"I don’t have any legal experience in my career to date although I do have prior work experience in different careers." This came up quite regularly in a recent seminar session at a University. Quite a lot of the students said that they did not have legal experience but had former careers in other fields. However, when we went through this in further detail, quite a lot of the students actually did have work experience to a certain degree and it was just a case of getting it out of them. A couple of examples were two students who had been directors or involved in the running of claims management companies and another student who had worked as an employment officer; there were also students who had been contract officers, employment managers and even IT consultants. A quasi-legal role is one that involves some element of law but not actually working as a lawyer. Examples would include someone dealing with race equality or employment issues or somebody handling contract negotia...
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