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Top firms increasingly target vac schemers
More leading firms want to recruit trainees solely from vacation schemes, it has emerged.
In-house training contracts power up
Solar power company Lightsource has started offering training contracts after receiving Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) approval.
Law students condemn pupillage auction
Lawyer2B readers have condemned Westminster School’s recent auction of a mini-pupillage.
Editor's Picks
Pupillages are go!
With the pupillage gateway having had some teething problems dealing with all those pesky applications, and sets like Charter Chambers and now 39 Essex Street abandoning the 2014-15 pupilage round - granted for very different reasons - the race to secure a pupillage keeps getting tougher. Is there still a number for international rescue?
Opportunities for Hong Kong graduates
I am thinking of doing a Juris-Doctor programme in Hong Kong - how will this affect my chances with UK firms?
Opinion
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G(irls)20 Summit
On the 14th June, girls aged between 18 and 20 will gather in Moscow as delegates for the fourth annual G(irls)20 Summit, an event that brings together representatives from each G20 country, as well as from the European Union and African Union.
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Why paying for pupillages is bad for the bar
Auctioning work experience places to the highest bidder is an inherently unfair system
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Learns the lessons of disasters
With global profits should come global corporate responsibility
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Collyer Bristow supports its support staff
Collyer Bristow gives support staff the opportunity to shine
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Can new Act clean up libel law?
New Defamation Act’s demand that claimants prove serious damage first could end the gravy train of McLibels
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International outlook of trainees threatened
Changes in immigration policy are making it increasingly difficult for firms to recruit immigrants as trainee solicitors.
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Jury trials are tangled in the web
If the judiciary can’t keep pace with technology, US-style closeted juries will become the norm
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Subversion of JRs is unjustified
Restricting the judicial review process is a constitutional matter and has nothing to do with cutting red tape
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Targets miss point of diversity
Prematurely promoting women to fulfil board quotas lets down those who are there on merit
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Cut the gap
In an attempt to save £350 million a year the coalition government has launched a full frontal attack on access to justice, says Alan Russell.
Insight
Pounds for pupillages
Auctioning internships is becoming more common, giving students from well-off backgrounds a significant leg-up into highly competitive professions, including the law
Tonic for the troops
Law firms often appear to focus their training efforts on the newbies to the legal profession, but increasingly programmes target mid-level associates
Tech flight: April deals roundup
IT was the place to be in April, with Shearman involved in the sale of the ‘Chinese Twitter’ and Hogan Lovells in on the biggest corporate bond offering the world has ever seen, at Apple
The Voice
“It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it.’ Cases in court, business pitches and political speeches can be won and lost according to how you speak. Professional public speaker and presentation coach Luan de Burgh of the de Burgh Group offers some advice on using your voice to engage, persuade and inspire.
60 Second Interview
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Georgia Hicks
Devereux Chambers pupil Georgia Hicks has learnt that you’ve got to remain resilient, support your client, and not show quite how disappointed you are.
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Lee Malam
LPC student Lee Malam considers that the disappointments encountered on the training contract hunt can be a blessing in disguise.
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Sarah Rees-Leonard
After a career as an art specialist TLT trainee Sarah Rees-Leonard wanted something to promote commercial thinking and relationship building across a range of sectors.
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Hannah Diss
Dentons trainee Hannah Diss says that it doesn’t take long to realise that selling legal services is almost as important as the law itself.
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Catherine Gifford
This University West of England LPC student is working part-time to fund her studies and wants to be part of Bristol’s fast developing business community.
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Georgiana Applegate
Trainee solicitor Georgiana Applegate gives an essential insight into working at TLT.
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Lisa Jordan
The biggest challenge for Irwin Mitchell’s graduate recruitment partner Lisa Jordan is finding enough time in the day to be a good manager and partner, a good lawyer for clients and still ‘switch off’ at the end of the day.
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Faye Duhamel
Faye Duhamel, a GDL student at BPP Law School, feels that studying a subject other than law at undergraduate level has given her a wider range of skills and knowledge.
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Rory Trust
Former journalist Rory Trust is now a trainee at Burges Salmon - while the hours and competition for jobs are similar the pay and career prospects in law are much better.
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Harriet Dare
The research and analytical skills GDL student Harriet Dare developed in her History & Politics degree have been very useful on this demanding course.
Regional Reports
Regional Focus: Belfast
The pace of change in the Northern Ireland legal sector was, until a couple of years ago, sluggish at best. Now, having weathered the financial storm, Belfast now resides as the beating heart of developments in the law and there is still more to come.
Regional focus: Bristol
A strong link between firms and colleges makes the city a good place to forge a legal career
Regional Focus: Manchester
The smooth transition from student to professional life makes Manchester popular with trainees
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South Africa report - Commonwealth Mooting Champions 2013
One of the many rewards of having won the ESU/Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition was being selected to represent the United Kingdom at the 2013 Commonwealth Moot.
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One year in law reform
My first ‘proper job’ following graduation has been at the Scottish Law Commission (SLC) in Edinburgh.
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Political animal
During my first-year undergraduate studies in Constitutional Law, I decided to apply for an internship which would provide me with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how the European institutions work and interact, how legislation is made and passed, and the implications of this for the United Kingdom.
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Rising tax stars
Having been an intern in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s tax department, I had the unique chance of experiencing the day-to-day life of a city law firm within one of the biggest tax teams in the UK.
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Mooting - behind the spotlight
Mooting can be an excellent way of boosting your CV - but you don’t have to moot to enjoy the benefits the activity brings. James Roden talks us through some of the ways he found to use the experience even when he wasn’t mooting.
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Born in Baghdad, raised in Paris, studied in London, in love with Dubai
Mays Jubair, trainee at Pinsent Masons in Dubai, says future lawyers should look to the UAE
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An eye for tax
The Future Tax Stars Programme at Berwin Leighton Paisner offered me a unique opportunity to get first-hand experience of working in a leading tax department in a law firm. I was one of three interns, and we were assigned a different mentor depending on the area in tax we were focusing on.
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Melbourne - finding the energy
All Holman Fenwick Willan trainees have the opportunity to spend a seat in one of the firm’s fourteen international offices, and the third seat of my training contract took me about as far away from London as geographically possible.
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Mediation demonstration
LLM student Chinelo Awa attended the International Chamber of Commerce’s mediation competition and talks about making the most of the opportunity.
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Madrid moves
One of the major attractions of a Linklaters training contract to me was the opportunity to spend one or more of my seats abroad, and I am now approaching the end of my secondment to the Capital Markets department in Madrid.
