Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup where we share headlines and brief summaries of notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. These articles provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to date with current legal and business affairs. If you’d like to…
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This is a quiz to test your knowledge of the type of topics that come up in casual legal and business conversations. The answers to this quiz can be found in our Legal & Corporate News Roundup articles, which you can use to keep up to date with what's going on in the wider legal,…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup where we share headlines and brief summaries of notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. These roundup articles provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to date with current legal and business affairs. If you have…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup where we share headlines and brief summaries of notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. We intend for these roundup articles to provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to date with current legal and business…
Complete Overhaul of the UK Solicitor Qualification Process: Introduction of the Super-Exam
In what has been described in the U.K. as “the biggest shake-up in legal education in decades” the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) is set to change the way all UK solicitors qualify from 2021. Now that the UK Solicitors Regulation Authority (“SRA”) has confirmed what the new UK solicitor qualification process will look like, we’ve…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup. As with the previous week, we will share headlines and brief summaries of these notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. We intend for these roundup articles to provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to…
Law Society moves PPC1 2020 online
The Law Society of Ireland recently announced that it would be offering the Professional Practice Course 1 (PPC1) online. The decision to move the course online was prompted by ongoing fears around the spread of COVID-19. The 2020 PPC1 will start on 8 September 2020 and will be delivered online through a combination of recorded…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
This week's Legal & Corporate News Roundup round up includes news on the collapse of GDP in the EU & U.S., what the U.S. Federal Reserve is planning to do to help, how major banks are moving to online internships, and others.
How has COVID-19 affected corporate law firms?
As well as causing severe illness and death for hundreds of thousands of people around the world, COVID-19 has also heavily impacted virtually every sector of the economy. This article explores what that impact has been on corporate law firms, both here in Ireland and around the world. Lessons to learn from previous downturns Although…
Law Society announces additional sitting of FE-1 exams
The Law Society of Ireland recently announced that they will offer a sitting of two FE-1 subjects in August 2020. The announcement comes after the originally planned exams had to be postponed to comply with the government’s directions on social distancing amidst the COVID-19 crisis. The two exams are European Union Law and the Law…