This year’s STEM Future Lawyers panel discussion and law fair takes place virtually from 3-5pm on Tuesday 4 November.
The flagship virtual event for science, technology, engineering and maths students interested in legal careers features lawyers from science backgrounds and graduate recruitment teams from leading London-based global law firms.
It commences with a panel discussion with lawyers from Bird & Bird, Bristows, Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Speakers from these firms will share how they became lawyers after originally studying STEM subjects. They will also explain how their STEM backgrounds have helped them in their legal careers.
As the legal profession embraces new technology to become more efficient, those who possess a combination of legal and tech skills have found themselves in high demand. Over the years ahead, these multi-skilled STEM lawyers will have an important role to play as law firms re-imagine their traditional structures to accommodate artificial intelligence and other lawtech.
At the same time, legal practice areas like intellectual property and patents have a long history of attracting science graduates interested in the law, whose specialist knowledge gives them an edge.
After the panel discussion there will be a virtual law fair with the above firms, featuring a host of trainee solicitors with STEM backgrounds who will be on hand to chat informally about their career journeys to date.
We invite all STEM students and graduates who are interested in a career in law to apply to attend below. You’ll be asked to submit two questions for the panel.