Fletchers Solicitors & Legal Cheek - Panel/Networking event Thursday 3 March 2016

Please see link below for details of an event hosted by Fletchers Solicitors in Southport on Thursday 3 March.  

Fletchers Solicitors is a law firm based in Southport that specialises in the areas of Serious Injury and Medical Negligence.  To find out more about the firm please visit the website

Fletchers Solicitors

Attending this event will mean you are also considered for a place on the firm’s 4-week Summer Placement scheme in 2016.

The event is open to all students -- both law and non-law -- with applications from those based in the North West particularly encouraged. Fletchers is covering the cost of train fares to and from its Southport headquarters where the session will be held. 

For further details please see:

 http://hub.legalcheek.com/event/7

Still time to apply for a Spring or Summer Work Placement Scheme

It is not too late to apply for a Spring or Summer Work Placement Scheme although the closing dates are now coming up fast!

If your goal is to secure a training contract at some stage after your Law degree and you are currently in your second or final year, you might like to apply for Work Placements or, to use their more common name, Vac schemes. Some firms recruit their trainees solely from successful participants in their Vac schemes, so it really is worthwhile to apply.

The larger commercial law firms have opened their spring and summer Work Placement schemes for applications.  Most of the closing dates are mid to end of January or February 2016 although some firms will offer places before the deadlines so it can be worthwhile to apply early.

What's even better is that as well as a Work Placement looking good on your CV, you also get paid, usually between £250 and £350 per week!

For details of firms offering Work Placements and closing dates see:

Chambers and Partners
Target Jobs
LawCareers.Net


Good luck with your applications!

Law Commission now recruiting for September 2016

Happy New Year to all Law students!  

To start off the New Year, as always, the Law Commission is recruiting up to 18 Research Assistants to work for approximately 51 weeks starting in September 2016 in London.  The posts will be available in the following areas:

Commercial and Common Law
Criminal Law
Property, Family and Trust Law
Public Law
Statute Law Repeals

The Law Commission is a statutory body set up under the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed. 

Its aims are: 

To ensure that the law is fair, modern, simple and as cost-effective as possible 

To conduct research and consultations in order to make recommendations for reform for consideration by Parliament 

To codify the law, eliminate anomalies, repeal obsolete and unnecessary enactments and reduce the number of separate statutes 

The Law Commission is an independent non-departmental body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. Further information about the Law Commission and its work can be obtained from its website at http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/. 

The posts are on a fixed term basis, up to 12 months. 

Applications are now open for final year Law students and close on 1 February 2016. Interviews will take place between 14 and 24 March 2016.

Qualifications

The minimum criteria are that by August 2016 you should have completed two years’ full-time substantive legal studies (or the equivalent in part-time study). The results must be at, or at the equivalent of, first class or good 2.1 standard, with at least some elements of first class work.

Details of the posts are available in a separate guide for applicants, which you must read before applying, at:
http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/working-for-us/jobs.htm