Virtual

Your chance to meet the sponsoring law firms. They’ll be prepared with core information about who they are and what they do.

Alexandra Gower, partner at Osborne Clarke LLP, will deliver the keynote speech.

Our panel of top law firm partners will address the key issues affecting firms in 2024. 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:

• Jennifer Wheater, international counsel – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Alexandra Gower, partner- Osborne Clarke LLP

Following directly on from the ‘Question time: the law firm as a business’ panel, this is your chance to speak to the panellists, talk about issues raised in the panel and get to know some more firms.

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.

• Birketts LLP – A passport to an international legal career
• Osborne Clarke LLP – The metaverse in the legal landscape
• TLT LLP – Future energy

Meet the sponsoring firms again and come prepared with your questions to find out more.

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:

• Sena Guvercin, Michelmores LLP
• Harriet Kelsall, TLT LLP
• Freya Patten, The University of Law
• Kathryn Knight, Birketts LLP

Following directly on from the ‘Question time: life as at trainee’ panel, this is your chance to speak to the panellists, talk about issues raised in the panel and get to know some more firms.

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.

• Burges Salmon LLP – Planning & CPO
• Debevoise & Plimpton LLP – Private equity and private funds
• Michelmores LLP – BNG and the natural capital economy – what developers can do to get ready and what it means for lawyers.

Final networking will take place in your workshops.