Links with the profession

We work very closely with law firms, chambers, government bodies and alternative legal employers to ensure you have access to employers throughout your programme.

Job Vacancies Database

BPP's Careers Service maintains a vacancy database with a large range of legal vacancies including posts advertised exclusively to BPP students.

We also have a recruitment service used by many local and national firms to recruit trainees directly into training contract vacancies.

Speaker series

Throughout the academic year, a series of presentations are made by law firms, chambers and alternative legal employers. Talks are run at all four of our locations at dates and times that fit in with student studies and work commitments. Employers who have recently presented and given careers advice to our students are:

1 Essex Court 2-3 Grays Inn 37 Park Square 4 New Square Chambers 4 Pump Court Addleshaw Goddard Allen & Overy Barclays Capital Beachcroft LLP Berwin Leighton Paisner Blacks BP Collins Bradford University - In house Broadway House Chambers Browne Jacobson Chamber of Rock Tansey Charles Russell Clarion Clough & Willis Solciitors CMS Cameron McKenna Crown Prosecution Service Dechert Dundas & Wilson DWF EDF Energy Eversheds Faegre Benson Finers Stephens Innocent Fisher Meredith Fox Hayes Fox Williams Gordons Government Legal Service Grata Law firm Hackney Law Centre Henry Hyams Hogarth Ibbotson Brady Irwin Mitchell KBW Chambers Keating Chambers Kennedys Kings Chambers

Lambeth Law Centre Legal Aid Practitoners Group Legal Practice Clerks Lupton Fawcett Mace & Jones Maitland Chambers Margaret Glentworth, District Judge Mayer Brown Nabarro No.6 Chambers Ole Hanson & Partners Olswang Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Paradise Chambers Park Court Chambers Park Lane Chambers Peters and Peters Pinsent Masons Platt Halpern Praxis Partners Pritchard Englefield Raworths Solicitors Rolitts SJ Berwin Sacco Mann Recruitment Smith Nephew - In House Sovereign Chambers Stephenson Harwood Stephensons Switalskis Solicitors Tates Taylor Root Recruitment Tooks Chambers Ventura - In House Walker Morris Ward Hadaway Watson Burton Wilson's Solicitors Winward Fearon XXIV Old Buildings Young Street Chambers Zenith Chambers

 

Access to Practice Scheme

BPP Careers Service runs a very successful 'Access to Practice' scheme aimed at students with limited access to the legal profession. Successful students are matched with a practitioner from one of the following volunteer organisations. The lawyer, known as a 'Practice Adviser', assists the student from January to July (for a minimum of 5 hours during this time) with any careers related queries they may have which may include looking over a CV, application form or giving interview advice. Practice advisers provide:

• a point of contact with the legal profession
• insight into life as a lawyer in practice
• increased confidence in making applications and attending interviews
• excellent networking opportunities

Current firms involved in the scheme include:

Addleshaw Goddard Andrew M Jackson Beachcroft LLP Berrymans Lace Mawer Berwin Leighton Paisner Bird and Bird Blacks Brooke North Browne Jacobson Burges Salmon Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP Chambers Solicitors Charles Russell LLP Citigroup Clarion CMS Cameron McKenna Cobbetts Court Service Cousins Tyrer CPS Crockett & Co Croydon & Sutton Law Centre Davies Arnold Cooper Dechert LLP Denton Wilde Sapte DLA Piper UK Dundas & Wilson DWF Emsleys Eversheds Finers Stephens Innocent LLP Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer George Davies Solicitors Glaisyers Gordons Halliwells Hammonds Henry Hyams Hill Dickinson

Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Ison Harrison Jones Day KBW Keeble Hawson Kuit Steinart Levy Lambeth Law Centre Leeds City Council Lester Morrill Lionel Blackman Solicitors Macfarlanes Mishcon de Reya Morrish & Co Nabarro Nexus Solicitors Ogden Waller Property Group Olswang Pannone Pinsent Masons Praxis Partners Rollits Scholfield Sweeney Shearman & Sterling Shoosmiths Sparrowhawk Media Group Stamp Jackdon and Procter Switalskis Tates Tesco The Licensing Company Universal Pictures UK Walker Morris Wandsworth & Merton Law Centre Ward Hadaway Watson Burton Wilsons Solicitors Zermanskys

 

Annual Law Fair

Each year, the Careers Services at Leeds, London (Holborn & Waterloo) and Manchester hold an annual law fair. The law fair is an excellent opportunity for employers to represent themselves to students and for students to network with training contract providers. All students who join BPP without a training contract are encouraged to attend the fairs. The names of the employers who have attended our fairs include:

Addleshaw Goddard Allen and Overy LLP Ashton Morton Slack Barclays Capital Beachcroft LLP Berwin Leighton Paisner Blacks Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons Brooke North Burges Salmon Charles Russell Clough & Willis Solicitors Clyde & Co Crown Prosecution Service DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Emsleys Eversheds Field Fisher Waterhouse Ford & Warren Forsters LLP Fox Williams LLP Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer George Davies Solicitors Glaisyers Gordons Government Legal Service Halliwells Hammonds Herbert Smith LLP Hill Dickinson Howard Kennedy Irwin Mitchell K&L Gates Kennedys

Legal Practice Clerks Lovells Lupton Fawcett Macfarlanes Mayer Brown McCormicks Michael Page Legal Recruitment Mills & Reeve Mishcon de Reya Morgan Cole Morrish & Co Nabarro Norton Rose LLP Olswang Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe Pannone Pinsent Masons Praxis Partners Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Robert Walters Sacco Mann Schofield Sweeney Shulmans Simmons & Simmons SJ Berwin LLP Stephenson Harwood Stephensons Taylor Root Legal Recruitment Walker Morris Watson Burton Watson Farley & Williams LLP Wedlake Bell Wilsons Solicitors Winckworth Sherwood

Alternative Fair

Whilst the majority of students studying the GDL, LPC or BVC are looking to secure a training contract or pupillage, we know that some may be interested in alternatives to this traditional route. Each year we run an 'Alternatives & Paralegal' fair. Below are a list of some of the organisations that we currently work with:

Accenture Appleyard Lees Badenoch and Clark Barclays Capital Beachcroft LLP BPP Accountancy and Taxation Burges Salmon Clarion Commerce & Industry Group Council for Licensed Conveyancers CPS Crown Prosecution Service DA Solutions Deloitte Harrison Goddard Foote/HGF Law Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators

KPMG Legal Practice Clerks Mace & Jones Manchester Law Society Recruitment Consultancy Oostvogels Pfister Roemers Praxis Partners PricewaterhouseCoopers Quigg Golden Robert Walters Royal Bank of Scotland Rullion Select Recruitment Taylor Root The Lawyer Magazine Ward Hadaway Watson Burton

Diversity Access Scheme in partnership with Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard in partnership with BPP Law School launched a Diversity Access Scheme in 2007 offering six places on its summer placement scheme to students from BPP Law School without training contracts who come from unconventional educational backgrounds. It aims to fast track students onto the Addleshaw Goddard vacation scheme who might otherwise be excluded because of the non-traditional nature of their education.

The scheme is targeted at students who, for example, do not have A-levels or have lower A-level grades than would normally be required but nonetheless have demonstrated their academic ability at university.

The six successful applicants will receive support and training from Addleshaw Goddard and BPP Law School to help them to prepare for their placement and to assist them to perform to the best of their ability whilst on the placement scheme.

The scheme is being piloted in 2007 and if successful will be offered to BPP students studying in 2007/08.

If your organisation is interested in becoming a careers service partner for any of our programmes that we run, please contact the National Director of Careers Service, Melanie Kerven, by emailing lawcareers@bpp.com