Alumni Interviews « Lawbore Future Lawyer

8Feb/100

Interview with Craig Robinson

Craig's interview is wide-ranging; offering Future Lawyer readers an insight into how Craig's career in law has panned out, from his experience of studying at City, becoming a commercial lawyer, right through to his current role as author of The Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success and creator of The Ultimate Law Guide website.

Craig has developed The Ultimate Law Guide to help students sketch their path out to a training contract - his website offers the following snapshot of his mission:

We are a team of qualified solicitors, who were the first in our families to go to university and come from backgrounds not traditionally associated with law. We beat all the odds to achieve our ambitions of becoming lawyers at leading law firms, and now want to give back - by helping to inspire the next generation of talented students to get-ahead and successfully forge careers in law.

Hot content in this interview includes Craig's tips for training contract interview, the most difficult question he's been asked at interview and some thoughts on demonstrating commercial awareness successfully.

To find out more about Craig - read the piece featured in The City Law School's In Law Magazine Spring 2009

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5Feb/100

Interview with Keith Abel

As a City Law School alumni, Keith Abel (of Abel & Cole organic fruit and vegetable distributors) is interviewed for City, the magazine for friends and supporters of City University London.

Find out how the business started, how his ethos developed, his views on higher education and what's he's been up to since selling the business 2 years ago.

Keith has strong words of advice for those graduates facing a tough jobs market.
Get inspired here!

See another piece on Keith from 2007 on thisismoney.co.uk

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2Feb/100

Interview with Laurel Lichty – Roshni Thakrar, LLB3

I interviewed Laurel Lichty who was an International Student from the US who choose City University for the Postgraduate Law course GELLB in 2006. Laurel Lichty had praises to sing about The City Law School, the friendly staff, students and atmosphere alike. She was attracted to the educational institution and preferred the lecture style in comparison to other institutions like Westminster.

She has done lots of very interesting things both in her career and as her outside interests such as volunteering work, teaching legal skills as part of a entrepreneurial development program through the Vula Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, being involved in the Obama campaign for President to name but a few. These activities all portray a well rounded individual which is necessary for a successful career in Law.

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1Dec/092

Interview with Nick Oakeshott

Nick Oakeshott completed his GDL at City in 1996, and now works as a barrister at Asylum Aid. Nick tells us about his passion for human rights and details his path to Asylum Aid, previously working for Refugee and Migrant Justice. At Asylum Aid he works as Casework Manager - a massive role which on top of the very demanding casework, he is involved with high level policy engagement with the UK Border Agency and lobbying government policy.

If you're interested in working within human rights Nick's interview will answer a lot of your questions, passing on a detailed view of what his job involves, what kind of skills and experience you'll need and the challenges you're up against.

You can tell the offices of Asylum Aid are at Highbury Corner by the number of sirens!

Nick is speaking at City on Thursday 3rd December - see details of the event here.

Tagged as: alumni, barrister, human rights, lobbying, ngo, policy, refugee, video 2 Comments

23Nov/090

Interview with Alex Antoniou

Alex completed the LLM Media Law in 2008 and is now doing a PhD at City. His interview covers his thoughts on studying for an LLM and the experience of studying law in the UK.

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2Nov/090

Interview with Joanne Rogers

Jo Rogers graduated from the LLB programme at the City Law School in 2002. She's done a huge amount since then and this interview covers her experience of doing the New York Bar, working for US law firms, acting as a mentor for a City law student and lots of hints and tips for aspiring solicitors.

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28Sep/090

Interview with Tom Cross

Tom Cross completed his GDL at City in 2006 and gained tenancy at Francis Taylor Building. Currently he is at the Supreme Court, where he has a post as a first Judicial Assistant until July 2010, working for Lord Collins of Mapesbury and Lord Saville of Newdigate. Exciting stuff!

In his interview Tom talks about the GDL and BVC, his role at FTB, pupillage interviews, teaching law and crucially, passes on some top tips to current students.

To find out more about Tom's legal experience and publications, click here to see his Chambers profile.

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21Sep/090

Interview with Ben Challis

Part of a series of videos filmed specially for Lawbore Future Lawyer, which give law students an insight into how some of the City Law School's extraordinary alumni have turned out. In this one, Ben Challis, an entertainment lawyer, tells us how he made it into the field, about his current and most recent roles (one of 2 lawyers for the Glastonbury Festival, lecturer in law, specialist in live events and television, General Counsel for 3A Entertainments AND editor for the great www.musiclawupdates.com). A pretty inspiring guy.

Ben completed a Diploma in Law and Practice at City University in 1985.