The Trainee Litigation Programme and who it’s for All areas of law fall into one of two camps: contentious or non-contentious. Some sectors will fall into both – for example, conveyancing is a non-contentious area because it’s transactional, but an argument over a property boundary is contentious because there is a dispute. During a training […]
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The reason you decided to attend a training course in the first place was to develop your skills as a solicitor. Generally, there are good and bad ways to approach your course, and this generally boils down to preparation, attitude, engagement and reflection. When you follow these steps you can be sure to leave with
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Practicing a contentious area of law requires its own set of skills on top of the ones expected of any solicitor. (If you’re not sure what those more general skills are, this article is a good place to start.) The Jackson reforms (which were implemented in April 2013) have had significant impact on the litigation
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