Each year the clinic hosts a series of free events around topical issues in the legal sphere. This year we are looking at alternative routes into practice and developing the skills you need to make the leap from law student to practitioner.

With the recent introduction of the Bar Training Course, the new SQE route to qualification as a solicitor, not to mention the disruption to careers plans caused by the Covid pandemic – we will be looking at how lawyers past, present and future make their way into the law and the alternative and sometimes inventive ways of being a ‘lawyer’ in the 21st century.

The programme will consist of a combination of panel discussions, Q&A sessions and practical skills workshops covering advocacy and client handling.

At the end of the programme, participants will be given a bundle of case material and have the opportunity to prepare advocacy and conference tasks which will then be assessed in an online ‘face-to-face’ setting in September 2022.