International law firm Trowers & Hamlins has set up an in-house academy for CILEx training. Nine staff currently employed as paralegals and team assistants at the firm have been selected to enrol on courses with CILEx Law School following a competitive internal application process. Students based in London, Manchester and Birmingham will follow the CILEx Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice.
CILEx Law School candidates studying through our clients’ in-house academies have delivered excellent results in the June 2015 exam session.
Thirty-six members of staff from the BBC’s commercial, rights and business affairs department are working towards CILEx qualifications in the context of a new in-house scheme set up with CILEx Law School. The training will be delivered by CILEx Law School and includes face-to-face and webinar teaching alongside distance learning and qualifying employment.
The Bar Standards Board is to introduce new training for its support staff in the English Legal System. Many staff within the BSB already have legal qualifications, but the new training, to be delivered by CILEx Law School will be offered to those in roles which do not specifically require existing legal qualifications.
The Government has today approved new standards, which will allow apprentices to qualify as a Chartered Legal Executive, solicitor or paralegal. The standards meet the requirements specified by ILEX Professional Standards Limited (IPS) and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for qualification as a Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor.
Field Fisher Waterhouse's Step2Success programme, which offers post A-Level students a pathway into a legal career with the firm, has taken on its inaugural intake of recruits. They will commence their CILEx Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice through CILEx Law School shortly after starting work.
European law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse is launching Step2Success, a school leaver programme for post A level students.
Minster Law, the UK’s largest Road Traffic Accident (RTA) personal injury practice, has joined the ranks of other large legal businesses that are turning to the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) and CILEx Law School to develop their employees.
The Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) will be providing paralegal training for one of the country’s biggest law firms as part of a three year contract. Irwin Mitchell has turned to ILEX and CILEx Law School to tailor a programme with the firm to ensure its paralegals are among the best trained.
National law firm DWF has recruited its first 6 legal apprentices who will join the firm’s pioneering Paralegal Academy. The Academy developed for all levels of Paralegals will provide the apprentices with a career path into the legal profession as an alternative to attending university. The first intakes of Legal Apprentices have joined as Administrative Assistants this week.
