‘I always knew that I wanted to make the most of lockdown. I wanted to treat COVID-19 as an opportunity, and use the pandemic to increase my advocacy and employability skills’. Weronika Kolodziej, Campus Ambassador for BARBI International, outlines how she took control of her employability over lockdown and set up her own virtual advocacy competition.
Category: Student Success
Obtaining a Scholarship for the Bar – Katie Goldstraw
One of the challenges to becoming a barrister can often relate to funding. Katie Goldstraw is a recent first class graduate of Derby Law School who is now studying the Bar Practice Course LLM at the University of Law, Manchester as a Headridge Scholar from the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. In this blog, Katie gives her insight into the scholarship process as well as some tips on how you too can be successful in achieving your goals.
Surviving Law: Student Skills Masterclass Scheme
Alexander Wood During the induction week and the first week of teaching the Student Skills Masterclasses Team delivered our first session to the Foundation, First and Second year Law Students. This talk consisted of the team (Alexander Wood, Barrie Archer,…
Gianluca Baldissone: Derby Internship
A big part of development at university, I believe now, is to take advantage of extra-curricular opportunities that are offered. One of the vocational offers at the university that I took advantage of was the Employment Engagement Intern role. This…
Demos Georgiades: European Parliament Internship
My name is Demos Georgiades and I am a final year law student at University of Derby. Recently, I have been successful in my application for an internship in the European Parliament in Brussels. My passion in law combined with…
Lorraine Obomanu: The Legal Skills Triathlon
The Legal Skills Triathlon is an annual competition hosted by Derby Law School in conjunction with Derby and District Law Society. It consisted of eight teams of legal professionals partnered together with LLB students. Each team participated in three activities:…
Lucy Schofield: My Week at Astle Paterson Solicitors
To be able to spend a week placement at Astle Paterson Solicitors in Burton is truly an experience I will never forget. My week began on Monday 26th March. I do have to admit, I was feeling extremely nervous. Being…
Leah Cooper: Peer Assisted Learning Scheme
“I would describe the Pal Scheme as a student led skills based teaching scheme. Basically we were selected because of our grades last year and have been put together to deliver 4 one hour sessions to the first years. After…
Annual Legal Skills Triathlon
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…
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.…