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LawCareers.Net tells you everything you need to know to begin your career in law whether you are looking for a training contract to become a solicitor or a pupillage to become a barrister or if you want to find out more about the paralegal or legal executive route. Read more »

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Meet the Recruiter

Emma McAvinchey and Jen Hulse
Hill Dickinson LLP

Fans of Pulp and Fleetwood Mac, respectively, there's no albatross round the necks of grad rec gurus Emma McAvinchey and Jen Hulse. This way for application advice of a Different Class. Read profile »

Burning Question

The budget for business

What does the 2014 Budget Report mean for businesses? Read answer »

Features

A how-to guide to researching firms

Law firm research may not be the most thrilling of topics (or activities), but it's impossible to net a training contract without it. Here we give you a handy guide to that much talked about but rarely explained concept and reveal just why it's so important.

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Blogs

The bank robbery: breaking down legal jargon
Rumpole Jnr

As a criminal defence solicitor, the majority of my clients, if not all of them, are people who left school without any qualifications or who didn’t even go to school in the first place.

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Recent news

16/04/2014
Criminal Bar Association votes to accept legal aid deal

15/04/2014
Majority of Bar pupils in 2011-12 enrolled on BPTC without having landed a pupillage

14/04/2014
Macfarlanes joins Clifford Chance and Mayer Brown in adopting CV-blind recruitment policy

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Upcoming events

16/04/2014
BPP Law School Q&A: Oscar Pistorius - the trial, the trial

16/04/2014
LPC question time

23/04/2014
The University of Law (London Bloomsbury) open day (GDL and LPC)

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Josie Norrie
Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd

University of Manchester
Solicitor

The supervising solicitors recognise your personal strengths and interests while steering you through the challenges of the contrasting areas of law practised at the firm. I feel fortunate to have had the support and encouragement of such approachable and knowledgeable colleagues.