London

Please head to the conference room at 09.30. A topic is displayed on the main screen for you to discuss with the delegates at your table/the delegates sitting around you.

Claire Temple, partner and training principal at Cooley (UK), kicks off LawCareersNetLIVE London with her insights and advice for anyone embarking on their legal journey.

Our panel of top law firm partners will address the key issues affecting firms in 2023. This session will help delegates understand how firms operate as businesses and the role they will play as trainees. The panel will answer questions from the audience.

The panellists are:

• Rona Bar-Isaac – partner, Addleshaw Goddard
• Claire Temple – partner and training principal, Cooley (UK) LLP
• Peter Day – partner, Osborne Clarke LLP
• David Seymour – partner, Ropes & Gray International LLP

Your opportunity to speak with the firm representatives and your fellow delegates.

Firm-led workshops give you the chance to discover the work of a practising solicitor. From practice areas to practical skills, your workshop leaders will take you through the key issues and tasks of working in the City.

Workshops:

• Charles Russell Speechlys LLP: Putting clients first – how to build and maintain client relationships as a lawyer
• Kirkland & Ellis International LLP: Debt finance
• Osborne Clarke LLP: The metaverse in the legal landscape
• RPC: Insurance
• Trowers & Hamlins LLP: Legal technology and innovation – law firms of the future

Please note that lunch is served standing. This is your opportunity to speak to firm representatives.

Firm-led workshops give you the chance to discover the work of a practising solicitor. From practice areas to practical skills, your workshop leaders will take you through the key issues and tasks of working in the City.

Workshops:

• Addleshaw Goddard: Do you have an appetite to innovate?
• Baker McKenzie: International M&A
• Cooley (UK) LLP: Cyber/Data/privacy
• Ropes & Gray International LLP: negotiating commercial contracts
• Watson Farley & Williams LLP: Anatomy of an asset finance transaction

Your final opportunity to speak with the firm representatives and your fellow delegates.

Our panel of trainee solicitors will provide insight into their experiences of the law firm application process, what being a trainee is really like and their advice for prospective candidates. A representative from The University of Law will also be on hand to answer your questions about postgraduate study and employability.

The panellists are:

• Jemima Ford – second-seat trainee, Baker McKenzie
• Octavia Morgan – third-seat trainee, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• Rebecca James – first-seat trainee, RPC
• Diana Lupa – fourth-seat trainee, Trowers & Hamlins LLP
• Anna Clarke – first-seat trainee, Watson Farley & Williams LLP
• Poppy Davenport – LPC student, The University of Law