London Met runs inaugural "Get Into Law" day as part of new mentoring programme
updated on 18 May 2015
On 23 April London Metropolitan University welcomed a variety of representatives from the legal profession to the law school for its first ever "Get Into Law" day, designed to advise students on how to get ahead in the profession.
Judges, solicitors, a barrister and a paralegal all took part in the event, held to celebrate the end of the university’s first Law Mentoring Programme. The programme aims to encourage and support students from underrepresented groups to get into postgrad study and the legal professions. So far, the programme has helped over 60 under mentees work with 38 LPC mentors, who in turn were mentored by 25 solicitors.
The day included seminars on new routes to qualification and CILEx, and concluded with a networking session and the presentation of excellence awards to seven of the programme’s participants.
Beverley Risotto, coordinator of the programme, said: "It is encouraging that well over 50% of participants were from underrepresented backgrounds; given that in recent years there has been a big initiative to ensure greater equal opportunities within the legal profession, it is fantastic that London Met is supporting this drive."
The programme will start again in September 2015.
