Work Experience Student Review

The work experience mainly involved presentations and some interactive work. The presentations were on a wide range of topics, ranging from application and interview tips to an insight in different areas of law and business - like commercial awareness and street law. The interactive sessions allowed us to discuss and debate the situation at hand.

From the interactive sessions, I really learned how to communicate properly in a legal setting, and use my own knowledge and the internet to apply that in a law environment. It helped me be really insightful when doing tasks and thinking outside the box to come to an answer on topics I have never encountered before and wouldn't know what to do (having no prior law knowledge)

I really enjoyed the work experience - it was very well planned out and organised, and each day flowed really well in the topics that were presented and the tasks that followed. I really enjoyed the interactive tasks the most, as they let me have a really good insight into the thinking and discussing behind it all.

It was very well-organised and planned out - the timetable we were sent was really helpful and the actual content flowed really well and all fit in very well. Even though it was online it didn't really make a difference and even then it was very well-organised and insightful.

I learned a lot about the company culture and what it would be like to work there, as the videos we watched were really informative about Pinsent Masons as a company, and different presentations about diversity at the firm and other topics really helped me understand the culture at the company.

My work experience really helped me in deciding my future career path as it gave me an insight into the legal profession and showed me how the law is really applied. the different presentations gave me an insight into various different aspects of the law which has helped me narrow it down.

No

There were loads of opportunities for networking and meeting people, as there were many question and answer presentations and we met a lot of different people through meeting our mentors and being able to ask them questions. As well as this, when we were in our interactive groups we were able to discuss amongst ourselves, and the final networking lunch was very helpful in meeting everyone too.

Yes

I would recommend Pinsent Masons to a friend because I really like the culture at the firm, and the tasks and organisation was really up to par. The presentations were very insightful and interesting and the tasks we did gave us a great insight into the legal profession - it was very helpful

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