Meet the Lawyer

Mills & Reeve LLP

Alex Round enjoys the intellectual challenge and variety of practicing planning law within Mills & Reeve’s wider real estate team, while the leafy Cambridge location and the firm’s culture of cultivating a good work/life balance were also strong draws. Read on for an insight into life at Mills & Reeve.

Features

Here is a guide to joining an Inn of Court, the first step to becoming a barrister

You've got to be in it to win it - true of the National Lottery and true of a career at the Bar. As Inner Temple's Outreach Manager Struan Campbell kindly explains, thanks to the myriad of networking, scholarship and training opportunities on offer, there's much more to gain from joining an Inn of Court than a few posh dinners.

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Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Watson Farley & Williams is seeking excellence: if you’ve got what it takes, learn more about the practice areas, career progression opportunities and more in the firm’s 2018-19 brochure.

LCN Says

Our MLaw degree has prepared Pearson Business School for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam

Like them or loathe them, the new Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) are coming. Personally, I rather like them. Don’t get me wrong. I loved the GDL - both as a student at City University and as a lecturer and programme leader at BPP. I also have great affection for the LLB, having taught on and administered that course as well for several years.

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Blogs

What my mooting experience as a first-year non-law student taught me

One of the scariest moments of my first year at university was having to stand up in front of a room full of law students, knowing absolutely nothing about law apart from a few meagre cases that I’d look at briefly, and argue in a mock ‘court’ situation.

Ask the Oracle

Can I switch from solicitor to barrister?

I've always wanted to be a barrister, but now I think it seems more financially secure to train at a City firm and more likely that I would be able to secure a training contract, compared to a pupillage at a top commercial set. Would it hurt my career prospects of practising at the Bar to train as a solicitor before re-qualifying or transferring?