualifying work experience (QWE)09 Feb 2022
- Qualifying work experience for paralegals05 Aug 2021
- Recommended minimum salary for trainee solicitors and SQE candidates15 Jul 2021
- Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)21 Sep 2021
- Supervision: good practice for remote supervision of junior staff and trainee solicitors07 Jul 2021
- Understanding workplace harassment19 Dec 2018
- Diversity Access Scheme review26 Jan 2022
- Can I administer a statutory declaration if I’m not currently working?07 Jun 2022
- Can a trainee represent a client in the Upper Tribunal?02 Apr 2020
- I took the LPC 10 years ago. Is it too late to train as a solicitor?06 May 2021
- I’m newly qualified. Can I become a freelance solicitor?02 Feb 2022
- What guidance do you offer trainees on practical legal issues?20 Jan 2020
- What wording should I use to swear an oral statutory declaration?14 Apr 2022
- Junior Lawyers Division local group handbook10 Jan 2019
- Local junior lawyers divisions and groups01 Feb 2021
- Voluntary code of recruitment for trainee solicitors17 Dec 2015
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