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Introduction to Law

Location: United States
Experience Type: Projects (Unpaid)
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Work with PRIME’s teams to approach complex legal tasks and challenges

Welcome to PRIME’s Legal Job Simulation. 

Everyone can access law, you included. 

PRIME and our member firms are actively trying to ensure that everyone who wants to enter the world of law has an equal chance to do so. Our firms offer legal work experience to young people from less privileged backgrounds and have now come together to help create PRIME’s Legal Job Simulation. 

This programme will give you an insight into what a career in law might look like, starting by exploring the difference between barristers and solicitors. 

You will get to experience what real lawyers do every day, working on tasks that introduce you to different practice areas, including commercial and criminal law. You will also build legal skills and gain an understanding of what it means to be a lawyer, helping you to decide if this is the career for you. 

You don’t need to have any prior legal experience to complete our programme and you can do so at your own pace to fit around your other school and home commitments. 

The programme has been designed for students who meet PRIME’s Eligibility Criteria but is open to all. 

You can learn more about PRIME and our member firms here and you can follow PRIME on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here!
 

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 8-9 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Research and understand the UK’s legal systems and routes into them
    Research and answer questions on the UK’s legal systems to gain a better understanding of them and how to break into the sector.

    • Research
    • Critical Thinking
    • Industry Insight
  • Draft an email highlighting the key issues from legal due diligence
    Assist with transactional work on a corporate acquisition by reviewing the Target’s shareholder documentation and a due diligence report and capture the key issues in an email.

    • Due Diligence
    • Legal Analysis
    • Attention to Detail
  • Advise a client on including an arbitration clause
    Advise a client on the merits and drawbacks of arbitration as a choice of dispute resolution over litigation and whether to include an arbitration clause in their agreement.

    • Dispute Resolution
    • Legal Research
    • Critical Thinking
  • Brief your supervisor on risks to your client under the Bribery Act
    Analyse the facts as set out by your client and determine the risks they face under the Bribery Act and the additional questions you will need to ask.

    • Legal Analysis
    • Fact Analysis
    • Email Drafting & Communication
  • Review a commercial lease for a charity
    Review a commercial lease from the perspective of your client and negotiate certain provisions on their behalf.

    • Lease Review
    • Commercial Negotiation
    • Legal Research
  • Finish Line

Experience Information

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Contact & Location

Phone
(610) 328–8352
Email
career@swarthmore.edu
Address

500 College Ave.
Parrish Hall 135
Swarthmore, PA 19081

Career Service Hours

M Monday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
T Tuesday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
W Wednesday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
TH Thursday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
F Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Office closed daily from 12–1pm for lunch.

Meet the Team

Claire Klieger Meet Claire Klieger
Erin Massey Meet Erin Massey
Kristie Beucler Meet Kristie Beucler
Jennifer Barrington Meet Jennifer Barrington
Pattie Kim-Keefer Meet Pattie Kim-Keefer
Kelly Dougherty Meet Kelly Dougherty
Lisa Maginnis Meet Lisa Maginnis
Andres Perez Correa '22 Meet Andres Perez Correa '22
(610) 328–8352
career@swarthmore.edu

500 College Ave.
Parrish Hall 135
Swarthmore, PA 19081

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