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Signs of recovery as conveyancing firm sets up academy and Law Society predicts strong growth
Friday, 29 August 2014Yorkshire’s largest conveyancing firm has set up a £150,000 training academy after its workload trebled in the past two years. It comes as the Law Society has predicted increased turnover growth in the legal sector this year and next, in part because of the recovering property market.
Tags: conveyancing, trainee solicitors
Posted in Finance, hrtraining, Latest news
Minimum salary finally to go as LSB approves training deregulation
Tuesday, 10 June 2014The Legal Services Board has approved wide-ranging plans by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to deregulate training, including the delayed demise of the minimum salary.
Tags: deregulation, Legal Services Board, minimum wage, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Plant hits out at City law firms over trainee recruitment
Monday, 21 October 2013The ex-City lawyer chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority has questioned the recruitment methods of City law firms in making university students decide to become commercial lawyers so early on in their legal careers.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, LETR, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in Barristers, hrtraining, Latest news, Legal Executives, Solicitors
SRA scraps minimum salary for trainees
Thursday, 17 May 2012The minimum salary for trainee solicitors will be scrapped on 1 August 2014, the board of the SRA decided yesterday, saying it is not the job of a regulator to control wages. Firms will be required to pay the national minimum wage of £6.08 an hour.
Tags: minimum salary, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
City firm to place its LPC students with clients as part of innovative MA
Tuesday, 3 April 2012Prospective trainee solicitors at Reed Smith are to conduct projects for the international firm’s clients as part of an innovative legal practice course that integrates legal and business learning and leads to a unique Masters qualification – the MA (LPC with Business).
Tags: legal practice course, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news
SRA: trainees could be paid £2.60 an hour in first year if minimum salary is scrapped
Friday, 23 March 2012The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to consider retaining the minimum salary for trainee solicitors at the level of the national minimum wage after discovering that without it trainees would be classed as apprentices and so could be paid just £2.60 an hour in their first year – less than £5,000.
Tags: minimum salary, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
SRA bids to scrap minimum salary for trainees
Thursday, 12 January 2012There is no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old policy of minimum salaries for trainee solicitors, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said. It also admitted to concerns that the Legal Education and Training Review’s timetable is too tight.
Tags: bar standards board, ILEX Professional Standards, legal education and training review, minimum salary, Solicitors Regulation Authority, trainee solicitors
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Solicitors
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Keeping the conversation going beyond Pride Month
As I reflect on all the celebrations of Pride Month 2024, I ask myself why there remains hesitancy amongst LGBTQ+ staff members about when it comes to being open about their identity in the workplace.
Third-party managed accounts: Your key questions answered
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has given strong indications that it is headed towards greater restrictions on law firms when it comes to handling client money.
Understanding vicarious trauma in the legal workplace
Vicarious trauma can happen to anyone who works with clients who have experienced trauma such as domestic or other violence, child abuse, sexual assault, torture or being a refugee.
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