AN EXCELLENT CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE TO SUPPORT YOUR SUCCESS
A LARGE AND VARIED PRO BONO PROGRAMME Our pro bono programme offers numerous placements for you to gain exposure to life as a lawyer through supervised experience or from shadowing practitioners, giving you an extra opportunity to enhance your career prospects. You’ll have the chance to participate in legal advice centres, helping to answer legal enquiries from the general public and gaining valuable first-hand experience of client relationships, legal research and drafting. Our Streetlaw and public legal education programmes raise legal awareness in communities through outreach activities. With our external placements you’ll get to experience helping real clients in a real working environment. We’ll help you to obtain placements in a range of not-for-profit organisations which provide members of the public with free legal advice and representation. We arrange various shadowing opportunities throughout the year to give you the chance to see and experience what it’s like to be a solicitor or judge first-hand.
With a team of over 30 experts, we have one of the largest legal careers and employability services in the UK. Our bespoke one-to-one guidance from a team of specialist career advisers offers you a service that can lead to a great start to your career. We also work with approximately 600 external lawyers who, we believe, bring a wealth of experience to our mentoring programme. SPECIALIST EMPLOYABILITY PROGRAMMES Our Student Employability Programme and Professional Employability Programme are designed to help you take your first steps towards your future as a successful lawyer and further explore aspects of the workplace. Through various activities, including interactive workshops and personal planning exercises, our programmes aim to give you the chance to develop the foundations of a successful career in the real world.
*97% of our full-time 2016/17 and accelerated 2017/17 LPC students graduating in summer 2017 secured employment, a training contract, or further study within nine months of successfully completing their course.
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