Your passport to a successful career Our dedicated Employability Team will provide you with as much guidance and assistance as possible in locating a training contract, pupillage, and graduate career opportunities.
Bridge to Practice Scheme We work with professional legal firms to provide a bridge to practice for our LPC students, by delivering a high-impact practical module tailored to the needs of trainees, ensuring that they are client-ready from day one. Students can undertake this as part of the Professional Legal Practice module on our LLM Legal Practice Course. We have worked with a wide range of firms on our Bridge to Practice module, including: • Ashurst • Browne Jacobson • Burges Salmon • Capital One • DWF • Eversheds • Freeth Cartwright • Gateley • Howes Percival • Lewis Silkin • Morrison and Foerster
Dedicated Employability Team At Nottingham Law School, our dedicated Employability Team provides a range of support services, including: • careers seminars dedicated to training contracts, pupillage applications, and interview techniques; • workshops delivered by practitioners from regional and national firms, chambers, and the judiciary; • individual presentations by international and regional practices, and chambers seeking to recruit trainees and pupils; • advice on the most appropriate combinations of elective subjects; • a mentoring scheme with trainees from local law firms to provide support and guidance and a personal view of what to expect from life in the profession; • dedicated careers advisers who will help you review training contracts, pupillages and placements; • advice on vacation scheme applications and formulate individual career plans; • regular updates about training contracts, pupillage and paralegal opportunities; and • an interview preparation service, including mock interviews. Mentoring Scheme We have set up a mentoring scheme in conjunction with a number of Nottingham law firms – including Eversheds, Browne Jacobson, Shoosmiths, Geldards, and Gateley – to provide support and guidance on gaining a training contract, and what to expect from a career in the legal profession.
• Osborne Clarke • Paul Hastings • Shoosmiths
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