Jack Denton All About Law

Getting a training contract or in fact any sort of graduate job is becoming more and more difficult so what can we do to make ourselves more employable?

As a graduate you are increasingly unlikely to find yourself with a place on a graduate scheme as the number of student graduating vastly outstrips the number of places available.

Law fairs are really important. I didn’t really see them as one the defining parts of the University year and I certainly didn’t see it as integral to a legal career, but they are – or rather, they can be...

There are around 400,000 new graduates each year and all of them are fighting out for around 25,000 graduate positions.

It comes every year. The same routine.

First comes the moan about the exam time table, “a Saturday exam, is this some kind of joke! You have got to be kidding me! It is so unfair, Criminal and Tort are just 18 hours apart!”

This week we started a sixth form campaign. As I am sure lots of you will remember there are a bunch of things that would have made life easier if we had known them before we started law.

During high school I didn’t really have an interest in languages; if I am honest I couldn’t see the point and never really understood the grammar. I figured what was the point in putting in all those hours for a week in France or perhaps a weekend away in Germany. It turns out that was pretty short sighted...

Today, All About Law released some of our user statistics to see the general trends of law students in the UK. According to the latest statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency there are just fewer than 90,000 law students in the UK. The majority of those will be studying English and Welsh Law. We took a sample of over 2500 students and took at look at what aspiring lawyers are aiming for in the future.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing. Time really does seem to move very quickly, summer barely seems to have passed, but there is no escaping this sharp, cool winter air.

I imagine lots of people tuned in to watch Question Time last night to what Mr Griffin had to say. I was interested to see what he would say and how his party would be portrayed. Everyone seems to have a lot of opinions on the BNP but I do wonder how much of that is based on hear say?