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Law Firm Legal Research – What Trainees Need to Know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2010

Caroline Tuckwell
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Abstract

At large City firm Herbert Smith, the legal research training programme for trainee solicitors is taken very seriously and includes a compulsory training course in their first two weeks, followed by research exercises and further courses which have been carefully designed in association with the partners to ensure that trainees qualify with excellent legal research skills.

Keywords

law firmslegal researchtrainee solicitors
Type
Legal Research Skills – Life-long Learning?
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 108 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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Footnote

1 A seat is the term applied to the division of a trainee solicitor's training into four six-month periods in different departments. At Herbert Smith, trainees have compulsory six-month periods in corporate and litigation but can choose the other two.