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Learning law in England and Wales
Board’s website, or one of the many law careers sites, such as AllAboutLaw or LawCareers.net. All students must complete both the academic and vocational stages of training. Academic stage Most non-graduates complete the academic stage of training by obtaining a law …
Enhancing and promoting student skills: pro bono and CV development
covering letters across a broad range of careers suitable for a Law school graduate. In this way, the website demonstrates to the student the significance of particular skill sets for specific careers. Furthermore, the website showcases the various workshops and events organise…
Twin peeks at career expectations
to explore career motivations and legal careers in general.…
Boosting the life cycle of the law teacher: from rookie to academic rock star
their past, present and future academic careers to help aspiring and new law teachers learn the secrets of success in the legal academy. Participants responded to questions about their own careers in law teaching and assessed the factors that have enhanced or detracted from th…
Chair's report: Amanda Fancourt
at an early stage in their undergraduate careers. …
Enhancing employability in law schools
means that the law school has to liaise with Careers and talk through links at the course validation stage. There is also an annual law careers forum, attended by members of the local chambers, firms etc who talk about careers in law and what they want. De Montfort University…
General transferable skills: project rationale
term. Statistics for finding out what alternative careers law graduates enter are very difficult to determine. The 1997 report of the Policy Studies Institute Survey on entry into the legal profession provided findings on what happens to law students unable to obtain a tr…
Enhancing the employability of law graduates
learning development LAGREN offers students careers guidance (drop in sessions, one-to-one interviews, workshops), work experience (placements, freelance work) and customised training (City Fringe paralegal/outdoor clerk training course plus intensive careers guidance). Duri…
Ladders 2 Law: e-mentoring aspiring lawyers
Ladders 2 Law library, with news items, careers advice and features. For further information on the Ladders 2 Law project contact Tracy Sacks on e-mail: tracy.sacks@thebrightsidetrust.org. Law is an increasingly competitive discipline, both at the university admissions and v…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
early by engaging with the school’s careers counsellors, providing first year law support programmes and linking students to people who can help, involving law alumni and the legal profession in mentoring and buddy programmes, as judges in competitions and in giving semina…
The link between quality legal education and student pastoral care: the Queen Mary experiment of ‘graduate student advisers’
management, note taking, essay writing, careers, adapting to university life, work-life balance, debt issues, accommodation concerns, and personal issues. The GSAs operate by conducting regular weekday three-hour ‘surgeries’, where students can drop in and seek confidential …
Legal Practice Course
includes reports on courses, or the Law Careers.net course search page. AllAboutLaw’s LPC section includes profiles of the providers and a range of articles about becoming a solicitor, while QED Law publishes information about LPC pass rates at each of the providers. T…
Enterprise in Law
Career Management (Glamorgan) – included a careers session raising awareness of entrepreneurial skills in legal environments Law and Society (Glamorgan) – students looked at the concepts of enterprise, entrepreneurship and the ethical entrepreneur, and their importance for…
General transferable skills: student perceptions
would have established themselves in their careers. In addition, some focus group discussions were held for trainee solicitors in Leeds, Sheffield and London. Although small scale, these two exercises give some general indications of the way general transferable skills an…
Bar Professional Training Course
the Bar Standards Board website or the Law Careers.net course search page. AllAboutLaw’s BVC section includes profiles of the providers and a range of articles about becoming a barrister, while QED Law publishes information about BVC pass rates at each of the providers. …
Are your students bore-ing?
Core and Elective subjects, Research and Careers. The format is usually three main categories – the top picks of websites, commentary, and ‘hot docs’. Commentary can include speeches as well as articles from both free and subscription sites. Users can adapt a p…
Challenges of teaching law to non-law students
profession. My students graduate to proceed to careers in diverse sectors of the real estate industry, such as valuation, property and facilities management, estate agency, property research and consultancy and real estate brokerage. In the midst of this myriad of difficulties…
General transferable skills: University of Leeds
supported through the students union and careers service in articulating skills development, but there is as yet no specific personal development log used to assist students in analysing their skills development within the law department, as in other departments. Preparation …
The use of empirical legal research in the undergraduate curriculum
are not only focused on professional legal careers but they lack broader training. With limited research skills, law graduates considering academic careers naturally gravitate toward what they know – doctrinal topics and issues. There is thus an almost inevitable pattern o…
General transferable skills: University of Exeter
can relate to both non legal and legal careers. The skills are integrated in the substantive law subjects and are also dealt with in workshops where students are given the opportunity to participate in negotiation, report writing exercises and so on. The course is geared to…
Is legal education working?
methods and systems), assessed through a careers management portfolio and a reflective log. Delivered using both classroom and online activities, the module aims to develop student acquisition of subject specific and generic study skills, careers management awareness, reflective…
General transferable skills: University of Reading
other professions; for example through the careers service. Students are also required to take a discipline other than law in the first year, and students may take a further non-law paper in finals. Specific skills module or integration of skills? There is an intensive …
Pathways to the Professions
the relevant professional bodies to run careers days events and act as role models for applicants, and liaised with local authority and careers staff to work with schools in the local area to establish identification criteria for academically able students. Pathways to the leg…
How do law students decide where to apply to?
websites University visits/open days Careers/university fairs Attendance at lecture(s) or other events at the university Books providing guides to university courses Guidance from UCAS Press reports including league tables Advice from school/college Advice from c…
General transferable skills: University of Birmingham
the degree are beneficial for many other careers such as the ability to read, think and argue. When developing students’ skills we bear in mind that professional skills such as drafting, client communications, interviewing and negotiation are taught on the LPC programme…
Sefton Bloxham
“Reflective Learning, Skills Development and Careers Management online – An Evaluation of a 1st Year law module”, Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT) 2007 (1). Bloxham, S.M., Maharg, P. & McKellar, P. (2007), VLEs in legal education a case study appro…
Achievement, attendance and attitudes of first year business students: their effects on success at the University of Brighton Business School
Publishing. She has also worked for East Sussex Careers and spent some time working in further education. More recently, she has been working at the University of Brighton Business School where her particular responsibilities are to teach on the Academic Skills program and to ac…
Practitioner perspectives on legal education and training
preparation for being a lawyer, the importance of careers and the absence of ethics Outcomes Legal education as vocational preparation – final report (RTF file, 84 pages, 688 KB) …
General transferable skills: University of Newcastle
that, as well as being prepared for legal careers, students are also being prepared equally for non-legal careers by being made aware of the transferability of those skills they have developed. Specific skills module or integration of skills? Skills are taught/learned i…
Review of the Legal Practice Course
(download below) Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) (download below) Association of Law Teachers (download below) Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS) (download below) Society of Legal Scholars (download below) Julian Webb, Univer…
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SLSA postgraduate conference 2011
Every year the SLSA organises a popular postgraduate conference in January. The conference is aimed at those starting out in their careers who may need guidance on issues such as: completing their postgraduate research; getting their work published; finding their first academic j...…
From Northumbria to Bologna: Alternative routes to qualification in law
The professional bodies are aiming to encourage alternative and more flexible routes to qualification as a lawyer. Employers in general are becoming more vociferous about the expectations that they have of graduates. Law schools, in the light of increasing student numbers and dwi...…
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