Placements and work experience
Engaging in activities outside your degree enables you to develop important employability and personal skills and position yourself for graduate opportunities. Vacation Schemes and other work experience are available at Law Firms. Many Barristers Chambers offer short periods of work experience (mini-pupillage). There are opportunities to gain experience working In-house and there are a wide range of virtual work experience programmes for law. Law firms value a wide range of experience including involvement in extra-curricular activities and volunteering.
Extracurricular activities
Warwick provides a wealth of extracurricular opportunities including over 250 societies (cultural, sporting, academic, campaigning and performance), volunteering, part-time work and work experience. Warwick Volunteers provides opportunities to take part in both one off and ongoing volunteering projects and many students also secure part-time jobs both on and off campus.
Live legal projects
The Law School has a strong tradition of working with students on live legal projects.
Warwick Law in the Community (LinC)
This programme cultivates opportunities for you to gain practical experience in law while also making a meaningful contribution to our community locally, nationally and internationally.
We work collaboratively with various organisations to create opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to gain practical experience in law and actively contribute to advancing social justice. We offer opportunities in more traditional forms of legal advice and practice, but we also look beyond these to expose students to alternative ways of doing and thinking about law, including writing, research and journalism, advocacy, education and digital technology.
LinC offers volunteering opportunities through our Strategic Social Justice Clinic projects and the Immigration and Asylum Clinic which run throughout the year in conjunction with Central England Law Centre. We also run projects with a number of other external partner organisations. Students who have volunteered for either of our Clinics or on any other LinC projects are eligible to apply for our paid summer internships, which offer interns the opportunity to work with partner organisations on a range of exciting and in-depth projects.
US Death Penalty Project
We have operated a US Death Penalty Project in association with attorneys in the USA for over 20 years.
Lacuna Magazine
Our in-house Lacuna Magazine provides the chance to be involved in journalistic writing, editing and publication.
Student Societies
Student-led law societies also run competitions (mooting, negotiation, client interviewing) and their own Pro Bono projects.
University support for internships
Warwick provides financial assistance to students who secure short periods of unpaid experience, such as work shadowing through its work experience bursaries and provides information on work experience and internships through its myAdvantage careers platform and Law School online Student Hub.
Meeting recruiters
Leading graduate recruiters and law firms are keen to meet our students to provide information on their opportunities including open/insight days, internships, vacation and graduate schemes. They deliver presentations, workshops and take part in careers fairs and other events.
Each year the Law Fair brings together law firms providing students with an opportunity to network with graduate recruiters. Information is made available to students via the myAdvantage opportunities database, Law School website and social media platforms.
The Law School has its own dedicated careers consultant who helps students identify and apply for work experience and other opportunities.
Your career
Studying law provides a platform to a wide range of career opportunities within the legal profession and beyond.
Our law graduates train for the Bar and work for leading law firms such as:
- Freshfields
- Allen and Overy
- Slaughter and May
- Clifford Chance
- Linklaters
They also go on to work for other major employers such as:
- Goldman Sachs
- PwC
- UK Civil Service
- Financial Conduct Authority
- British Red Cross
- Microsoft
- Accenture
Helping you find the right career
Warwick Law School has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant to support you. They offer impartial advice and guidance, together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:
- Warwick careers fairs including the Law Fair
- Law firm presentations and events like Working in Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law; Working within In-House Law
- Other law workshops have included e.g. Becoming a Solicitor, The journey to the Bar, Working for the West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, and LPC or SQE
- Workshops on the legal recruitment process including CVs, covering letters, applications and how to prepare for interviews and assessment centres with law firms
Find out more about careers support at Warwick.
