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Do Unpaid Legal Positions Breach Employment Laws?

This is a follow up to a previous post where I highlighted the fact that some law firms are offering law graduates unpaid work in exchange for the experience they will get and sometimes with the possibility of it leading to a training contract position.  Read that blog post here: Unpaid Legal Work Experience Blog [...]

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Legal Work Experience – What Not To Do

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Hammonds Vacation Scheme Development

The Lawyer2B recently reported that Hammonds is introducing a client panel to its vacation scheme this summer. Hammonds have made a habit of being at the forefront of recruiting practices including assessment days and psychometric testing.  Now they are going one further with Apprentice style interviews of their vacation schemers by the firm’s clients.  This [...]

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Warning: Don’t Pay For Legal Work Experience!

Following my recent post about law firms getting people to work for them for free, I was made aware of an even more sinister practice that is going on. It appears that some firms are actually asking individuals to pay to get legal work experience with them.  In one instance, reported on one of the [...]

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