Legal work experience

• Why choose Legal?

  Legal careers are about much more than what happens in a courtroom.

  In a large and complex organisation, legal professionals help colleagues understand their responsibilities, consider legal and regulatory requirements, manage risk and make informed business decisions.

  During your work experience, you’ll discover how an in-house legal team works alongside the wider business and see how law is applied to real organisational challenges.

  You’ll have opportunities to:

  • Explore how legal advice supports business decisions
  • Discover different areas of legal practice
  • Understand how legal risks are identified and considered
  • Learn how laws and regulations influence business activity
  • See how legal professionals work with colleagues across an organisation
  • Experience a professional, office-based legal environment

• What you’ll experience

  Discover in-house law: Explore what it means to work as an in-house legal professional and how legal teams support safe, secure and compliant operations.

  Explore different areas of law: Gain insight into areas including commercial, regulatory, employment, planning and real estate law, seeing how different types of legal expertise can be applied within one organisation.

  Understand legal decision-making: Explore how legal guidance contributes to business decisions and learn how lawyers advise on areas including contracts, risk, policy and governance.

  Meet legal and corporate professionals: Meet people working across legal, company secretarial, corporate investigations, conduct and compliance and gain insight into the variety of work undertaken within these areas.

  Put your learning into practice: Work through examples and project-based activities to build your understanding of legal practice at Sellafield. At the end of the placement, you’ll be invited to present your work to Sellafield’s General Counsel.

• What you’ll gain

  Legal work experience gives you the opportunity to develop skills that are valuable within law and across many other professional careers.

  During your week, you’ll have opportunities to develop:

  • Critical thinking and reasoning, considering information from different perspectives
  • Attention to detail
  • Communication, including written communication
  • Research and organisation
  • Problem-solving
  • Professional awareness
  • Understanding of confidentiality in a professional environment
  • Presentation skills, through sharing your project work at the end of the experience

  Most importantly, you’ll gain a better understanding of what working in law can actually look like and whether a legal career could be right for you.

• Careers you could explore

  There isn’t just one type of career in law.

  Your experience will introduce you to different areas of legal and corporate work and help you understand how legal expertise is used within a complex organisation.

  You could discover an interest in areas including:

  • Commercial law
  • Regulatory law
  • Employment law
  • Planning and real estate
  • Company secretarial work
  • Corporate investigations
  • Conduct and compliance

  Your experience can also help you explore whether studying law or pursuing future professional or business pathways is something you’d like to consider.

• Is Legal Work Experience for me?

  This programme could be right for you if you:

  • Are considering studying law or pursuing a legal career
  • Enjoy reading, researching and analysing information
  • Like understanding how and why decisions are made
  • Are interested in rules, regulations and how they are applied
  • Enjoy considering different perspectives
  • Pay attention to detail
  • Want to develop your written and verbal communication
  • Are interested in experiencing a professional legal environment

  You don’t need to know which area of law interests you. This experience gives you the opportunity to explore different aspects of legal practice, ask questions and discover whether a career in law could be right for you.

Ready to explore Legal?