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Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.

As inspirational spaceman Chris Hadfield returns to Earth, we blast off another newsletter packed with information and advice to help rocket your burgeoning legal career upwards (though not into the lifeless, dark vacuum of space, mind - our metaphor wouldn’t work). This week, the Oracle considers the pros and pitfalls of trying to paralegal your way to a training contract, while Legal Futures founder and distinguished legal commentator Neil Rose explores ABS ethics in a guest LC.N Says. There is advice on legal lingo in our Feature, while a Burning Question from CMS wires into UK electricity problems. We also bring News of this year’s TARA nominees, the first charity-established ABS and the SRA diversity survey. Happy reading!

PS Keep your eye on LC.N’s twitter feed for TARAs results as they happen. Exciting!

 

Meet the Recruiter


Alex Mundy - Dentons

Although very new to the job at Dentons, Alex Mundy has heaps of graduate recruitment experience and advice on how to impress (and what to avoid). Read on for her pearls of wisdom.

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Brochure focus


Weil, Gotshal & Manges

The classy black and white photography and brilliant green colour scheme of this brochure encourage you to stop a Weil and consider the merits of this exceptional firm.

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Burning Question


Keeping the lights on

What is being done about the problems regarding electricity supply/demand in the United Kingdom?

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Sponsored by CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

 

The Oracle


Paralegal my way into practice?

I know that it has become harder to secure a training contract these days, but I have also noticed that there seem to be increasing opportunities for paralegals: would becoming a paralegal be a more certain way of pursuing a career as a solicitor?

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Career Spotlight


Claire Slater - Bird & Bird

Working at Bird & Bird has allowed me to apply various elements of my scientific expertise.

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Features


Let's talk shop

Learn legalspeak in 10 minutes! OK, so we can't make you fluent, but what we can do is introduce you to the most useful words you'll need to know to be a lawyer.

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LC.N Blogs


All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Sean G

Revision has now taken over my life, but at least I’m safe in the knowledge that after 21May I won’t need to revise anymore.

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LC.N Says


The only way is ethics
Neil Rose

Was Tuesday [7 May 2013] the day we began to see the future a bit more clearly? Capital-infused alternative business structures with clear, market-dominating ambitions, using their financial clout to consolidate their markets?

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Take 5


In want of a wife?

Marriage is no longer a "truth universally acknowledged", but these five firms all practise family law in locations featured in Pride and Prejudice:

Brignalls Balderston Warren - Hertfordshire »
Flint Bishop - Derbyshire »
Bosley & Co - Brighton »
Buss Murton Law LLP - Kent »
Henmans Freeth LLP - Oxford »

 

Jobs

Thomson Reuters - Paralegal (real estate)

Multinational media organisation Thomson Reuters seeks a paralegal to support its editorial teams in the real estate division of The Practical Law Company (part of Thomson Reuters’ legal arm). Applications close Thursday 30 May.

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