Junior Lawyers Division Annual Conference

Price: £35.00 Qualified
£30.00 Trainee
£25.00 Student
Start Date: 11-07-2009
CPD hours: 4.50
Event type: CPD Seminars
Location: Birmingham
Venue: Birmingham City Football Club, St Andrews Stadium, Birmingham
Region: West Midlands
United Kingdom

 

09:45-10:30 Registration and refreshments
10:30-10:45 Introduction and welcome
  • Katherine Gibson - Chair, Junior Lawyers Division
  • Bernard Shepherd - President, Birmingham Law Society
10:45-11:15 Keynote speaker
  • David Latham - President, Employment Tribunals
Plenary sessions
11:15-12:00 Potential career paths To be confirmed
12:00-13:00 Motivation - recognising what you want from your career and how to achieve it
  • Luke Cunliffe - ultra marathon and extreme runner and Principal, Cunliffe Associates
13:00-13:45 Buffet lunch and networking opportunity
Break-out session one
13:45-14:45 Choice of one of the following:
A practical guide to instructing Counsel
  • Duncan Bagshaw - Counsel, St Philips Chambers
Networking - making an impression
  • Luke Cunliffe - Principal, Cunliffe Associates
The future of the training contract?
  • Simon Bullock - Policy Executive, Education and Training, Solicitors Regulatory Authority
14:45-15:00 Coffee break

Break-out session two

15:00-16:00

Choice of one of the following:

Top tips for becoming a superstar associate
  • Tom Durrant, Partner and Jacob Robinson, Associate - HBJ Gateley Wareing
  • Ben Thornber - Partner, Martineau

How to influence and persuade people
  • Luke Cunliffe - Principal, Cunliffe Associates

Corporate style - outfitting yourself for the working world

  • Cliff Burgess, business development manager, and Anthony Procopi, director of men's formalwear - TM Lewin
16:00-16:15 Closing remarks and raffle prize draw
  • Linda Lee, Deputy Vice-President, The Law Society
  • Heidi Sandy - incoming Chair, Junior Lawyers Division
Dinner dance (black tie/national dress)
19:00-19:45 Champagne reception
20:00-01:00 Dinner and dancing with charity raffle in support of Raleigh International

 

 

 

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