Legal Work Experience

Legal Work Experience
Just legal work experience?
We know we need legal work experience so what's new?
By Christmas of your first year everyone realises the need for work experience and preferably legal work experience. You might have ended up here looking for information on vacation schemes, mini-pupillages or pro-bono, but this section is for other types of legal and non-legal work experience why it can be important and how to get it.

These articles give common sense advice with the added benefit of personal experiences of work experience during the undergraduate degree and you can read more work experience articles here.

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Marshalling - what is that?
An excellent idea
For those of you who are not aware, marshalling involves shadowing a Judge. Ordinarily one can marsh...
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Hunting for work experience
What can you do and why?
Benefits of Gaining Work Experience. Most employers expect graduates to have some experience of the ...
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A Guide to Legal Work Experience
What you should be doing...
The legal sector is an extremely competitive occupational area with over 18,000 potential students a...
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Building up your legal work experience
How important is work experience?
Academic achievement alone is not the key to gaining a career in law. The key to success is the comb...
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Boost your CV
Work Experience
If you are interested in pursuing a legal career, it is important to gain some practical experience ...
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