Early Careers

Specifically, we aim to help those still at Secondary School or in their early, post-School career phase to make the initial career path decisions, broadening their understanding of what different career paths in law look like, and also offering a series of resources and tips to help them to gain initial career positions.

One piece of our early work in this area since 2020 has been Re-Imagine Law, a podcast series which offers support in four areas:

• Skills: advice and guidance on which skills can assist at the early career stage, and practical guidance on how to develop these capabilities.
• Career pathways: insights on the different career paths available within the legal sector, ranging from solicitor to barrister or judge, international careers, or those who have taken different career paths (outside law) and then come into the sector as a “second career”.
• Understanding different legal roles: a series of episodes which aims to de-mystify what different legal roles do. What is a typical “day in the life” of different people in the legal sector?
• Industry insights: other episodes explore a number of current and future issues in the legal sector ranging from shifts in the use of technology in legal proceedings to understanding legal practices as businesses, and how the sector is working to achieve higher levels of inclusion.

Skills for future legal services practitioners

Another current area of focus in the “Hub”, working with colleagues at Fractal Knowledge, is to consider the skill-set which future legal practitioners will need as the legal services market evolves rapidly in an increasingly digital world.

See our current thinking in this area of “future legal skill-sets” for law students and more senior practitioners.