Meet the Recruiter

Suzie Ingram

Graduate recruitment officer Suzie Ingram offers essential tips on how to impress during the recruitment process, as well as the many reasons why Shoosmiths is a great place to launch your legal career. 

Meet the Lawyer

Crown Prosecution Service

As a district crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Jason Corden-Bowen experiences a huge variety of work and responsibility. Read on to learn more about this rewarding and vocational career path.

Features

‘You’re hired’: educational innovation, apprenticeships and new career paths into the legal sector

Legal learning and graduate recruitment experts Nigel Spencer, Lucy Crittenden and Chloe Muir, all of global law firm Reed Smith, discuss the legal sector’s recent changes in educational policy and learning models, assessing the combined impact on pathways and recruitment into the legal profession.

Brochure library

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

What if Kirkland & Ellis is your future employer? Read on to learn more about trainee life at this dynamic, international firm.

LCN Says

How to use Twitter to further your law career

It’s no secret that everybody and their dog (literally) has a Twitter account to interact with friends and followers, and to post life’s most important updates: from what you’re having for dinner to your latest holiday snaps. But while you’re commenting on the most recent Love Island episode, law firms, barristers’ chambers and recruiters are also on social media, and there’s a chance that they could be seeing everything that you are doing.

Commercial Question

The Gig Economy – Uber and Deliveroo

How is the gig economy impacting employment status?

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Blogs

From the provinces to Essex Court: a mini-pupil's experience

As a ‘Northerner’ I’ve long felt it would be both beneficial and prudent to do a mini-pupillage in London - not least because, living outside our nation’s capital, it can be often difficult securing mini-pupillage.

Ask the Oracle

Starting a training contract: how to make a good impression

I start my training contract in September and was wondering how best to make a positive impression and to stand out from the crowd. Also, what should I aim to achieve in each seat?