Work Experience Student Review

Listening to lectures from solicitors about their job role and the daily life of solicitors and group exercises working on developing legal skills such as critical thinking and forming arguments and presenting them coherently.

Communication skills, drafting skills, writing and reading legal documents, lease forms, team work skills, time management

It was a really enjoyable experience with lots of opportunities to hear from professionals, as well as network with other young people going through the same application process

Forage made the work experience programme very accessible and easy to see how the day would be structured. It was nice that all of the documents were on one website, rather than having to scroll through many different emails. Everything started and finished on time and ran very efficiently.

It was invaluable to hear about the work life balance of solicitors and their routes both into law and Pinsent Masons itself. I learnt a lot about opportunities on offer such as the vacation scheme and apprenticeship routes into a legal career.

I had not necessarily considered Corporate law as a viable career path for me as I did not know much about it, however the work experience has given me an in depth understanding and I am now very interested in being a solicitor

No

Lots of experiences to meet both trained legal professionals, supervisors and other work experience students

Yes

A very welcoming environment with an organised and thorough programme full of informative events

Make sure to really research about the firm and its ethos and be willing to get involved in discussions and group work projects