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Becoming a lawyer as a career changer

Career changers and mature candidates can make great lawyers. Many solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers value the transferable skills and experiences that career changers bring, with some explicitly encouraging career changers to apply. Read on to learn how you can make the change from your old career into law.

Career changers: how can I fund my legal studies?

I’m 40 years old and interested in changing careers. I want to become a solicitor but don’t know what my funding options are, can you help?

Lynette Wieland - Championing social mobility and disability inclusion in the legal profession

Lynette Wieland

While many firms indicate their solidarity in improving social mobility and disability inclusion in the profession, among other diversity strands, what is the profession – as a whole – doing to break down the obstacles faced by aspiring lawyers from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities?

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Your commercial news round-up: Meta, Lego and Queer Eye, Manchester City, Bitcoin

As the second week of January draws to a close, recapping on the previous year’s top commercial news stories is a great task for aspiring lawyers. Which stories are still relevant? Are you up to date on how Bitcoin is performing? What’s happening in legal tech that you should be aware of?

The conundrum of outsourcing

To outsource or not to outsource? That is the (commercial) question

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SQE1 results: “landmark day in legal education”

Thursday 20 January 2022 is the first results day for part one of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). Candidates who sat SQE1 in November 2021 received their results at 3:00pm today via their SQE candidate accounts.

Your commercial news round-up: Amazon, Caffè Nero, 5G, AA

Happy Thursday! It’s time for the LawCareers.Net commercial news round-up.

LawCareers.Net x The University of Law Bootcamp 2022 – register now

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Useful firm content

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Meet the Recruiter

Ellie Ballinger

Find out how you can submit a successful application to Slaughter and May with advice from Ellie Ballinger, the firm’s trainee recruitment executive.

Meet the Lawyer

Corporate associate Emily was attracted to studying law by the variety of potential subjects and the problem solving skills required. She now works on strategic M&A for public and private companies. Read on for more detail on her work at this global elite law firm.

Brochure Library

Brochure: Vinson & Elkins RLLP

The proud US heritage at Vinson & Elkins means that trainees are not treated separately, but as junior members of the team from day one. Find out more about the international-quality work opportunities on offer at this leading firm.

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First-year students

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Law apprenticeships

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LCN blogs

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Max Alexander-Jones

In this blog I will look at whether it is possible to litigate social media, with a focus on body image issues.

In my previous article, ‘POV: you're a graduate non-law student with no training contract’, I wrote about what circumstances led me to pursue a Master’s in Law (LLM) online, from home, to convert my English undergraduate degree.

Everyone has their own reasons for choosing to study part-time while working. Maybe it’s financial, you can maintain an income while getting your qualification.

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