A message from Professor Susan Edwards, Dean of Law at the University of Buckingham:

Following on from our very successful Careers in Law Conference last year, we are delighted to inform you that we are holding one again this year on Wednesday 24th June in our Chandos Road Building.

This Conference is aimed at Lower 6th/Year 12 students who might be considering studying Law at any English or Welsh University.  We know it is a matter of major concern to all students as to what career prospects there are after committing so much time and resources to a University degree.  I attach below an agenda for the day.  The aim of the Conference will be to give students some feel for Careers in the Law.  It will cover:

1.       The nature and uses of a Qualifying Law Degree

2.       What life at the Bar is really like.

3.       What life as a Solicitor is really like – the view of a newly qualified solicitor

4.       What opportunities exist outside the profession – the public and private sector

If you would like to take up this opportunity, could you please let us know by Friday 22nd May.  Please email your request for places, or indeed for any further information to: 

Concordia.soanes@buckingham.ac.uk

AGENDA

CAREERS IN THE LAW CONFERENCE

University of Buckingham, Chandos Road Building, Corner Chandos Road and Station Road, Buckingham

24th June 2015

09.45 – 10.15      Registration

10.15 – 10.30      Law Careers – Susan Edwards

10.30 – 11.05      Life as a Young Solicitor – Julie Vickers

11.05 – 11.20      Break

11.20 – 11.35      My Brush with Crime – Susan Edwards

11.35 – 12.00      Life as a Barrister - Jonathan Kirk QC

12.00 – 12.30      Working with a City Law Firm – James Slater

12.30 – 13.00      Lunch

13.00 – 13.40      Debate on Prostitution – Alistair Alcock and Susan Edwards

13.40 – 13.55      An Accidental City Career – Alistair Alcock            

13.55 – 14.15      Break

14.15 - 14.30       Working with the CAB - Ian Payne

14.30 – 14.45      Life as a Fijian Judge – Jocelynne Scutt

14.30 – 14.45      Outside the Law – Gavin Love

Confirmed Speakers:

Alistair Alcock, Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Buckingham, formerly an Investment Banker in the City

Susan Edwards, Dean of Law, Practising Barrister, 1 Grays Inn Square, London

Jonathan Kirk, Queens Counsel and Practising Barrister, Gough Square Chambers, specialises in Consumer Law and Financial Regulation

Gavin Love, Writer, editor and manager of various law publishing firms

Ian Payne, Deputy Bureau Manager, Buckingham & Winslow District Citizens Advice Bureau

Jocelynne Scutt, Barrister and Human Rights Lawyer, admitted to practise in Australia and England and Wales, Chief Judge and Employment Judge in Fiji

James Slater, Director of the Part-time LLB, Solicitor who formerly work with Clifford Chance in the City

Julie Vickers, Solicitor at EMW, Milton Keynes who qualified in 2013 after traineeship with Howes Percival, Northampton