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Law work experience help

Im writing my personal statement for Law at cambridge, leeds, warwick, manchester and aston university. However my teachers are saying to stand out for cambridge and seem like a strong candidate i need some sort of law work experience. Does anyone know where i can get any virtual work experience in september/october?? Please and thanks
Original post by 6ambz
Im writing my personal statement for Law at cambridge, leeds, warwick, manchester and aston university. However my teachers are saying to stand out for cambridge and seem like a strong candidate i need some sort of law work experience. Does anyone know where i can get any virtual work experience in september/october?? Please and thanks

You don't need work experience. Law as a degree is very different to law as a job, and the degree is not vocational
You need to show you have the intellectual ability to read Law - its text heavy, argument heavy.
Working in a solicitor's office is fairly irrelevant to doing a degree in Law.

Have a look at some of the Law lecture podcasts here : https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch/?subject=law
Pick a subject that interests you -'The Child and Medical treatment' maybe - big moral/legal arguments tin that one that are very 'current'. Where do you stand on this? Use this sort of thing as evidence of you 'thinking beyond the A level syllabus'.

You could also have a look at a basic Law textbook Which areas of Law interest you? Why?
You can 'look inside' this one : https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-About-Law-Studying-University/dp/184946085X/ and there are others on Amazon you can peek at as well.
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Original post by McGinger
You need to show you have the intellectual ability to read Law - its text heavy, argument heavy.
Working in a solicitor's office is fairly irrelevant to doing a degree in Law.

Have a look at some of the Law lecture podcasts here : https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch/?subject=law
Pick a subject that interests you -'The Child and Medical treatment' maybe - big moral/legal arguments tin that one that are very 'current'. Where do you stand on this? Use this sort of thing as evidence of you 'thinking beyond the A level syllabus'.

You could also have a look at a basic Law textbook Which areas of Law interest you? Why?
You can 'look inside' this one : https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-About-Law-Studying-University/dp/184946085X/ and there are others on Amazon you can peek at as well.


This is so helpful thank you so much!!

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