Last updated on March 7th, 2017 at 11:19 am

The talk explored how each of our lawyers began their own careers, all very differently, and gave the students tips on writing their CVs and on job interview techniques. They shared the diversity of work undertaken from day to day in family law, dealing with clients, courts, advocacy and social media, and gave some valuable advice on ‘do’s and don’t’s’ once in practice.  The talk concluded with a Q&A session.

Eleanor Hopwood, family law solicitor

Bradie Pell says “It was great fun to meet and speak with the family lawyers of tomorrow. We hope our talk has encouraged the students and given them some real insight into family law in practice.” Lecturer and organiser of the event, Dan Fauset, said the students had been inspired by the talk and many had concluded that family law really was their future career of choice.

Bradie Pell, family law solicitor

Positive student feedback

Some lovely feedback comments from the students include:

“the talk was so helpful for me personally and has confirmed my decision to become a family law solicitor” Yasmin

“it was good to hear that the legal profession can cater for many different types of personalities” Amy

“it was good to see how positive Eleanor and Bradie were about their work as family lawyers and the talk provided us with a clear idea as to the type of experience and different options for a student who wishes to work in this area and in accessing the legal profession overall” George

“a really useful talk and interesting to hear insight on their individual routes into law” Lauren

“the talk gave us a clear idea of the interesting and diverse range of work of a family lawyer, all of which involves human interest” Yasmin