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Law Society plots paralegal accreditation scheme
The Law Society will launch a paralegal accreditation scheme later this year for non-qualified staff working in organisations regulated by the SRA, it has emerged. It will be for all staff from secretaries to those with an LLB or LLB/LPC and no training contract.
From school-leavers to lawyers – CILEx and College of Law strike 'one-stop shop' training deal
The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has formed a strategic collaboration with the College of Law to offer legal employers training options for all staff, from school leavers to fully qualified lawyers.
LETR team floats radical reforms to “unfit” training regime
The system for training lawyers is not fit for purpose, the Legal Education and Training Review research team has suggested. The team of academics floated a series of ideas that in some instances would represent radical reform of the present regime.
Training review to put values and ethics at “core of legal services”
Putting “values and ethics” at the heart of legal services provision will be one of the key themes taken forward by the Legal Education and Training Review following a major symposium in Manchester, along with quality of legal services and paralegals.
Safe hands: why the paralegal work-based learning graduates are fit to be solicitors
Jane Ching, Reader at Nottingham Law School, outlines its experience of running the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s work-based learning pilot that offered a route to qualification as a solicitor for those working as paralegals.
Research casts doubt on whether work-based learning will open up access to profession
Offering would-be solicitors – and particularly paralegals – a route to qualification that does not require a training contract may not be the way to reduce barriers to access to the profession, new research has suggested.
News in brief: Co-op expands legal arm, paralegals on the up and much more
Our weekly round-up of other news takes in further expansion at Co-operative Legal Services, two innovations on the paralegal front, “virtual” firms piloting the SRA’s relationship management, and a tricky decision for LSB chairman David Edmonds
Green: ProcureCo opens up huge market for Bar; moral need to tackle student oversupply
Every chambers, “from the most vulnerable of publicly funded sets to the most smug and complacent of specialist, privately funded sets”, needs to prepare for change, with the Bar’s ProcureCo model opening up “hundreds of millions of pounds of work” to barristers, the chairman of the Bar Council said on Saturday. Addressing the annual Bar conference, Nicholas Green QC also expressed his “moral qualms” about the number of students trying to enter the Bar compared to the number of available pupillages, and about how many of those who fail to find vocational training are instead creating a “paralegal workforce”, saying the aptitude test being introduced for bar students may not be enough.
Kinsella: no “big bang” but ABSs can be a strategic tool for good – and bad
There will be no ‘big bang’ in legal services in the near future and if solicitors are waiting for it before deciding on their firm’s survival strategy, they risk being overtaken by events, a leading solicitor has warned. Neil Kinsella, managing partner of national law firm Russell Jones & Walker, also said that firms could be “dancing with the devil” by accepting private equity investment.
Will-writer and paralegal bodies join forces
The Fellowship of Professional Willwriters and Probate Practitioners has joined forces with the National Association of Licensed Paralegals in the latest bid to take the lead in both the will-writing and paralegal markets.
