law students

• Education education education
  Posted on November 20, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Education is a wonderful thing. Yes, at school you have to do fractions and you might have to go out on a wet and cold day to play hockey, but you also get to learn amazing things about the growth of volcanoes and Henry VIII’s appalling record on relationships and try your hand at writing poetry in French and making pretty pictures with iron filings. You might also, ahem, get a snog behind the bike sheds.
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  Posted in: Uncategorized
  Tagged: LETR, education, legal training, law school, lawyers, law students
• You get what you pay for: the SRA and the minimum salary
  Posted on May 9, 2012 by Louise Restell
  This week, it appears, I am regulator bashing. It’s not much of a sport as it’s so easy to do, but hey, we all have to get our kicks somewhere. Yesterday I was rather disparaging about the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) website for consumers. Today I am taking them to task over their ‘consultation’ on whether to scrap the minimum salary for trainee solicitors.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: diversity, law graduates, law students, legal profession, LETR, minimum salary, social mobility, SRA, training contracts