Volunteer lawyers needed as mentors

Mar 11 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL John Moores University’s Legal Practice Course (LPC) is appealing for volunteers for its solicitor mentor scheme.

Students are placed with a firm or solicitor for a maximum two-day period, doing work in a field of law in which the student has an interest.

More than 50 local solicitors took part last year. Students were placed with commercial firms, high street firms, in-house solicitors, magistrates, local authorities and welfare rights agencies.

Carol Maginn, of the LPC, said: “For our students, it is an invaluable opportunity to see the law they are studying in practice. Whether it’s sitting in on a client interview, or conference with counsel, or just shadowing the solicitor in their day-to-day work, students find it hugely rewarding.