Life moves pretty fast...
To keep you up-to-speed with the rate of change in the legal world, the weekly bulletin this week offers you a quick guide on how graduates can help law firms be a part of the ever expanding social media sphere. You also get a look at Monckton Chambers, a chambers that seems to be thriving in the brave new world created by the Legal Services Act.
We also have a survival guide for those seeking paralegal work, a focus on banking & finance by White & Case, two blog posts on international experiences, a profile of Wragge & Co’s Carly Davies, and an Ask Lawyer2B on whether to defer a training contract in favour of a round-the-world trip.
In News, the College of Law has come under fire from students over the loss of exam papers while also launching a combined LLM/LPC. While Linklaters offers students the chance of a trip to Hong Kong.
The ten per cent: law firms and social media
A recent study paints the legal sector as being slow to warm to social media. Lawyer2B’s new reporter Becky Waller-Davies takes a look at the industry and asks how graduates could contribute to law firms’ tentative steps towards social media.
Get set, go
Do you want to know what makes a top chambers tick? The Lawyer’s Katy Dowell looks at the rise and rise of Monckton Chambers.
Survival Guide - Paralegal
Because of changes in the way law firms conduct business, the number of paralegals is expected to grow by at least 18% by 2017 - here’s a rundown on the benefits of paralegalling and how to become one of them.
Blog - Two blog posts with an international flavour this week
Jason Tema the president of Keele University law society talks about what it was like to secure a summer placement in Hong Kong while Shearman & Sterling trainee Marco Moraes tells us about his Brussels secondment.
Practice Area focus - Banking & Finance
As we all know, banks are in the money business; they accept our deposits, invest them in a wide range of financial products and make both themselves and us a profit in the process. But ever wondered what banking and finance lawyers actually do? Here we explore what it’s about; with a peek at the working culture and the skills required to practice in this field.
60-second interview
Wragge & Co trainee Carly Davies warns students about spelling mistakes and the infamous Wragges’ Mars Bar cakes!
