Here are five books that every trainee or wannabee trainee should read
Fish Sunday Thinking
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You are in a job you do not enjoy. You are surrounded by colleagues you do not respect. You feel you can do better. Your life feels directionless. You feel trapped. You drink to take your mind off it all. You dread Mondays. You hate your alarm clock with a passion. You worship Friday afternoons. You cherish the weekend. You loathe the inevitability of ironing, always ironing. You assess where you are going on every Sunday. You know you're not the big fish. You wonder if you ever want to be. You are stuck on repeat. You are in an endless cycle of working, drinking and making coffee. You want a way out. You want to escape this way of thinking. You want to enjoy life, all the time. You want fulfilment. You want freedom. You want to read this book. In a large London law firm, trainee solicitor Denton Voyle contemplates why he is pursuing a career in law. Every Sunday afternoon, with nothing better to look forward to than the ironing, he questions his miserable, listless, alcohol fuelled existence and wonders if the pursuit of being the big fish could ever really satisfy him. He soon finds he is not alone and sets out to escape his fish Sunday thinking.
My Brief Career: The Trials of a Young Lawyer
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John Mortimer
"An hilarious account of the splendid miseries of being a pupil in a barrister's chambers"
Jonathan Sumption, Sunday Telegraph (Review)
...well-written, in a style so close to Evelyn Waugh as to be almost pastiche..
The Legal Practice Companion
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Now in its eleventh edition Montagu and Weston’s Legal Practice Companion is firmly established as the leading source of support and reference for students undertaking the Legal Practice Course. The approach and structure of the Legal Practice Companion is unique. Updated annually, it concisely covers all the core areas of the Legal Practice Course. Topics are broken down and analysed in bullet points, making the text extremely clear and accessible to the reader. Graphics, flow charts and summaries are used for complex areas, making information easier to recall. The Companion also makes an excellent starting point for primary source research, as case or legislation citation is included wherever possible.
Blackstone's Guide to Becoming a Solicitor
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Competition is fierce to secure a training contract with a firm of solicitors. Undergraduates, postgraduates and those on the LPC all find the task equally difficult. This new book provides practical solutions to many of these problems. Clearly laid-out, easy-to-read and informative, it includes useful advice on such areas as: drafting CVs; writing covering letters to apply for training contracts; researching the market place; getting the best value out of work experience;
selecting firms; interview approaches and techniques; accessing sources of finance. The book aims to be a useful source of reference and offer practical tips for anyone wishing to enter the legal profession.
The Law Machine
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This text introduces and demystifies the procedures, customs and controversies of the English legal system. It takes account of changes in the divorce laws, the jury system, the functions of barristers and solicitors and the provisions of legal aid and services for the less well-off.
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