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Top firms increasingly target vac schemers

23-May-2013 4:01 pm | By Becky Waller-Davies

More leading firms want to recruit trainees solely from vacation schemes, it has emerged.

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In-house training contracts power up

22-May-2013 10:22 am | By Becky Waller-Davies

Solar power company Lightsource has started offering training contracts after receiving Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) approval.

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Law students condemn pupillage auction

22-May-2013 10:13 am | By Becky Waller-Davies

Lawyer2B readers have condemned Westminster School’s recent auction of a mini-pupillage.

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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?

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Opportunities for Hong Kong graduates

23-May-2013

I am thinking of doing a Juris-Doctor programme in Hong Kong - how will this affect my chances with UK firms?

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Regional focus: Bristol

A strong link between firms and colleges makes the city a good place to forge a legal career

Manchester Trainees

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.