Essential reading for all those pursuing a legal career, the Handbook should be your ultimate guide to the various paths into the profession, offering in-depth advice and insights into what it takes to become a lawyer.
Contents | 4 |
Becoming a lawyer | 7 |
How to use this book | 9 |
Solicitor versus barrister | 12 |
Career timetable | 15 |
The legal scene | 16 |
Getting the best careers advice | 23 |
Diversity in the legal profession | 26 |
Choosing where to apply | 28 |
Key competencies | 31 |
Commerical awareness | 33 |
Application technique | 37 |
Interview technique | 40 |
Scotland and Northern Ireland | 44 |
Alternative careers | 46 |
Work experience | 53 |
Work experience 2 | 54 |
LawWorks | 59 |
The Free Representation Unit | 62 |
Vacation scheme insider reports | 65 |
Postgraduate training | 89 |
Postgraduate training 2 | 90 |
Financing the vocational courses | 95 |
Course directory | 99 |
Solicitors | 105 |
The Law Society and the Junior Lawyers Division | 107 |
The Solicitors Regulation Authority | 109 |
CILEX | 112 |
Becoming a solicitor | 115 |
Career timetables solicitors | 118 |
Types of law firm | 121 |
Solicitor practice areas | 123 |
Banking and finance | 124 |
Capital markets | 126 |
Commercial | 128 |
Commercial property | 130 |
Competition | 132 |
Construction | 134 |
Corporate finance | 136 |
Corporate tax | 138 |
Crime | 140 |
Dispute resolution | 142 |
Employment | 144 |
Energy and natural resources | 146 |
Environment | 148 |
Family | 150 |
Human rights | 152 |
Immigration | 154 |
Insurance | 156 |
Intellectual property | 158 |
Islamic finance | 160 |
Personal injury | 162 |
Private client | 164 |
Restructuring and insolvency | 166 |
Shipping | 168 |
Sports | 170 |
Technology | 172 |
Training contract directory | 175 |
How to use the training contract regional indexes and directory | 176 |
Training contract regional indexes | 177 |
Channel Islands | 178 |
East Anglia | 179 |
East Midlands | 182 |
International | 186 |
London | 190 |
North | 205 |
Northwest | 208 |
Scotland | 214 |
Southeast | 216 |
Southwest | 226 |
Wales | 231 |
Yorkshire | 238 |
West Midlands | 234 |
Training contract directory | 245 |
Barristers | 389 |
The Bar Council | 390 |
The Bar Standards Board | 393 |
The Bar Council's Young Barrister's Committee | 395 |
Becoming a barrister | 398 |
Career timetable: barristers | 400 |
Types of chambers | 402 |
Bar practice areas | 405 |
Admiralty and shipping | 406 |
Chancery | 408 |
Civil | 410 |
Commercial | 412 |
Common law | 414 |
Competition | 416 |
Construction | 418 |
Crime | 420 |
Employment | 422 |
EU and international | 424 |
Family | 426 |
Housing/landlord and tenant | 428 |
Human rights | 430 |
Immigration | 432 |
Intellectual property | 434 |
Personal injury | 436 |
Planning/environment | 438 |
Professional negligence | 440 |
Property | 442 |
Public | 444 |
Revenue | 446 |
Technology, media and telecommunications | 448 |
Pupillage directory | 451 |
How to use the pupillage index and directory | 452 |
Pupillage index | 453 |
Pupillage directory | 465 |
Useful information | 515 |
Glossary | 516 |
Useful addresses | 522 |
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