The Lawyer’s sister title Lawyer 2B is this week hosting a careers event for promising A-level students attending state sixth form colleges who are ­interested in training as solicitors and barristers.

The Lawyer’s sister title Lawyer 2B is this week hosting a careers event for promising A-level students attending state sixth form colleges who are interested in training as solicitors and barristers.

The two-day diversity event, now in its second year, is being held at Kaplan Law School and is being attended by Year 12 students from the Government’s ‘Young, Gifted and Talented’ programme. Law firms sponsoring the event this year include Addleshaw Goddard, Bircham Dyson Bell, Clyde & Co, CMS Cameron McKenna, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hammonds, Linklaters, Mayer Brown, Norton Rose and Simmons & Simmons.