Rubies are red: the handbook's back!
updated on 24 October 2011
Encased in a sleeve of deep cerise, this year's appetizing edition of The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook is good enough to eat. At nearly 800 info-packed pages, the handbook really is the delicious main course of legal recruitment guides and the essential ingredient with which to cook up your legal career.
Once again, we've talked to legal professionals to get a sense of the current landscape and interviewed dozens of practitioners to give you a clear picture of their areas of expertise. "Insider reports" offer you first-hand accounts of what work placement schemes are like. And we've expanded sections, added details and checked facts - all in an effort to make sure you have every tasty morsel of relevant information right at your fingertips.
Copies will be handed out at university careers services and law faculties over the next few weeks. You can also find details of how to purchase the handbook online at www.tcph.co.uk.
But that's not all: LC.N's Best in Law magazine has also just been published! Now in its eighth year, the mag is an essential read for those who really want to stand out from their peers. As well as nine in-depth profiles of the winning firms at the LC.N Training & Recruitment Awards, you'll find:
- articles on the year in law and commerce;
- features on application and interview technique;
- articles on hot legal topics written by lawyers to boost your commercial awareness;
- the best letters to the Oracle; and
- a definitive list of 10 things people in the profession wished they had known before becoming a lawyer.
Phew! Make a trip to your law faculty or careers service and see what all the fuss is about. And remember - the handbook is best used in tandem with the various facilities available on LawCareers.Net. So familiarise yourself with the Immediate Vacancies and training contract search engines, and sign up for MyLC.N, the site's neat new function that allows you to manage your firm applications online.
