Discover career opportunities and get career advice with Mayer Brown. RSVP now to express your interest and secure your place by email to asia.recruit@mayerbrown.com on or before 28 December (Wednesday). 4-6pm HK Time

We would like to invite the students of Warwick University Law School to apply to our upcoming virtual coffee morning at Trowers and Hamlin's Birmingham office on Wednesday 12 January 2022. The morning will involve talks by the graduate recruitment team and partners. There will be a Q&A and a networking session afterward. To apply we ask that students send a copy of their CVs to graduates@trowers.com.

This webinar will be chaired by Chief Executive Lindsay Scott and presented by both members of Chambers and the staff team, and provides help and guidance to those interested in applying for pupillage at 39 Essex Chambers.

A series of short presentations from Heads of Chambers, pupil supervisors, barristers from the different areas of law practised at 1GC.

Your Body Parts and the Law with Professor Imogen Goold

Do we own our own body parts? What can we do with them? Can we sell them and control what others do with them? People often say, "it’s my body", but the law is much more complex. This lecture explains the law on body part ownership, tracing it from the early legal cases through the body-snatching years of the Victorian period, to the present day. Should we use the law of property to regulate human tissue?

Quadrant Chambers will be holding a virtual speed moot for law students and society members. The event is open to any students who are thinking of applying for pupillage during the 2023 pupillage round. First prize is £150 Amazon voucher. Second prize is £75 Amazon voucher. Find out more.

Hybrid Seminar Programme 'How to...' with New Square Chambers. Session on how to moot.

Email events@newsquarechambers.co.uk with your name, the session you would like to attend, whether you want to attend in person or virtually, and any reasonable adjustments.

Get more information about our main areas of practice (planning, environmental, property and public law) and about pupillage at Landmark Chambers. Hear from a diverse range of Chambers’ members on their areas of expertise and ask our Pupillage Committee questions about the pupillage application process and the structure of pupillage itself. If you would like to attend, send an email requesting a place to pupillage@landmarkchambers.co.uk. We have eighty places available and they will be offered on a first come, first served basis.

Free to attend. A virtual information event for anybody considering a career in teaching or who would like to hear more about how to take the next step on their teaching journey.

Bright Network provides ten fantastic societies with national exposure and up to £2,000 in funding to help drive forward their efforts!

Keen to find out more about the Awards and whats involved? Join us as we talk to past Undergraduate of the Year winners and finalists who will be sharing their tops tips and their secrets for success and find out how you could be following in their footsteps to become one of the next targetjobs Undergraduate of the Year winners!

Michelmores are pleased to announce their open day for 2022. This session will give you an insight into life as a trainee at Michelmores, find out more about our training contracts and practice areas, plus speak to our current trainees and new qualified solicitors about everything from the application process through to their journey with us.

Hear from three barristers from leading chambers who successfully made their way through this hyper-competitive selection process. The trio — from leading sets Gatehouse Chambers, Henderson Chambers and Radcliffe Chambers — will share their experiences and advice to an audience of aspiring barristers on how to navigate the process of securing pupillage.

In this webinar, Clare Feikert-Ahalt will review laws from the United Kingdom that are often considered odd. From carrying ladders and flying kites on the streets of London, to drunkenness in pubs, sheep riding in cars to laws against extravagance, the webinar will cover a variety of odd laws, providing both citations to the laws, the background to them and how the police handle the enforcement of them.

Terror and the Rule of Law with Professor Thomas Grant QC

In this series of three lectures I will show how the rule of law can be subverted, and the law abused, to further the aims of privileged elites.

Our Bootcamp for second and third-year law students. With crucial information broken down into bitesize presentations, plus plenty of time for networking with top law firms, the Bootcamp is aimed at those making law firm applications in 2022. Find out how you can make a successful law firm application, how to research law firms, and what commercial awareness means in practice.

Hybrid Seminar Programme 'How to...' with New Square Chambers. Session on how to debate.

Email events@newsquarechambers.co.uk with your name, the session you would like to attend, whether you want to attend in person or virtually, and any reasonable adjustments.

Interested in a career as a Barrister? Why not come along to a virtual mini-series hosted by The University of Law’s Future Pupil Programme Coordinator. This session provides an overview of the bar, the options of how to get there and what the University of Law Bar Professional Course offers students.

The question of reparations has a long and contentious history. Reparations were part of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, with payments made to slave owners for their economic loss. These payments compounded and entrenched wealth and power in many institutional and family names familiar today. Conversely, the issue of reparations to families, communities, and populations who lived through or continue to experience the deprivations and racism entrenched by chattel slavery have been fiercely contested.

Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation: Analysing Special Purpose Acquisition Companies.

Author: Dr Daniele D'Alvia is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Daniele is a Teaching Fellow QMUL and a module convenor at Birkbeck.

With BPP University Law School. Unsure about the different funding options on offer for the SQE? Then make sure to secure your place at NEXT WEEK's virtual student event exploring the core questions around funding the SQE.

Join us virtually for a panel discussion, to learn more about the summer Internship Program and how you can be successful in the recruitment process at LinkedIn. At this event you will hear all about the roles, benefits, and perks of working for LinkedIn and you will hear from our current graduates who will share their experiences of the program.

The event is free to attend and open to students of all genders at any stage of legal study who are interested in a career at the Commercial Bar. The event will take the form of a panel discussion where some of the female barristers at Quadrant will discuss the reality of life at the Commercial Bar. They are at differing stages in their careers, from pupils and new tenants through to our new female Head of Chambers, Poonam Melwani QC. They will give a range of perspectives on their work, the challenges and rewards and how the career affects their work/life balance. The discussion will be followed by some smaller breakout sessions for a more informal fireside chat, where you can ask questions and get some first-hand knowledge of life at the Commercial Bar.

Former WLS student Jake Schogger is offering our students free access to this webinar.

Jake Schogger (ex-Magic Circle lawyer, career coach and City Career Series founder) and Peter Watson (ex-stock broker, head hunter and founder of Watson's Daily) will be providing a summary of the key current affairs and trends from January 2022, including insights from a business, markets and legal perspective.

Alison Peyton, Marketing Manager at Vantage will talk you through how to prepare in advance for assessment days (both virtual and in-person), and her top tips for the day/interview itself.

Session on what to expect from the world in 2022, delivered by Carol Osborne, Training Principal and Practice Group Leader for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s (BCLP) Technology, Commercial & Government Affairs team, and her colleague, Chris Bryant, Antitrust and Competition Partner in BCLP’s White Collar, Antitrust, and International Trade department.

If you would like to know more about Anthony Collins Solicitors and whether we are the right firm for you, we would encourage you to attend our virtual open day on Wednesday 2 February 2022. This is held each year and is for anyone thinking about training at Anthony Collins Solicitors. If you are interested in attending, you can apply by submitting a copy of your CV and covering letter to openday@anthonycollins.com by Friday 21 January 2022.

Decentralized Finance: Opportunities and Risks. Speaker: Dr. Alexandros L. Seretakis Assistant Professor in Law, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, IALS Visiting Research Fellow.

Former WLS student Jake Schogger is offering our students free access to this webinar.

Four ex-City lawyers will talk openly about: Their journeys into private practice; What they liked and didn't like about being a lawyer; Why they left the City; What they're doing now (journalism in Beirut, crypto at Revolut, founding and advising start-ups, legal tech at Avvoka, working in-house - our panel represents all these careers!); How their legal education and training has helped in a non-legal context; What they wish they had done differently when exploring careers... and more, including an interactive Q&A.

The Brixton Riots: Policing the Black Community in the Last 40 Years with Professor Leslie Thomas QC

This lecture series will explore the dynamics of race, class and power in the legal systems of the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean, how those systems have been shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how the legal system plays a dual role as an instrument of oppression and as a means for the oppressed to defend themselves.