Aspiring solicitors

Aspiring solicitors work with law firms and legal teams to provide opportunities for aspiring solicitors from diverse backgrounds and to enhance diversity and inclusion within the legal profession. Their programmes for students and graduates include coaching, mentoring, events, work experience and competitions.

Bright Network

Bright network connects members with the opportunities, insights and advice to succeed in the workforce. They’ve partnered with over 250 leading employers including Accenture, Aldi, Bloomberg, Civil Service Fast Stream, Clifford Chance, Deloitte, Dyson, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, M&S, Morgan Stanley, Police Now, Teach First, UBS and Vodafone. They aim to connect members to employers across all sectors through innovative events, insightful and rich content and personalised advice.

Legal cheek

Legal Cheek is well known for its student events, virtual law fairs, annual Awards and legal education and training conferences. They provide a combination of news, analysis, careers advice and insider insight on the leading law firms and chambers operating in the UK.

Forage

Forage is a platform that offers bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career advantage with Fortune 500 companies. These include Clifford Chance, White & Case, Linklaters, Clyde & Co, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, and Latham & Watkins.

Rare recruitment

Rare recruitment offers a programme called Rare Foundations: Law which is an exclusive programme that will distinguish participants from their peers in an increasingly competitive market. Successful applicants will get a foot in the door and start building valuable relationships with partners, associates, trainees and graduate recruitment managers at five of the world’s best law firms.

Vantage

A number of opportunities are offered directly to Vantage users, including work experience, insight events, pupillages, vacation schemes and training contracts. Vantage matches candidates to opportunities at law firms and chambers.

Bridging the Bar

Bridging the bar is an initiative that is committed to increasing the equality of access to opportunities in the legal profession across all underrepresented groups. They offer mini- pupillages, mentorships, skills workshops, and judicial internships.

Chamber student

Chamber student provides a number of useful guides:

1. The True Picture: independent, unbiased reviews of trainee life at the leading law firms, based on in-depth interviews with over 1,000 trainees. The trainees were selected by us, not by their law firms, and they spoke to us freely and frankly under the protection of anonymity. Each True Picture includes an online ‘Get Hired’ feature, based on management interviews and trainee tips.
2. Chambers Reports: a look at life inside the top barristers’ chambers. We visit each of the sets and interview pupils, barristers and clerks.
3. Practice area guides: we reveal the reality of becoming a lawyer in over 30 practice areas. Our expert interviewees help you make good decisions at this crucial stage.

Upreach

upReach helps disadvantaged students from across the UK realise their potential through highly personalised programmes of support. They offer students access to a comprehensive range of opportunities and activities to understand career pathways and develop the skills, networks and experiences needed for professional success.

Young professionals

Young professionals is a network which helps school students to accelerate their careers in apprenticeship and work experience programs.

Sutton Trust

Sutton trust support young people from less advantaged backgrounds to access leading universities and careers. In partnership with universities and employers, they run programmes that give students practical advice.

Muslim Lawyers Action Group

MLAG supports those looking to gain access to the profession through mentoring opportunities. They provide a safe space for all to enjoy the company of others in the profession, to exchange experiences and ideas, and to support one another in the challenges we face. They raise awareness of legal developments that affect our community via training events, workshops, webinars and seminars, and annual conferences.

Flex Legal

Flex Legal is an online platform that connects users to flexible roles in the legal industry. 

Law Training Centre

Law Training Centre provides courses that are online by design and crafted to be fully flexible for part-time learning. Most of their students are already working at some level within the legal sector and wanting to upskill in order to enhance their career. Students can start courses at any time so there is no need to wait for a term to start, and course materials such as texts, presentations, video lectures and mock exams are accessible on demand 24/7, so learning can be made to fit around a busy life. As well as email support, specialist legal tutors (which include practising solicitors), can provide one on one feedback as well as holding group classes via video link.