Rating

7.3/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • I am a work experience student, who is in the office for a week. Each day, I shadow a trainee in a different Practise Group to gain an understanding and increase my knowledge of the different areas of Commercial Law available to me. Each day, I take part in legal research using the Practical Law website, help and aid the trainee with their own work and learn new technical skills.

    8/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • Although I have not gained any Qualifications or Internal Training, I have been able to gain an insight into what a Commercial law firm entails and the broad depth and variety it includes. I have learnt many personal skills including communication, teamwork and what is it like to work in a professional environment.

    8/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • I did enjoy the programme because it gave me a taster of everything, and each day I was learning new skills and new processes and rules. I really enjoyed being in the Pinsent Masons office and the facilities it entailed.

    7/10

  • 4. How valued do you feel by Pinsent Masons?
  • I feel very appreciated, although I am only a Work Experience student, and found many people came and gave me their time if I had any questions or queries. The trainees also allowed me to be involved with their tasks.

    9/10

  • 5. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • I think the programme is quite structured since I knew exactly what I was doing each day and received a lot of support. However, I would have liked to have seen a few more presentations ( the ones I did see were extremely useful)

    7/10

  • 6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?
  • I received a lot of support from all the training providers I had. They were able to give me all the time I needed to answer my questions.

    9/10

  • 6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • I was not employed.

    6/10

  • 7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?
  • My work experience was voluntary.

    6/10

  • 8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?
  • I was only here for a week, so did not get involved in other opportunities.

    6/10

  • 9. Would you recommend Pinsent Masons to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • The week has been extremely useful and helped me with my decision as to which career path would suit me.


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Pinsent Masons?
  • All the relevant information is told to you. It was a good application process.


Details

Work Experience

Legal/Law

North East

October 2015


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