LAW SOCIETY NEWS
The Law Society’s ‘Junior Lawyers’ website provides a number of extremely useful videos for graduates considering taking a postgraduate law degree. Some explore alternative careers and others look into wider choices and more political debates within the field of law. Here are two:
In the current economic climate, businesses are increasingly looking at bringing their legal work in- house. Therefore, if you’re planning a new year’s resolution to change jobs, why not consider moving into the employed sector? If you’re seeking a training contract, why not look outside the traditional private practice route?
This video provides you with guidance on how to pursue a career in-house for a company, a charity, or central government, through first-hand accounts from solicitors who have forged successful careers outside of private practice. You will also receive top tips on how to market yourself to prospective employers.
Our panel of speakers give you an insight into life working as a solicitor in a non-traditional law firm environment. Watch this video and learn about the opportunities for recruitment, career development, and promotion as an employed solicitor. The panel of speakers include:
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• Kat Gibson - employment
Alternative careers to private practice
This video provides junior lawyers with guidance on how to pursue a career in-house for a company, a charity, or central government, through first- hand accounts from solicitors who have forged successful careers outside of private practice.
and litigation counsel at Coca-Cola Enterprises. •
Sarah Wiltshire - solicitor, children’s services and family law at the Department for Education.
• Rachel Wellman - solicitor at Breakthrough Breast Cancer
http://juniorlawyers.
lawsociety.org.uk/ node/6614
The JLD has produced a video on judicial appointments for junior lawyers. The video is an introduction to judicial appointments, the range of judicial posts now available to solicitors and
how applying for a judicial post can be factored into a junior lawyer’s career planning and professional development. The presentations are from senior members of the judiciary who are themselves solicitors.
The speakers in this video are: •
Judge Alexandra Marks
• Tan Ikram - district judge (magistrates’ court)
Annalisa Checchi - JLD executive committtee
http://juniorlawyers.lawsociety.org. uk/node/4821
For more information visit: http://
juniorlawyers.lawsociety.org.uk
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