Nicola, Kiran, Sonia & Umar

HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR PROSPECTS WITH …

Lawbore does exactly what it says on the tin…. It acts as a guide and may we add, a good one for all City Law School

students. In particular the ‘City’ hub provides ‘us’ the student with all means and manner of keeping up to date

with City Law School news, and the goings on in the wonderful world that is the City Law Department…an

important event can never be missed if one uses Lawbore! we are spoon fed carefully handpicked links, and provided

with a long list of databases (that surely must have cost Emily a arm and a leg)

All this and everything else Lawbore has to offer CAN and WILL, if you let it vastly improve your prospects as a Law

Student here at City and there after…

[ps. Emily, we only added the critic because we had to! ;)]

TOPIC GUIDES

The Topic Guides provides the perfect starting point to get familiar with the topics not only in your course Units…such a s those listed as ‘CORE’ but also a wide variety of other areas of Law…bettering your understanding of parts of Law contained within your degree whilst feeding the curious minds of many a Law student in providing a basis of knowledge in a variety of other expanses of law…

Broaden your intellectual horizons and improve your knowledge with Lawbore Topic guides… improve YOUR prospects.

There are a handful of other topic guide areas, yet we wish there was an even more extensive and unusual array of subject areas of which we could gain a quick concise and reliable grasp on using Lawbore Topic Guides

The section referred to as topic guides is extremely useful for all law students. This is because it’s

-Informative

-Easy to understand

-Easy to access

For first year law students is extremely handy as most students are getting to grips with understand law therefore this section acts as an aid to break down what

happens in the lectures and tutorials as they can go quite fast!

Also students can use this tool as a way of independent or extra learning.

Topic guides has several links which include, core, electives, research and careers therefore students don’t have to go through masses of information to find what

they are looking for

Also there’s a section called ‘new this month’ which is another helpful feature.

-Quick links to important things such as cases, reforms, research, acts, pupillages and many more!

-These are important things, which ALL law students need to be involved in, and Lawbore allows you to do just that

TOPIC GUIDES….

IMPROVEMENT’S…

One vital improvement to the Lawbore website could be the breaking down the technical language used enabling new law students to understand the core material.

For example each section of the core material could have an explanation besides its title entailing what it includes.

This is evident as follows,

Constitutional- Constitutional law aims to explore how the law is distributed and how the government uses its power to enforce this law in society.

Contract- Contract law aims to study the implications when two or more parties engage in a legal binding contract.

English Legal system – This aims to give the basic understanding to the law system used in England but also in most commonwealth countries.

Equity and Trust –Equity refers to removing the application of law from the courts. Trust refers to when an individual has placed in another individual involving their personal affairs.

EU- EU law aims to look at the legal system that is used in the European Union’s member states.

Land Property – Property law aims to look at the various forms of ownership within varies types of property.

Legal Method- This refers to the techniques that are primarily used in law and what to use when it’s appropriate.

Tort- Tort primarily means when an individual is in breach of civil duty which is owed to someone else.

IMPROVING YOUR PROSPECTS IN TERMS OF…

RESEARCH

BLOGS

Lawbore provides A vast variety of blog links, it’s variety, like Dicey’s theory regarding Parliamentary sovereign power; has a positive dimension as well as a negative dimension. Whilst there are some more prestigious Blogs such as ‘Lawyer Watch’ there are others that are dare we say more ‘amateur’. However in a more broad spectrum the positive and negative elements stand to be that although Blogs are a great way of keeping up to date with the current going on within the Law world, and no doubt provide a fundamental source of critic and analysis; they should not however be the first point of call for legal research. Luckily Lawbore provides a far more extensive range of different means of research sources …

DATABASES

Lawbore also provides us with otherwise largely unobtainable access to a wide array of online Law databases, allowing us to search with ease for cases, journals and much more with ease, providing us with the means to progress with our studies and most certainly save us a lot of time!

OTHER JURISDICTIONS

This section provides links to sites that can act as the basis of research into jurisdictions all over the world…

With the help of Lawbore the world really can be your oyster

…We only wish their was a section on Lawbore with information about possibly studying abroad whilst enrolled at City, with commentary of students who had done so.

IN TERMS OF…EVENTS

EVENTS CALENDAR

Networking, knowing the right people =Improving your prospects in the Law World…

Lawbore events calendar is always jam packed with Law related events such as the Law fair and interesting lectures usually on topics that are in hot debate, providing you with the opportunity to extend your Insight of Law beyond your lecturesBy informing students of the opportunities available, they are also building on the C.V’s for the future.

And like much of Lawbore it’s quick and easy to use

IN TERMS OF…CARRERS

The Learnmore aspect of the site provides some invaluable information regarding career, pro bono and work placement opportunities guiding you closely in how to boost your CV that will ultimately boost your chances of making it in the Law world.

However we felt if any this was the section of the site which there is most potential for further improvements….

What the resource could improve on is to divide the website into 3 sections for yr 1/2/3. For yr1’s- volunteering, law fairs, internships, links to resources to help understand law betterFor yr2’s- involvement of mooting, advice on what electives to choose, applications for pupillages, LPC

This section could provide quick links

For 1ys’s give full detail about what mooting is, the benefits of volunteering doing internships ect.

One section, which could be added, which is probably going to benefit yr2/3 more is ‘What route to take after your LLB?’- Previous students journeys- Details about Bar vocational and LPC- Comments from current lawyers- Explain how law can open up many opportunities- Show a variety of people who have studied law and don’t work in the law area- Helps student to decide- Links to career advice- Further study e.g Master’s

OUR IDEA FOR IMPROVING THE CAREERS SECTION OF THE SITE WOULD BE TO CREATE FLOW DIAGRAMS OR LITERAL ‘CAREER PATHS’ FOR EACH YEAR WITH CLICKABLE LINKS TOR RELEVANT AREAS OF THE SITE OR EQUALLY OTHERS TOO. THIS WOULD ENABLE STUDENTS SEE WHERE THEY’RE AND WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING, AND ALSO WHERE THEY’RE HEADING AND WHAT THEY NEED TO THINK ABOUT DOING… WE HAVE LISTED WHAT WE THINK MIGHT BE USEFUL TO INCLUDE IN EACH YEARS CAREER PATHS…

Year 1 – Aim for 2:1/1st (First year grades is what employers look at if you are applying for an internships)Events – Go to law events at City and other Universities (For e.g. UCL, LSE, KCL and so on), simply go on to the relevant university website and look at their event section). The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Russel Sq. It also gives you an opportunity to network as well .Go to insight days – For e.g. Jones Day Insight daysSummer Holidays – Use this time to increase your extra curricula activities. (For e.g. work for charities) Do work experience.Year 2 – Aim for 2:1/1st Aim to get an internship this year.Go abroad to another University – Why? Because with the world globalising employers are looking for potential employees who have a global outlook. Summer holiday – Do something that really makes you stand out for example run a marathon.Year 3 – Aim for 2:1/1st – Graduation OR Masters – Why? Because and increasing amount of employers are no longer simply looking for a graduate with a broad range of skills – They are looking for people who specialise. Training Contract (LPC – 2 years)

Another section, which could be added, is a blog or linked Twitter feed on the Law society-What’s going on-The opportunities available-Keeping everyone informed

POSSIBLE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SITE

MORAL OF THE STORY?

USE LAWBORE!