YOUR CAREER IN LAW – THE NEXT STEPS
Claire Pointing is an alumna of the Law faculty having studied the BCL at St Edmund Hall. Claire is an organisational consultant and executive coach who draws on over 20 years experience as a senior City lawyer, strategy consultant and senior public sector official. Claire’s consulting work focuses on working with organisations and individuals to identify and resolve business effectiveness issues relating to organisational dynamics.
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Background and context
- We are at an interesting point in time where old ways of working are under challenge but new ways of working are struggling to emerge in traditional Settings.
- Buzz words fly around – agile working, flexibility – but what do they really mean and how do we get them to be more than words?
- How do you plan for the next phase of your career in 2015 whether you are a solicitor or barrister or if you have moved beyond these traditional roles? What do we even mean by career?
- Beware falling into the trap of generalisations – career choices for women in law are not just about the challenge of motherhood and careers
... A legal career in 2015 – what does that really mean? “
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.” Marshall McLuhan
- a legal career is no longer a linear/ one directional experience: there is life beyond the traditional law firm and bar: over 30% of solicitors are now in house.
- non-traditional roles, in house opportunities and alternative business models are providing alternative options for those for whom the traditional single career track is no longer attractive.
- law may be just one phase in a wider career built on a number of different experiences. • law firms are now competing with these “alternative” career options to retain their future partners.
- leaving a career in law should not be a default reaction to rejecting a traditional legal career path but….your career is an accumulation of experiences. Law may just be one part of a wider set of roles.
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