A LARGE AND VARIED PRO BONO PROGRAMME
THE EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE SUPPORTS STUDENTS THROUGH ALL PHASES OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
Our pro bono programme offers an extensive range of chances to gain exposure to life as a lawyer through supervised experience or from shadowing practitioners, giving you every 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.
JOHN WATKINS
With our external placements you’ll getto experience helping real clients in a working environment. We’ll help you obtain placements in a range of not-for-profit organisations which provide members of the public with free legal advice and representation. We arrange hundreds of shadowing opportunities throughout the year to give you the chance to see and
OF OUR LPC STUDENTS ARE EMPLOYED WITHIN 9 MONTHS *
experience what it’s like to be a solicitor or judge first-hand.
(LEFT TO RIGHT) NATASHA FOX Senior Employability Assistant, JOHN WATKINS Employability Director, ADITI MIRSA Careers Consultant, ANNITA SOPHOCLEOUS Alumni Employability Co-ordinator ULAW EMPLOYABILITY TEAM
*96% of our full-time LPC students who passed the course in the summer of 2016 were known to have secured work, study or training contracts within 9 months of graduating.
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