Registration and networking breakfast
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.
Welcome
Keynote speaker
Question Time: The law firm as a business
Our panel of top law firm partners will address the key issues affecting firms in 2027. 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.
You’ll hear from:
- Bethan Moore – corporate restructuring and advisory partner at Shoosmiths
- Steve Dunseath – dispute resolution and litigation partner at Trowers & Hamlins LLP
- More TBC!
Networking and refreshments
Your opportunity to speak with the firm representatives and your fellow delegates.
Firm-led workshops
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.
Delegates will select one of the below workshops and will be emailed confirmation of their workshop choice ahead of the event.
- ‘How Shoosmiths real estate shaped Manchester’ with Shoosmiths
- ‘Legal due diligence’ with Ward Hadaway
- ‘Property disputes’ with Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Networking lunch
Please note that lunch is served standing. This is your opportunity to speak to firm representatives.
Firm-led workshops
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.
Delegates will select one of the below workshops and will be emailed confirmation of their workshop choice ahead of the event:
- ‘Get a FrESH perspective: environmental, safety and health practice’ with Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP
- TBC – Addleshaw Goddard
Networking and refreshments
Your final opportunity to speak with the firm representatives and your fellow delegates.
Question Time: Life as a trainee
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.
You’ll hear from:
- Isy Moir – trainee solicitor at Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP
- TBC – Addleshaw Goddard
- TBC – Ward Hadaway