How to Find Solicitors in Sevenoaks
Social media is all about staying on people’s radars. As a student, you are unlikely to have a business card. If you go to an event and meet an interesting speaker or a partner at a law firm you are interested in applying to, you might send them a polite email thanking them for their time and their talk. But what next? How do you follow that up several months later so that they still remember you when you hand in your training contract application?
Tucked away in the new year’s press was an announcement of an apprenticeship route to qualification as a solicitor. I wondered why and when the profession abandoned the five-year article route.
Over the years there have been, as there is now, a number of different routes to train and qualify as a solicitor. Before 1980, there was a Part One examination for school leavers and non-law graduates following a one-year course for school leavers or optional six-month course for non-law graduates. All candidates took the Part Two examination after an optional six-month course.
A touch of the January blues? Considering packing the profession in? Obiter has come across a website that offers inspiration and guidance just for that.
Set up by brother and sister lawyers, leavinglaw.com suggests a wealth of alternative careers, starting with air traffic controller. Apparently you need ‘attention to detail’ and the ‘salaries can be pretty good’.
Other options include consultancy, the police, psychotherapy and teaching, to name but a few.
In my experience, an in-house lawyer is a different breed from those working in other sectors. In-house teams are small and their visibility within the business results in a constant flow of queries that require immediate attention. An in-house lawyer is expected to make decisions with the business people. Strong commercial acumen and an ability to offer practical business solutions are essential.
There was a distinct sense of déjà vu about the sense of déjà vu I felt at the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium in Manchester last week.
The LETR, sponsored by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and Chartered Institute of Legal Executive Professional Standards, is billed as ‘the most fundamental review of legal education and training for a generation’.
And yet surely, I thought to myself, I’ve heard all this before – and before and before and… You get the picture.
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