Bristol
Activities and events
Extra curricular activities are all about enhancing your experience at The College of Law, Bristol, honing your skills and being better prepared for practice.
It is vital for all lawyers to understand how businesses work and be commercially aware, whatever your intended area of practice. With this in mind, we organise a programme of events and activities to assist you in developing your commercial awareness.
Practice Awareness Presentations
Mentoring
Careers workshops
Court Visits
Mooting and Negotiation Competitions
Speed Networking Event
Practice Awareness Presentations
A range of leading lawyers from practice will be visiting the College during the year to give presentations. These will focus both on key issues affecting lawyers generally and in specific areas of legal practice.
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Mentoring
The Careers Service organises a popular and successful mentoring scheme for all students. Contact with a mentor who works in the legal profession can help build self-confidence and self-esteem through familiarity with legal practice and can give you an insight into the workings of a firm and how to succeed in your career.
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Careers workshops
The Careers Service organises dedicated Careers workshops and skills sessions covering a range of career application enhancement skills, to help strengthen your training contract applications and your other career opportunities.
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Court Visits
We have strong links with the judicial community in Bristol and will be arranging visits to the various courts in the city.
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Mooting and Negotiation Competitions
Skills of oral persuasion are central to the role of lawyers. We negotiate in all types of situation, whether it is the fine detail of a contract, or the terms of settlement of a dispute. Mooting is an activity aimed at developing your skills of legal argument in a court room setting. Like any other skill, the more you practise negotiating and mooting, the better you get.
We will be holding in-house competitions and also assist students wishing to take part in national events.
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Speed Networking Event
The College of Law in Bristol recently held its first annual speed networking event with the Bristol Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) and University of Bristol Student Law Club.
Representatives from 10 legal organisations took part enabling students to get a clearer picture of the variety and complexity of work carried out by firms in Bristol.
The firms came from all sectors of the legal profession and included major national and regional players such as Beachcroft, Osborne Clarke, Clarke Willmott, TLT, Burges Salmon and Bond Pearce, commercial firms with a strong local presence such as Henrique Griffiths and Davies and Partners, public authority lawyers including the solicitor to the Avon and Somerset Police, and a pioneer of commoditized legal services in the shape of the Co-operative Legal Services.
Students divided into small groups and then had 5 minutes with each group of lawyers before being ushered onto the next station. The idea came about as a result of a suggestion by the Bristol Student Law Club for an event about life outside the City of London, and Bristol JLD’s wish to have some kind of networking event that was fun and more dynamic than the usual networking events.
The College of Law with its strong connections in the city were able to host the event and invite the legal community to take part.
Business Development Director, Steve Levett said “It was great that so many law firms and lawyers were so keen to help us with this initiative. It just shows that the College of Law is working closely with the community and providing events that are value and people are willing to support".
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