Summer Student Review

The placement was brilliantly structured, informative and with plenty of 'real work' for us to be getting involved in. The firm takes great pride in the training of its employees and this is greatly reflected in the quality of the three-week summer scheme. Everyone in the firm was eager to get to know about us and to get us involved.

The great thing about Nabarro's placement is that you are in one department for the whole three weeks, which means that you have the chance to build real working relationships with your department. I was given trainee-level work and received insightful feedback when something could have been improved upon. Even if I wasn't doing work for people, everyone was already ready to have a chat and discuss the latest news with me.

You effectively have two supervisors: an associate and a trainee. Both were always ready to talk/answer any questions (no question was ever too stupid)/give me good work/or even just take me out for lunch!

We were kept very busy throughout the placement with departmental work and Project Nabarro to balance; however, the life of a trainee solicitor will never be quiet, so I think the amount of work given to us was a genuine and honest reflection of the pace of the careers we will be entering into.

I was given certain tasks such as taking the only file note on a client meeting and presenting it to the partner, or writing an informative note, which would eventually be sent straight to the client, so responsibility was high. However, this went hand in hand with good supervision and someone would always be there to answer questions and correct my (many) errors! I would say there was a good deal of responsibility for the level that we were at.

Experience in any office is good for general life and inter-personal skills. Nabarro's session on 'how to network' I think was very insightful and the presentations we had to do were all great experiences at how to handle oneself in a professional atmosphere and they were brilliant confidence boosters.

As said adove, everyone was really friendly, supportive and welcoming.

Very - we were kept informed of everything we would be doing, even before starting the placement!

Unsure as of yet, but fingers are tightly crossed!

If I wasn't out to lunch with someone from my department, then there was always a fellow vac schemer to join for lunch. There were a lot of socials organised for us as well during the scheme, so we spent a good deal of time getting to know each other outside of the office too.

Better than being in the City possibly, but still London prices!

Great - Holborn is brilliant for theatre/museums/restaurants. Soho, only a few minutes away, has some great bars and music venues as well as restuarants. Covent Garden is just on your door step as well.

The firm does have its own sports clubs, but we were kept very busy with our ogranised social events and so did not have much time to get involved. We were encouraged to do so though if we wanted to.