Every year Derby Law School work in partnership with Derby and District Law Society to host the hugely popular Annual Legal Skills Triathlon. The Triathlon sees 8 paralegals/ trainee/newly qualified solicitors from local firms partnered up with a LL.B student…
Category: Careers & Employability
Hannah Plush: My Experience of the National Client Interview Competition
The Client Interviewing Competition for England and Wales is a great opportunity for law students to develop their client interviewing techniques whilst getting advice from some of the best academics and practitioners in the country. When I was first approached…
Darlingtons: The Modern Day Lawyer
by Iulian Baijko Craig Sharpe, marketing manager at Darlingtons Solicitors LLP, has recently delivered a careers event entitled “The Modern Day Lawyer”. I can honestly say that this was not your usual “talk” which many law firms tend to organise…
Congratulations…
A few congratulations to do this week. Congratulations to Tanya Kirman for successfully being appointed to the role of Paralegal at Nelsons Solicitors. Congratulations to Gemma Wood for her unconditional offer for BPP Birmingham to do the BPTC next year.…
Barrie Archer: Perspectives from a Mature Student…
I returned to education in 2016 after a while, ok quite a while ago! I left school in 1987 and yes I am older than most of the cases you are currently learning. Now education back in my day was…
Magistrate; Moot Master; Marshal and Mini-Pupil: Enhancing Employability
By: Philip Cowburn – 3rd Year In January 2017, in my second year and at age 19, I was appointed by the Lord Chief Justice on behalf and in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Justice…
So, You Want to Be a Teacher? by Sim Malhi
“To Teach Is to Learn Twice” – Joseph Joubert On Wednesday 28th February, Shirley Hewitt, programme leader of the PGCE came in, to deliver a talk on the routes to becoming a teacher. The talk was given alongside of a…
Matthew Bettany on Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition
When I heard that the “Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition” was a thing in my first year, I immediately decided I wanted to do it. I love competitions and it’s the competitive nature of law that draws me to it.…
Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition: Congratulations Nicola and Matthew!
Congratulations to Nicola Briers (Third Year) and Matthew Bettany (Second Year) for their outstanding performance in Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition. According to founders, Hertfordshire Law School, ‘The National Criminal Advocacy Competition involves students undertaking a series of mock trials…
Perspectives of a Law Student: Remus Mihailescu
My name is Remus and I’m currently a third year law student at Derby Law School. I have recently been successful in obtaining a training contract with Weightmans LLP, a top 45 UK law firm, achievement which required much dedication,…