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Law Careers Events Programme Guide 2014/15
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Sponsors of the Law Careers Events Programme Guide 2014/15 South Square is a leading set of commercial law barristers, widely acknowledged as the best at the bar for insolvency and restructuring work. Our reputation for excellence extends to our specialist expertise in related areas, including banking, financial services, company law, trusts and asset tracing, and general commercial litigation. Our members have been at the forefront of many of the most high-profile commercial cases of the last decade, including Lehman Brothers, MF Global, the Bernie Ecclestone litigation, the LIBOR litigation, Eurosail, Madoff Securities and Stanford International. A significant proportion of our work involves international elements and members regularly appear in cases overseas, including in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Dubai. As a pupil at South Square you are welcomed into all areas of chambers’ life. In return for your commitment, we provide you with a carefully structured programme designed to train and equip you for successful practice in a dynamic, forward-thinking and challenging environment. Our pupils sit with a different supervisor every six weeks, exposing you to our varied practices and working styles and enabling you to get to know more of our members. We seek to recruit ambitious individuals with exceptional potential. Up to three 12-month pupillages are offered each year, each currently carrying an award of £60,000, from which we look to retain at least one tenant. This year we took on both our pupils. Please do come and speak to us at the City Law Fair on 15th October 2014 where we can answer your questions about life at the bar and opportunities at South Square.
With best wishes, Martin Pascoe Head of Pupillage Committee, South Square
We are delighted to present the Law Careers Events Programme 2014/15. It has been designed to give you an insight into a range of career options and the skills you will need to successfully apply for work experience, training schemes and graduate jobs within the legal sector. You will have numerous opportunities to hear from and network with a range of professionals, legal practitioners, employers and alumni from The City Law School. This guide contains an overview of the central law careers events at City in the autumn term and a snapshot of what is coming up in the spring term. The programme has been designed in collaboration with The City Law School for both undergraduate and postgraduate Law students as well as students from other disciplines who are interested in pursuing a career in law. To view the full event details, including locations and speaker information, and to register your attendance, please log into City CareersHub, City’s central careers portal, using your City username and password. A link to City CareersHub is available at www.city.ac.uk/careers/for-students-and-recent-graduates.
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Events Programme 2014/15 Thursday 9th October 2014, 6 to 8pm
Monday 13th October 2014, 11.30am to 12.30pm
Careers with a Law degree panel event
Clifford Chance – Skills session – What makes a good application form
Studying law, you develop a range of transferable skills highly valued by employers. It is an excellent degree to give you a choice of career options. This event aims to help you explore your career options inside and outside the legal sector and make informed career choices. You will have the opportunity to listen to high profile speakers, who studied law but have pursued very different careers, and find out how transferable skills, developed throughout a law degree or law conversion course, can be utilised in various jobs.
In addition to this programme, there are many other careers events taking place at City. These include: Employability Skills Tuesdays, industryspecific panel events, Careers Workshops, mock assessment centres, mock psychometric tests and Employer in Residence sessions.
Visit www.city.ac.uk/careers for further details.
A member of the graduate recruitment team at Clifford Chance will share essential application advice to help you understand key selection criteria and increase your chances of securing a vacation scheme and/or a training contract.
Monday 13th October 2014, 1 to 2pm (Northampton Square) Tuesday 14th October 2014, 9.30 to 10.30am (Gray’s Inn) Preparation sessions – Making the most of the Law Fair These sessions will cover researching exhibiting organisations prior to the Fair, successful networking and how to make a good impression on the day, the Fair from an employer perspective, how attending the Fair can help you make your application stand out if you apply to one of the exhibiting organisations and what you can expect from the Fair depending on your year and level of study. Students who register and attend one of these sessions will be given a fast-track pass which will allow priority entry to the Law Fair during the first hour (1.30 to 2.30pm).
Wednesday 15th October 2014, 12 to 1pm Lawyer 2B Legal Landscape talk The legal landscape is changing rapidly. This talk will highlight the current developments, what the future might look like and what students can do to best position themselves. You will be given an overview of potential career paths and some options you might not have considered.
Wednesday 15th October 2014, 1.30 to 4.30pm (1.30 to 2.30pm: priority entry with a fast-track pass)
Have you heard of The City Law School’s Pupillage Advisory Service? The service provides advice, information and assistance to City’s BPTC students who are looking for or have already obtained a pupillage. Each year members of the service also organise careers events for aspiring pupil barristers which are open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students from The City Law School.
The City Law Fair This annual event is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet numerous representatives from law firms, barristers’ chambers and other organisations. Pick up a copy of the University’s Law Fair guide from CityCareers in Drysdale Building or your School Office to read exhibitors’ profiles and prepare for the day.
To find out more, visit www.city.ac.uk/law/careers/ career-support/pupillageadvisory-service-pas/events. Follow the Pupillage Advisory Service @CLSPupillageAdvice
Thursday 16th October 2014, 6 to 8pm The City Law School Alumni Careers Clinic Is your career goal to become a solicitor at a commercial law firm? This Careers Clinic is an opportunity to receive one-to-one cv or application advice and feedback from The City Law School alumni who are now practising solicitors in a commercial setting.
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Thursday 30th October 2014, 2 to 4pm and 4 to 6pm
Thursday 6th November 2014, 6 to 8pm
Clifford Chance Intelligent Aid Competition workshops
Commercial awareness at all stages of a legal career
Participate in the Intelligent Aid Competition run by Clifford Chance to win a place on their vacation scheme.
This event will consist of a series of presentations from a range of high profile legal practitioners, followed by the opportunity to ask questions and network.
These interactive workshops have been designed to help you submit an effective answer to the Intelligent Aid Competition question. The competition, open to all students, is an alternative pathway to gain experience with a global law firm.
Friday 31st October 2014 Norton Rose Fulbright evening In partnership with Aspiring Solicitors, Norton Rose Fulbright will be hosting an evening event at City featuring an overview of their recruitment process for students interested in securing vacation schemes and training contracts. This will be followed by informal networking. Aspiring Solicitors is an organisation dedicated to increasing diversity in the legal profession by providing students across the UK access to law firms through workshops and events. You can find out more and register for opportunities at www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk.
Attend this event to gain an in-depth understanding of what commercial awareness is, how you can show that you have it and find out why commercial awareness is so important in the legal sector at all stages of a legal career.
Thursday 20th November 2014, 6.15 to 8.30pm Eversheds LLP – Interactive litigation event International law firm Eversheds LLP will provide guidance on negotiation techniques for lawyers. This is an important legal skill used daily by commercial lawyers in both resolving disputes and agreeing legal documents. As part of the evening, trainee solicitors from Eversheds will run a short competition enabling you to see how you would fare in the heat of a contested negotiation.
Off Campus Careers Events Each term there are open days and presentations held at law firms and barristers’ chambers. Find out more on the off campus careers events listing on City CareersHub.
Future Events – spring term Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 6 to 8pm
Wednesday 4th February 2015, 3 to 5.30pm
The City Law School networking reception – alumni and current students
Interactive Merger and Acquisition (M&A) workshop for City students at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
This is a fantastic opportunity to meet your predecessors who have embarked on successful careers in law or outside the legal sector.
The objectives of this workshop are to familiarise you with the basic issues arising out of merger and acquisition processes, to explore how the commercial objectives of the client can affect these issues and to outline the processes involved.
This event aims to help you: • Explore a range of career options • Make more informed career choices • Build career and skills development plans • Develop your networking skills.
The interactive workshop will be based on pre-reading and a case study which will see you complete a bid sheet and work in teams, acting in the role of the client instructing that team.
February 2015 Non-commercial lawyers panel event This event is ideal for students intending to work in non-commercial law as well as those considering their career options. It will consist of a series of presentations, followed by the opportunity to ask questions and network. Speakers will share their personal experiences of how they approached employers and the recruitment and selection process. They will provide advice on how you can get to where they are today and tell you about their work and the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen fields. The exact date and time of this event will be confirmed later in the autumn term.
More events will be confirmed throughout the year. Keep an eye on City CareersHub for updates.
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“An unrivalled collection of the best talents currently at the Bar� Legal 500
Pupils are drawn to South Square for our reputation as a top commercial set and the opportunity to learn from leading lights at the Bar. Our barristers advise on a wide range of commercial disputes and have acted in many of the most high-profile insolvency, restructuring, banking, company and fraud-related cases of recent times. We are looking to meet exceptionally talented and ambitious candidates for our various pupillage programmes. Visit us at the City Law Fair to find out more.
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