Student Handbook 2023/24

The Postgraduate Law Careers Team is a dedicated team of expert careers consultants, including an experienced lawyer and law graduates, who together offer a range of guidance, workshops and employer/alumni events to help you best position yourself for your career, as well as enhance your professional skills and global employability. There is also a PG Law Careers module on QMplus, which you can access using this link https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=12157.

Throughout the year, the PG Law Careers Team offers one-to-one career guidance sessions and run important employability skills workshops, including how to hone your CV and cover letter, enhance your networking skills and improve your online applications. They also coordinate a range of employer events tailored for Queen Mary postgraduate law students. 

The team provides current PG Law students and recent alumni with careers support and a whole range of information and resources, including regular updates about career events and employment-related opportunities.

For all enquiries and to contact a member of the PG Law Careers Team please e-mail

pglawcareers@qmul.ac.uk

PG Law Careers services

Throughout the year, you can book one-to-one 25-minute appointments to discuss anything careers related, from career choice and planning to CV, cover letter and application reviews. This service extends to alumni for up to 2 years after they graduate.

To book a one-to-one appointment with a PG Law Careers Consultant, please call 020 7882 8533 or email careers@qmul.ac.uk.

There is also a detailed PG Law Careers Guide on QMplus, which includes comprehensive information about legal role opportunities and different law-based career options.

Employment-related experiences and mentoring opportunities

As demand for legal experience together with commercial understanding grows, the expectation for postgraduate students to undertake internships or work-related experience in the legal field has become the norm. In order to ensure students have the opportunity to develop and harness their knowledge of their legal specialism, the PG Law Careers Team strive to support such professional development by facilitating and promoting opportunities for students to have career mentoring, shadowing and other experiential learning opportunities across all our Programmes. 

Starting in October, we publish a bi-weekly bulletin of available internships and other work experience opportunities that may be of interest to our current students and recent grads.  This will be emailed to you. 

With the support of our alumni, academics and other legal professionals who are closely associated with CCLS, our Mentoring and Internships Coordinator at LIF has been able to offer a limited number of exclusive work experience opportunities for QMUL postgraduate law students to work in UK based and international organisations, law firms and commercial companies.

In addition to engaging and supporting with some of these exclusive internship programmes, we actively promote shadowing and research opportunities in both the public and private sector, whilst further assisting our students with applications for opportunities in the UK, at European and international level.

On an administrative level, with some international and European internships, there are additional legal requirements that need to be met prior to students commencing these opportunities. We are happy to provide advice and support with these where required, including e.g., a template for Conventions de Stage in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Spain.

The PG Law Careers Team at CCLS is headed by Anne Flanagan, LLM Director (a.flanagan@qmul.ac.uk).