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Posted on 30 September 2013

The CityLawLIVE conference on Friday 6 December 2013 offers students who fulfil top firms’ academic requirements (the unavoidable first step) the chance to bolster their ability to satisfy this challenge by taking part in an intensive, interactive, high-level day with a group of top firms and other, similarly gifted candidates. We look at:

  • the City in context;
  • the function of legal services within it;
  • the legal economy;
  • the life of, and opportunities available to, the best lawyers; and
  • how to launch oneself into this world.

Central to the event is a series of collaborative presentations by our 10 sponsor firms – each attendee at the conference will attend one of five firm-led sessions either side of the lunch break. These workshops hope to showcase:

  • how commercial law works in practice;
  • how firms serve their clients; and
  • the daily challenges faced by lawyers at the cutting edge.

There is also plenty of time to network with all the firms’ recruiters and to meet those who can offer real insight into law in the City and how to become part of it!

The event sponsors are: Baker & McKenzie, Clyde & Co, CMS Cameron McKenna, Edwards Wildman, Norton Rose Fulbright  SJ Berwin, Taylor Wessing, Weil Gotshal & Manges and The University of Law.

Firms’ tend to believe that candidates who have the potential to thrive can do so if they prepare and drive themselves forward. CityLawLIVE is a fantastic chance for the best students to gain a vital edge in the battle to win the most prestigious training contracts. The event is inevitably oversubscribed, so we operate a competitive selection process for places that reflects the way firms recruit, using the most dominant selection software in the market (Apply4Law). Candidates must display an academic record that will satisfy a top firm, as well as displaying the type of motivation that suggests they are in with a genuine chance.

Find out more at www.citylawlive.com, which offers information, interview videos and a link to the application form, and via Twitter (@CityLawLIVE).

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