{"id":1737,"date":"2020-01-07T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:01:46","slug":"interested-in-a-career-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in a Career in Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Linklaters<\/strong>, a large, global, Magic-Circle law firm, are offering a Kent-only open afternoon to students at the University of Kent.\u00a0 Students from ANY degree subject are invited. Over 40% of UK lawyers are graduates of subjects other than law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ELIGBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are studying for an undergraduate degree in any subject<\/li>\n<li>You are either a 1<sup>st<\/sup> year on a 3 year degree or a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> year on a 4 year degree.\u00a0\u00a0 (I have checked and these criteria are <strong>NOT<\/strong> flexible).<\/li>\n<li>You are on target for\/expect to get a 2.1 degree &#8211; the instruction mention predictions but you will not have any if you are in 1<sup>st<\/sup> year so you must make your own educated guess based on how well you think you are doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HOW TO APPLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further information and the application form can be found here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.smartsurvey.co.uk_s_KentOA_&amp;d=DwMFAw&amp;c=qQy84HidZKks1AzH1tNzCKFxsPy43_OhvfM1avj4FME&amp;r=c3BzUB6Ga9lcZYyOa9LqJT4_kFdaxCN7hh1ljNuda5M&amp;m=UMHrV1PRTrVJqoJqy9-pPZdD7JQkfPTqEYP7wiKNiGk&amp;s=3ZRNFj6BAn8S0vKcq2zMvzd20QFKUmtn6mbEPMJi1GU&amp;e=\">https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/KentOA\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no formal deadline but the event takes place on 24<sup>th<\/sup> January so Linklaters will be operating a <strong>rolling application system<\/strong> (i.e. they will consider your application as soon as it arrives.\u00a0 Make an impression and beat the rush \u2013 apply ASAP).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/&amp;t=Interested in a Career in Law?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Interested in a Career in Law?%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/&amp;title=Interested in a Career in Law?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/&amp;title=Interested in a Career in Law?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linklaters, a large, global, Magic-Circle law firm, are offering a Kent-only open afternoon to students at the University of Kent.\u00a0 Students from ANY degree subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/2020\/01\/07\/interested-in-a-career-in-law\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54698,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[193779,131578],"tags":[1473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}