Legal Profession Task Group seeks new members
AGCAS's Legal Profession Task Group has vacancies for two new members. Membership of the group offers the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the work of a key AGCAS task group.
The roles involve attending meetings and networking with a variety of representatives from the professional bodies who represent and regulate the legal profession.
The roles available are:
• Secretary - This is a key role, which involves liaising closely with the Chair of the task group in order to organise the task group's meetings, book meeting rooms and refreshments, send out invites to careers advisers and others who attend the meetings (representatives from professional and employer bodies and from publisher/website partners). It is also the secretary’s responsibility to take the minutes at meetings and ensure that they are circulated within one month of the meeting taking place.
• Law Society/Solicitors Regulation Authority Liaison - This role involves liaising with relevant staff at the representative and regulatory bodies for the solicitors' profession and gathering relevant careers-related information pertaining to the training and recruitment of solicitors and ensuring that the views of careers advisers working with prospective and current law students are represented to those bodies at relevant consultations. The role also involves reporting on developments at task group meetings and producing a brief report of activities, which will support the group's annual bid for AGCAS funding.
These roles are open to any careers adviser working within an AGCAS member service. You should preferably have substantial experience of working with and advising law students at undergraduate or postgraduate level, although others who are new to the role/caseload will also be considered.
To apply, send a personal statement (no more than one side of A4), outlining your relevant experience, skills and qualities and why you are interested in the role, to Nick Touati, Chair of the Legal Profession Task Group, by Friday 15 April.
If you'd like to find out more about these roles, contact Nick on 0161 247 3500 (direct line) or via email.