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Trainee talk is brought to you by Browne Jacobson’s first and second year trainees. They will be sharing their trainee experience so that you can understand what it’s like to work here and to give you a bit more information about the journey to becoming a fully-fledged newly qualified solicitor!
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Back at school when dreaming of becoming a lawyer, I never imagined that I would be qualifying in house.
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At 14, I attended my first careers lesson and the usual happened. I was asked to turn on the computer, visit a website, answer various questions and out popped a career which I was apparently best suited to.
2019 marks 100 years since women were legally recognised as ‘persons’.
At Browne Jacobson we welcome applicants from all walks of life and want people that stand out from the crowd.
A question that gets asked every year by aspiring lawyers is whether to apply for a vacation scheme or apply directly for a training contract. There is a lot of information out there so why does this question keep getting asked? Probably because there is no definite answer and it will depend on circumstances and opportunities.
After speaking to hundreds of students about applications, I have grouped together the most popular questions to bring you my top tips on training contract applications.
Taking the leap from Commercial Property to Social Care within our Insurance and Public Risk (IPR) department, I ventured into contentious territory hoping to get an experience of what life is truly like as a litigator.
"Do you think you’ve got an advantage over the other trainees because you were a paralegal first?" - A question I often get asked by my peers.
This month’s trainee blog will be slightly different from previous ones, because your author is a newly qualified solicitor (NQ) and no longer a trainee.
I began my trainee life in the Birmingham Corporate team and within 48 hours I was dressed in a full dinner suit on my way to the Insider Dealmakers Awards at the Hilton in Birmingham.
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