Legal Method Assessment Powerpoint. -How Lawbore can improve your prospects- Nicola, Kiran, Umar and Sonia

1. HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR
PROSPECTS WITH …
Nicola, Kiran, Sonia & Umar

2. 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! ;)]

3. 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…

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Lawbore Topic Guides

5. 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

6. 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,

7. 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.

8. IMPROVING YOUR PROSPECTS IN
TERMS OF…
RESEARCH

9. 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 …

10. 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!

11. OTHER JURISDICTIONS
This section provides
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12. IN TERMS OF…
EVENTS

13. 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 lectures
By 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

14. IN TERMS OF…
CARRERS

15. 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….

16. 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 better
For 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

17. 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 days
Summer 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)

18. POSSIBLE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SITE
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

19. CONCLUSION????