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Law Fair Guide 2020 List of Exhibitors 2020 Addleshaw Goddard LLP https://graduates.addleshawgoddard.com/ Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – AM Session There’s never been an Addleshaw Goddard type. Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations and perspectives. Individual personality and spirit have underpinned our growth and shaped our identity as a firm. Today, our commitment to people’s uniqueness still defines our future. We believe that the difference between a good lawyer and an outstanding one is character. Barbri www.barbri.com/ Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – PM Session BARBRI is the world’s leading private legal education provider, having prepared more than 1.3 million lawyers and law graduates to sit and pass a U.S. bar exam (the qualifying assessments for the practice of law in the U.S.). BARBRI prepares both U.S. and international lawyers and law graduates to pass a U.S. bar exam. BARBRI’s Extended Bar Prep programme is offered as either a 6-month or 10-month curriculum and affords international lawyers and law graduates the opportunity to study for a U.S. bar exam while working. BARBRI also offers QLTS Prep by BARBRI, a preparation course for the Qualified Lawyer Transfer Scheme (QLTS). The QLTS is a two-part assessment through which foreign- qualified lawyers can qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales. Starting in 2021, BARBRI will offer a preparation course for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), the new qualification assessment that the Solicitors Regulation Authority is currently developing. Blackadders LLP www.blackadders.co.uk Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – PM Session Blackadders provides a comprehensive range of legal services to individuals and businesses. We are a long established law practice with offices across Scotland. Our lawyers collaborate across various disciplines to give our clients the all-round perspective and results they require. Our commitment to training and development ensures that our experts have the professional knowledge and skills to deal with the most complex cases. We offer our expertise nationally and, as part of the LEGUS international network. The firm provides a dynamic, challenging and positive working environment which allows people to develop and enhance their skills through structured training. All our staff, including our trainees are given weekly TCPD sessions led by our Learning & Development Team, Solicitors, Partners and Heads of Department as well as external providers. There is also a great social aspect, with trainees regularly invited to attend events, seminars and given opportunities to network professionally. In addition we have a strong focus on Corporate Social Responsibility. Our trainees enjoy participating and/or organising various charity fundraising events. Our training contracts last two years and we aim to offer four six month seats. Following on from this we would aim to retain successful trainees and as such have a high level of trainee retention. Our Trainees can be located in any of our offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh or Glasgow. To be eligible to apply for a traineeship you will have a strong academic record and hold a degree in Scots Law. Our people come from all different backgrounds and your personal qualities are just as important to us. We will be accepting applications in the near future for our 2022 traineeships. Please check our website for updates and information and how to apply at www.blackadders.co.uk/careers. You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest news. Brodies LLP www.brodies.com/ Exhibiting: Wednesday 23rd September – PM Session Brodies LLP is a top 50 UK law firm, headquartered in Scotland. It is the largest law firm in Scotland measured by income, directory rankings, and lawyer numbers. With more than 700 people working across, Aberdeen, Brussels, Dingwall, Edinburgh and Glasgow, we work with our clients in: arbitration; banking and financial services; employment; energy (renewables and oil & gas); litigation; M&A, private equity and IP; real estate; pensions and benefits; personal and family and tax. For our colleagues, we provide an environment that is progressive, inclusive, supportive and rewarding. We offer the opportunity to work alongside expert lawyers and professionals; to be involved in matters that are significant in terms of scale, technicality and innovation; and to be part of a firm that believes in making a difference on a community, commercial, economic and constitutional level. CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP www.cmsearlytalent.com/ Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – AM Session CMS is a future facing, global law firm well equipped to help clients confront challenges and seize opportunities with confidence. CMS put the interests of clients at the heart of everything they do across their 70+ offices in 40+ countries in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. With more than 1,000 partners and 4,800 lawyers, CMS work in cross-border teams to deliver top quality, practical advice no matter how complex the situation. The firm is recognised for its sector excellence and focus in consumer products; energy; financial services; hotels & leisure, infrastructure & project finance; life sciences & healthcare; real estate; and technology, media & communications. Their legal expertise is therefore matched by real world, commercial understanding of the markets in which their clients operate. As a future facing firm, they embrace technology and are committed to new ideas that challenge conventional ways of doing things if a better solution for clients can be found. Their aim is to anticipate and create sustainable and rewarding futures for their clients, people, and communities. Digby Brown LLP www.digbybrown.co.uk/ Exhibiting: Wednesday 23rd September – AM Session Digby Brown is Scotland's largest personal injury practice. From our seven offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Inverness, Aberdeen and Ayr, we cover the length and breadth of the country. Digby Brown is ranked Band 1 for Personal Injury in Scotland by Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession and Legal 500. Each year we use our experience and expertise to recover millions of pounds in compensation. Digby Brown has been at the forefront in providing access to justice for accident victims by pioneering 'no win, no fee' arrangements and by introducing legal expenses insurance and outlays funding schemes. In addition, the firm believes they are unique in Scotland by using specialist departments to cover the range of types of accidents, types of injury and location of accident, to offer our clients the very best possible resources to bolster their case. DWF LLP www.dwfgroup.com/en/careers/graduate-recruitment Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – PM Session We are a global legal business, transforming legal services through our people for our clients. We have 31 key locations and over 4,000 people delivering services and solutions that go beyond expectations. By questioning traditions and thinking beyond conventions, we achieve outstanding levels of innovation. We have received recognition for our work by The Financial Times who named us as one of Europe's most innovative legal advisers, and we have a range of stand- alone consultative services, technology and products in addition to the traditional legal offering. We connect on a global scale, sharing our knowledge and technical expertise to identify and anticipate challenges. We are finding new solutions for clients within eight core sectors including Energy and Industrials, Financial Services, Insurance, Public Sector, Real Estate, Retail, Food & Hospitality, Technology and Transport. Faculty of Advocates www.advocates.org.uk/ Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – PM Session The Faculty of Advocates is a body of independent lawyers who have been admitted to practise as Advocates before the Courts of Scotland. Harper Macleod LLP www.harpermacleod.co.uk Exhibiting: Wednesday 23rd September – AM Session Types of Law: Debt Recovery, Personal Injury and Reparation, Private Client and Residential Property, Insolvency, Real Estate and Construction, Energy and Renewables, Family, Banking & Finance, Corporate, Public Sector, Employment, Dispute Resolution, Projects and Infrastructure. Harper Macleod is one of Scotland's leading independent law firms and one of the largest professional partnerships in the country. We've been named Law Firm of the Year eight times and have delivered long term growth in turnover and profitability. The firm offers the full range of commercial and personal legal services. People are the key to our success - that's why we go to great lengths to ensure that we recruit the right ones. We strive to be the employer of choice and create an inclusive, healthy, safe and stimulating work environment that is recognised as a place of opportunity for everyone. Our people enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package together with excellent training and development opportunities. Harper Macleod’s culture is the sum of the actions of the people who make up our business – it’s built around taking calculated risks and pushing for innovative solutions. Doing things the right way is always the best way – the right things for clients, colleagues and our communities. We will never compromise on this. We also embrace flexibility – including when and where our people work. We are a business that has been named Law Firm of the Year eight times and ranked in The Times Scotland Best Law Firms 2020. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, an active colleague engagement & CSR programme and the opportunity to develop your career. We believe the best is yet to come for Harper Macleod. If this sounds like the type of firm you’d like to be part of, maybe the best is yet to come for you? HM Connect www.harpermacleod.co.uk/hm-connect/ Exhibiting: Tuesday 22nd September – PM Session HM Connect is a network operated by Harper Macleod comprising over 375 High Street firms from across Scotland. We exist to support and promote law on the high street.
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