Manchester

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.

Debra Cooper, partner at Shoosmiths, kicks off LawCareersNetLIVE Manchester 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:

• Catherine Fearnhead – partner, Addleshaw Goddard
• Jonathan Patterson – managing director, DWF Group Plc
• Shara Pledger – senior associate, Pinsent Masons LLP
• Debra Cooper – partner, Shoosmiths

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 a law firm.

Workshops:

• Clyde & Co: Catastrophic injury
• Gateley Legal: Cross-team collaboration across a legal and professional services group
• Pinsent Masons LLP: The life of a transaction
• Squire Patton Boggs: Party People – International M&A

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 a law firm.

Workshops:

• Addleshaw Goddard: Do you have an appetite to innovate?
• DWF Group Plc: Banking
• Hill Dickinson: What does being a healthcare lawyer really involve?
• Shoosmiths: Real estate: the heart of every business

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:

• Esme Haberman – first-seat trainee, Clyde & Co LLP
• Sam Blewitt – Gateley Legal
• Joel Bailey – third-seat trainee, Hill Dickinson LLP
• Harry Jackson – Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP