First Year Opportunities

You don’t have to wait until your second or final year of university to start looking for career opportunities. Get ahead with these suggestions of open days, vacation schemes and other opportunities you might want to pursue.

18 articles

The importance of pro bono work for first-year law students in the UK

Lewis Ogg4 min read

How to Kickstart Your Legal Career as a First-Year Law Student

Elizabeth Beesley6 min read

From Classroom to Courtroom: Opportunities for First-Year Law Students to Gain Practical Experience

Dhuha Al-Fahad4 min read

Making Connections: Networking Opportunities for First-Year Law Students in the UK

Charlotte Cheshire4 min read

Do insight days count as work experience?

Natasha Jones4 min read

How do first year law students get work experience?

Helena Kudiabor2 min read

Law firm open days

David Carnes4 min read

University campus ambassador positions

Jan Hill3 min read

Work experience ideas

Jan Hill3 min read

First year opportunities: the basics

David Carnes 3 min read

Law firm perspective: brand ambassadors

Becky Kells, Editor, AllAboutLaw6 min read

Law firm perspective: insight days

Becky Kells and Vicki Wood5 min read

First year opportunities – how to get ahead in your law career

Becky Kells and Kesh Kularatne6 min read

First year opportunities with Nottingham Law School

Nottingham Law School3 min read

Open day networking tips

Jodie Mcmaster, Law Student and Editor of StrictlyLegalLaw.wordpress.com3 min read

First year insight schemes

Maudie Powell-Tuck and Becky Kells4 min read

First year law open days

Jos Weale, Managing Editor, AllAboutLaw.co.uk3 min read

First year law work experience ideas

Rebecca Morgan, Law Student, University of Hertfordshire3 min read