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The City Law School hosted a drinks reception to recognise the achievements of its students, who have been awarded scholarships and prizes, on Wednesday 3 December.

The event allowed students to meet some of the donors who give funding for the School's scholarships and prizes annually. The scholarships and prizes provide financial support to students, at all levels of their legal education, to aid them in their studies and reward their achievements.

Check out the full story and the prize winners here.

Posted by Site Admin on 9 Dec at 12:01pm

The City Law School provides world-class legal education in the heart of London. Offering an impressive range of academic and professional courses, it is the first law school in London to educate students and practitioners at all stages of legal education. The City Law School holds and attends a number of events each year, each including a range of carefully planned activities that enable you to:

* Find out about our courses
* Meet staff and current students
* Meet representatives from the professions
* Tour our buildings and see our facilities first-hand
* Ask any questions you have face to face
* Get involved…!

Visit us at an event near you or come in and see us…Download our flyer (PDF) for further details of the Law Fairs we will be attending and the Open Days / Evenings we will be holding in 2008/9; or visit us at www.city.ac.uk/law.

Find out how you can win the latest Wii Sports fitness package by filling in the questionnaire on the flyer and returning it to The City Law School.

Posted by Site Admin on 21 Nov at 3:25pm
Penny Cooper of The City Law School is celebrating the publication of All you need to know about being a Trainee Solicitor co-written with Elizabeth Cruickshank and published by Longtail Publishing.

This unique new book will help trainees successfully navigate the first few years of their legal career. Punchy, informative and full of insights it will teach newly qualified solcitors the things they can't learn at law school. Packed with examples and advice it will become the survival guide for those either considering or starting a legal career.

The book's authors have a combined 40 years of experience in Law as qualified lawyers and have written numerous legal titles.

For more information, download a flyer. To purchase the book please contact Longtail Publishing directly, ask at your nearest law bookshop or purchase through Amazon by following this link...
Posted by Site Admin on 21 Nov at 3:17pm

As you can see we've made a big update to Lawbore, based on your feedback from the last six months.

Back again on the front page are our classic topic icons, allowing you to easily browse our directory of links. There's a cool slider you can use to move between the different areas easily, so the icons don't take up so much space as before.

The directory itself has been reworked to allow you to browse items more quickly. Just click any link and its details appear immediately on the same page, without having to keep going backwards and forwards in your browser.


There's also a new RSS feed for our topic guides, so you can see any new links we add, the moment they get added. Click the orange RSS icon to subscribe in your favourite reader software.

If you have any feedback on the new features and/or you discover a bug or a broken link, please post on our forum or drop us an email! We always listen to what our users say.

Posted by Site Admin on 6 Apr at 4:00pm
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