56 resources available for UK law students
Learn how Chambers and Partners ranks law firms using its band system, what each band means, and how to use rankings in training contract applications.
The PGDL (Postgraduate Diploma in Law) is the rebranded GDL conversion course for non-law graduates. Compare providers, costs and SQE alignment for 2026.
Learn about the four Inns of Court - Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple - their history, how to join, costs and qualifying sessions.
An in-house lawyer is a qualified solicitor employed by a single organisation rather than a law firm. Around a quarter of practising UK solicitors now work in-house. Learn what they do, who hires them and how much they earn.
Understand Assessment Centre in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Banking and Finance Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Barrister in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Billable Hours in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Commercial Awareness in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Competition Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Construction Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Corporate Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Due Diligence in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Employment Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Environmental Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
FLK1 is the first SQE1 paper: from January 2027, 170 single best answer MCQs (85 per session) in two sessions of 2 hours 33 minutes, covering business law, dispute resolution, contract, tort, legal system, constitutional and administrative law and EU law.
FLK2 is the second SQE1 paper: from January 2027, 170 single best answer MCQs (85 per session) in two sessions of 2 hours 33 minutes, covering property practice, wills and estates, solicitors accounts, land law, trusts and criminal law and practice.
Understand Intellectual Property Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Legal 500 in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Legal Aid in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Legal Apprenticeship in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Legal Executive (CILEx) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Litigation in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand LPC (Legal Practice Course) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Magic Circle in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Mini Pupillage in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Newly Qualified Solicitor (NQ) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Paralegal in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Practice Area in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Private Client Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Pro Bono in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Pupillage in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Qualifying Work Experience in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Real Estate Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Regulatory Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Seat Rotation in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Secondment in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Silver Circle in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Situational Judgement Test (SJT) in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Solicitors Regulation Authority in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
SQE1 tests functioning legal knowledge across FLK1 and FLK2. From January 2027 each paper has 170 single best answer MCQs (85 per session, 340 in total) taken over a full day in two sessions of 2 hours 33 minutes, with subjects grouped by session.
Understand SQE2 in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand SQE in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand STAR Method in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Supervising Solicitor in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Tax Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Technology and Data Law in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Trainee Solicitor in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Training Contract Deadlines in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Training Contract in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Training Principal in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Vacation Scheme in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.
Understand Watson Glaser Test in UK legal practice. Essential guide for aspiring solicitors covering definition, context, implications, and career relevance.