Lack of Law
What Types of Legal Work Experience Can I Get?
Training Contract/Pupillage
The top goal: these count as qualifying work experience for solicitors (facilitation your qualification as a solicitor) and pupillages are effectivly an apprenticeship with that chambers
Vacation Schemes/mini pupillages
This is a solid step in the door for that firm/chambers or others, you will complete a short period of work experience and often be fast tracked to interview for training contracts/pupillages
Insight schemes/open days
These help you demonstrate your interest in that area of law or that place of practice and help you land vac schemes/training contracts and pupillages (mini and big) in the future
The sheet to beat all sheets
I think every aspiring lawyer knows how draining it is to sift through work experience opportunities on firms' and chambers' websites, trying to decipher whether you, with your non-law studies, will be accepted.
NO MORE
This sheet condenses them all into one, colour coded depended on the section of law and with a seperate sheet for solicitor and barrister opportunities.
Now for both Barristers and Solicitors!
So... How do I Make a Succesful Application?
Transferable skills
Learn how to make all the skills you aready have, from that weekend job at maccies, being a prefect at school and helping out at your town craft fair into desirable skills employers want!
Show an Interest
No point hiring you if people don't think you're interested! Here's how to truly demonstrate your interest in the role through research
Work Experience, without work experience?
"Do I need legal work experience to land work experience?" NO! But there are ways of gaining work experience, without applications, without all that faff to impress employers, prove your interest and further your own knowledge!