People who've done law work experience?

I've managed to secure work experience for 3 days next week which is quite exciting. I'm at a law firm in Manchester. It's too late to put it on my Personal Statement but hopefully I can bring it up in interviews.

I know you posted this a few months back, but would you mind telling me which firm this was at? I'm looking for Manchester firms and no one seems to be replying to my emails!
Was it any good in the end?

It was really through having a contact - it was a friend of a friend of a family member and they were able to secure it for me. It was mainly admin work but just being in the office was great and I got a feel for what they were doing. Then on the last day I was able to go to court and shadow a duty solicitor. It's a very beneficial thing to do.

So what firm was it?

Well...
does it really so important to get a experience through the applying?

I know it may sounds a little stupid...
But it's really hard to get the opportunity to get related work experience of law
so I just wonder that if there is any specific opinions about getting a experience?
thx a lot!!!!

i was able to get work experience with the barristers and sit in on cases

how?

I did a week of work experience after I had graduated from uni. The first day all I did was look through letters sent from charities and make a list of all the charities. I also attended a home visit with one of the private client practitioners. did not learn anything in terms of law, but it helped to understand roughly what they do day to day.

Towards the end I got to do a bit more, I was shown some of their case management systems and I did little bits and pieces.

I think once they get to know you better and see what you can do and that you are doing well, they will give you more things; just don't expect anything which requires responsibility. They could ask you to draft letters and then check them maybe.

In the end, something might come out of it, such as promise to take you back for more once you have advanced in your studies and even a job or a TC. Keeping in touch with them is the key. Go to their Christmas parties and bbqs if invited and mingle.

when i did my work experience at a law firm last year after my GCSE's it was actually really good. The first day was pretty boring but they had different stuff for me to do every day. I went to the Old Bailey, got to work in the library, helped in the office of a legal executive and i was even given some mock little research tasks to do. I guess I was lucky that i had a family friend who was a solicitor in the firm. If you still wanna get some interesting work experience i could pm you thr name of the firm i did mine at.

when i did my work experience at a law firm last year after my GCSE's it was actually really good. The first day was pretty boring but they had different stuff for me to do every day. I went to the Old Bailey, got to work in the library, helped in the office of a legal executive and i was even given some mock little research tasks to do. I guess I was lucky that i had a family friend who was a solicitor in the firm. If you still wanna get some interesting work experience i could pm you thr name of the firm i did mine at.