{"id":326,"date":"2022-01-27T00:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/?p=326"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:31:34","slug":"key-trends-in-the-legal-market-to-know-about-before-you-apply-to-work-in-a-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/key-trends-in-the-legal-market-to-know-about-before-you-apply-to-work-in-a-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Key trends in the legal market to know about before you apply to work in a law firm."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canterbury Christ Church University,<em>&nbsp;Law School, is welcoming Mr Craig Sharpe to talk on key trends in the Legal Market and their relevance to Law Students<\/em> on Monday 31st at 3-5 pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"329\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/?attachment_id=329\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/689\/2022\/01\/Dark-Blue-and-Yellow-Professional-Podcast-Talk-Instagram-Post.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Sharpe is a Marketing Consultant at London law firm Axiom DWFM. Craig has over 15 years of experience as a lawyer before he changed career in 2010 to become a marketing consultant for law firms. This unusual career path means Craig is well placed to explain how major and ongoing changes in the legal services market are resulting in law firms changing how they recruit and what they look for in applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig is likely to be joined by a lawyer from Axiom DWFM who will talk about their experience of working in the firm and the legal market trends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be an opportunity for a student who attends the event and enters into a post-event activity to get some work experience at Axiom DWFM. To find out more about Axiom DWFM visit their website at  <a href=\"https:\/\/axiomdwfm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/axiomdwfm.com\/\">https:\/\/axiomdwfm.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Service v profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. The internet and marketing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Risk sharing and commercial awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. The different law firm models, types and sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. You\u2019re hired<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Try before you buy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Insights from the legal job market<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Confidence is good arrogance is bad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Why adaptability is essential<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Harnessing your skillset in ways you don\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> You can join the session via the following link <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu.bbcollab.com%2Fguest%2F0e1bd06985f94c748898ca69d323a225&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cpetrena.notice%40canterbury.ac.uk%7C0895173d6fd2419e3dd508d9e15da375%7C0320b2da22dd4dab8c216e644ba14f13%7C0%7C0%7C637788614669783719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=uQSjxwHDxn%2BiH3KkjYWUjaNELHfTgVbtRVQrMFmppZw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" title=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu.bbcollab.com%2Fguest%2F0e1bd06985f94c748898ca69d323a225&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cpetrena.notice%40canterbury.ac.uk%7C0895173d6fd2419e3dd508d9e15da375%7C0320b2da22dd4dab8c216e644ba14f13%7C0%7C0%7C637788614669783719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=uQSjxwHDxn%2BiH3KkjYWUjaNELHfTgVbtRVQrMFmppZw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu.bbcollab.com%2Fguest%2F0e1bd06985f94c748898ca69d323a225&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cpetrena.notice%40canterbury.ac.uk%7C0895173d6fd2419e3dd508d9e15da375%7C0320b2da22dd4dab8c216e644ba14f13%7C0%7C0%7C637788614669783719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=uQSjxwHDxn%2BiH3KkjYWUjaNELHfTgVbtRVQrMFmppZw%3D&amp;reserved=0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information please contact law@canterbury.ac.uk <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canterbury Christ Church University,&nbsp;Law School, is welcoming Mr Craig Sharpe to talk on key trends in the Legal Market and their relevance to Law Students on Monday 31st at 3-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-tips","category-law-events","category-reflection"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Petrena Notice","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"Canterbury Christ Church University,&nbsp;Law School, is welcoming Mr Craig Sharpe to talk on key trends in the Legal Market and their relevance to Law Students on Monday 31st at 3-5 [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/lawandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}